97 Bible Verses about Beginning

The beginning of wisdom is fear of Jehovah, Good understanding have all doing them, His praise is standing for ever!

Fear of Jehovah is a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised!

The commencement of wisdom is the fear of Jehovah, And a knowledge of the Holy Ones is understanding.

Bind the chariot to a swift beast, O inhabitant of Lachish, The beginning of sin is she to the daughter of Zion, For in thee have been found the transgressions of Israel.

And himself is the head of the body -- the assembly -- who is a beginning, a first-born out of the dead, that he might become in all things -- himself -- first,

And thy beginning hath been small, And thy latter end is very great.

The manner of my life then, indeed, from youth -- which from the beginning was among my nation, in Jerusalem -- know do all the Jews,

without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, and being made like to the Son of God, doth remain a priest continually.

in the first month, on the fourteenth of the month, between the evenings, is the passover to Jehovah;

And Gideon cometh -- and the hundred men who are with him -- into the extremity of the camp, at the beginning of the middle watch (it hath only just confirmed the watchmen), and they blow with trumpets -- dashing in pieces also the pitchers which are in their hand;

And it cometh to pass, in the four hundred and eightieth year of the going out of the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt, in the fourth year -- in the month of Zif, it is the second month -- of the reigning of Solomon over Israel, that he buildeth the house for Jehovah.

And Solomon beginneth to build the house of Jehovah, in Jerusalem, in the mount of Moriah, where He appeared to David his father, in the place that David had prepared, in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite,

And the day was a preparation, and sabbath was approaching,

Brethren, a new command I write not to you, but an old command, that ye had from the beginning -- the old command is the word that ye heard from the beginning;

Jehovah possessed me -- the beginning of His way, Before His works since then. From the age I was anointed, from the first, From former states of the earth.

'And now, glorify me, Thou Father, with Thyself, with the glory that I had before the world was, with Thee;

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God; this one was in the beginning with God;

Jesus said to them, 'Verily, verily, I say to you, Before Abraham's coming -- I am;'

who is the image of the invisible God, first-born of all creation, because in him were the all things created, those in the heavens, and those upon the earth, those visible, and those invisible, whether thrones, whether lordships, whether principalities, whether authorities; all things through him, and for him, have been created, and himself is before all, and the all things in him have consisted.

That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we did behold, and our hands did handle, concerning the Word of the Life --

I write to you, fathers, because ye have known him who is from the beginning; I write to you, young men, because ye have overcome the evil. I write to you, little youths, because ye have known the Father: I did write to you, fathers, because ye have known him who is from the beginning; I did write to you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God in you doth remain, and ye have overcome the evil.

Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who did bless us in every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, according as He did choose us in him before the foundation of the world, for our being holy and unblemished before Him, in love,

but we speak the hidden wisdom of God in a secret, that God foreordained before the ages to our glory,

And we -- we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, beloved by the Lord, that God did choose you from the beginning to salvation, in sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth,

who did save us, and did call with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace, that was given to us in Christ Jesus, before the times of the ages,

upon hope of life age-during, which God, who doth not lie, did promise before times of ages,

In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth

and, 'Thou, at the beginning, Lord, the earth didst found, and a work of thy hands are the heavens;

Beforetime the earth Thou didst found, And the work of Thy hands are the heavens.

Do ye not know -- do ye not hear? Hath it not been declared from the first to you? Have ye not understood From the foundations of the earth?

'And at that time stand up doth Michael, the great head, who is standing up for the sons of thy people, and there hath been a time of distress, such as hath not been since there hath been a nation till that time, and at that time do thy people escape, every one who is found written in the book.

for there shall be then great tribulation, such as was not from the beginning of the world till now, no, nor may be.

for those days shall be tribulation, such as hath not been from the beginning of the creation that God created, till now, and may not be;

And he answering said to them, 'Did ye not read, that He who made them, from the beginning a male and a female made them, and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh? so that they are no more two, but one flesh; what therefore God did join together, let no man put asunder.'

but from the beginning of the creation, a male and a female God did make them; on this account shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh; so that they are no more two, but one flesh;read more.
what therefore God did join together, let not man put asunder.'

And God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them.

therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.

This month is to you the chief of months -- it is the first to you of the months of the year;

and I have appointed a place for My people, for Israel, and have planted it, and it hath tabernacled in its place, and it is not troubled any more, and the sons of perverseness do not add to afflict it any more, as in the beginning,

'And I have prepared a place for My people Israel, and planted it, and it hath dwelt in its place, and is not troubled any more, and the sons of perverseness add not to wear it out as at first,

For thus said the Lord Jehovah: 'To Egypt My people went down at first to sojourn there, And Asshur -- for nought he hath oppressed it.

'Go, and thou hast called in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus said Jehovah: I have remembered for thee The kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, Thy going after Me in a wilderness, in a land not sown. Holy is Israel to Jehovah, The first-fruit of His increase, All consuming him are guilty, Evil cometh in unto them, an affirmation of Jehovah.

Therefore, lo, I am enticing her, And have caused her to go to the wilderness, And I have spoken unto her heart, And given to her her vineyards from thence, And the valley of Achor for an opening of hope, And she hath responded there as in the days of her youth, And as in the day of her coming up out of the land of Egypt.

And I give back thy judges as at the first, And thy counsellors as in the beginning, After this thou art called, 'A city of righteousness -- a faithful city.'

Remember not former things, And ancient things consider not. Lo, I am doing a new thing, now it springeth up, Do ye not know it? Yea, I put in a wilderness a way, In a desolate place -- floods.

Confirming the word of His servant, The counsel of His messengers it perfecteth, Who is saying of Jerusalem, She is inhabited, And of cities of Judah, They shall be built, and her wastes I raise up,

And they have built the wastes of old, The desolations of the ancients they raise up, And they have renewed waste cities, The desolations of generation and generation.

And I have turned back the captivity of Judah, And the captivity of Israel, And I have built them as at the first, And cleansed them from all their iniquity, That they have sinned against Me, And I have pardoned all their iniquities, That they have sinned against Me, And that they transgressed against Me. And it hath been to Me for a name of joy, For praise, and for beauty, to all nations of the earth, Who hear of all the good that I am doing them, And they have feared, And they have trembled for all the good, And for all the peace, that I am doing to it.

so that if any one is in Christ -- he is a new creature; the old things did pass away, lo, become new have the all things.

because it is God who said, Out of darkness light is to shine, who did shine in our hearts, for the enlightening of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

For, lo, I am creating new heavens, and a new earth, And the former things are not remembered, Nor do they ascend on the heart.

For, as the new heavens and the new earth that I am making, Are standing before Me, An affirmation of Jehovah! So remain doth your seed and your name.

and for new heavens and a new earth according to His promise we do wait, in which righteousness doth dwell;

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth did pass away, and the sea is not any more;

And I declare to them the hand of my God that is good upon me, and also the words of the king that he said to me, and they say, 'Let us rise, and we have built;' and they strengthen their hands for good.

And Jehovah doth stir up the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people, and they come in, and do work in the house of Jehovah of Hosts their God,

From that time began Jesus to proclaim and to say, 'Reform ye, for come nigh hath the reign of the heavens.'

A beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ, Son of God.

And Jesus himself was beginning to be about thirty years of age, being, as was supposed, son of Joseph,

The former account, indeed, I made concerning all things, O Theophilus, that Jesus began both to do and to teach,

'For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places; and all these are the beginning of sorrows;

for nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles; beginnings of sorrows are these.

and these things beginning to happen bend yourselves back, and lift up your heads, because your redemption doth draw nigh.'

and he searcheth -- at the eldest he hath begun, and at the youngest he hath completed -- and the cup is found in the bag of Benjamin;

And it cometh to pass, when Moses finisheth to write the words of this law on a book till their completion,

In that day I establish unto Eli all that I have spoken unto his house, beginning and completing;

And evening having come, the lord of the vineyard saith to his steward, Call the workmen, and pay them the reward, having begun from the last -- unto the first.

An inheritance gotten wrongly at first, Even its latter end is not blessed.

for, if having escaped from the pollutions of the world, in the acknowledging of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and by these again being entangled, they have been overcome, become to them hath the last things worse than the first,

having been confident of this very thing, that He who did begin in you a good work, will perform it till a day of Jesus Christ,

so that we exhorted Titus, that, according as he did begin before, so also he may finish to you also this favour,

so thoughtless are ye! having begun in the Spirit, now in the flesh do ye end?

for partakers we have become of the Christ, if the beginning of the confidence unto the end we may hold fast,

remember, then, whence thou hast fallen, and reform, and the first works do; and if not, I come to thee quickly, and will remove thy lamp-stand from its place -- if thou mayest not reform;

Thus said Jehovah, king of Israel, And his Redeemer, Jehovah of Hosts: 'I am the first, and I the last, And besides Me there is no God.

and He said to me, 'It hath been done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End; I, to him who is thirsting, will give of the fountain of the water of the life freely;

Who hath wrought and done, Calling the generations from the first? I, Jehovah, the first, and with the last I am He.

Hearken to me, O Jacob, and Israel, My called one, I am He, I am first, and I am last;

And when I saw him, I did fall at his feet as dead, and he placed his right hand upon me, saying to me, 'Be not afraid; I am the First and the Last,

'And to the messenger of the assembly of the Smyrneans write: These things saith the First and the Last, who did become dead and did live;

I am the Alpha and the Omega -- the Beginning and End -- the First and the Last.

Ye are of a father -- the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar -- also his father.

he who is doing the sin, of the devil he is, because from the beginning the devil doth sin; for this was the Son of God manifested, that he may break up the works of the devil;