"A voice was heard in Ramah: wailing and great mourning. Rachel was crying for her children. She refused to be comforted, because they no longer existed."

In the beginning the Word existed; and the Word was face to face with God; yea, the Word was God Himself.

This Word existed with God from the beginning [of time].

All things existed through him, and without him not one thing existed, which existed.

Life existed in Him; and that Life [was what] enlightened mankind [spiritually].

He was not the Light, but he existed that he might give testimony concerning the Light.

He was in the world, and the world existed through him, and the world knew him not.

John testified about him and cried out, saying, "This one was [he about] whom I said, 'The one who comes after me is ahead of me, because he existed before me.'"

This one is [the one] about whom I said, 'After me is coming a man who is ahead of me, because he existed before me.'

Then what if you were to see the Son of man ascending to where he formerly existed?

Then Jesus said to them, "I most solemnly say to you, I existed before Abraham was born."

Now, Father, glorify Me in Your presence
with that glory I had with You
before the world existed.

This tent was handed down to our forefathers and they brought it here with them when under Joshua they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before them, and it existed until the time of David.

(as it is written [in Scripture], “I have made you a father of many nations”) in the sight of Him in whom he believed, that is, God who gives life to the dead and calls into being that which does not exist.

For prior to the Law, sin actually existed in the world, but sin was not set down to man's account when there was no law.

But before faith [in Christ] became available, we [Jews] were kept in bondage under [condemnation for not obeying perfectly] the law of Moses. [This condition existed] until the faith [i.e., the Gospel message] was made known [to people].

who though he existed in the form of God did not regard equality with God as something to be grasped,

Who is the image of the unseen God and existed before all living things;

And He Himself existed and is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. [His is the controlling, cohesive force of the universe.]

I am reminded of your sincere faith, which first existed in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am convinced that this faith also exists in you.

The former priests, on the one hand, existed in greater numbers because they were prevented by death from continuing,

For they willfully ignore the fact that long ago the heavens existed and the earth that had been formed by God's command out of water and through water,

and that by the same means the world which then existed was destroyed by a deluge of water.

It is of what has existed from the beginning, of what we have listened to, of what we have seen with our own eyes, of what we have witnessed and touched with our own heads, it is concerning the Logos of Life that we are now writing.

and the Life [an aspect of His being] was manifested, and we have seen [it as eyewitnesses] and testify and declare to you [the Life], the eternal Life who was [already existing] with the Father and was [actually] made visible to us [His followers]—

I am writing to you, fathers, because you know Him who has existed from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have conquered the evil one. I write to you, little children, because you know the Father.

I write to you, fathers, because you know Him who has existed from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and God's message is always in your hearts, and you have conquered the evil one.

"You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, because you have created all [things], and because of your will they existed and were created."

saying, "We thank you, O Lord God Almighty, who exists [in the present] and who existed [in the past], because you have taken your great power and have begun to rule.

Then there were flashes of lightning, rumblings, and peals of thunder; then there was a great earthquake, an earthquake so great that none like it had ever been since man first existed on the earth.

The beast you saw once existed, but now does not, and [yet] is about to come up out of the pit and go to [his] destruction. And those people living on the earth, whose names have not been recorded in the book of life from the creation of the world, will be amazed when they see the beast, because he had once existed, but now does not, and yet will come [again].

And the beast that once existed, but now does not, is actually the eighth one [i.e., head/hill/king. See verse 9], and yet he belongs to the seven; and he will go to his destruction.

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away (vanished), and there is no longer any sea.