"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. The Word was with God, and the Word was God.

He existed in the beginning with God.

John told the truth about him when he cried out, "This is the person about whom I said, "The one who comes after me ranks higher than me, because he existed before me.'"

This is the one about whom I said, "After me comes a man who ranks above me, because he existed before me.'

"So now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world existed.

In God's own form existed he, and shared with God equality, deemed nothing needed grasping.

He himself existed before anything else did, and he holds all things together.

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.

But they deliberately ignore the fact that long ago the heavens existed and the earth was formed by God's word out of water and with water,

What existed from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we observed and touched with our own hands this is the Word of life!

I am writing to you, fathers, because you have known the one who has existed from the beginning. I am writing to you, young people, because you have overcome the evil one.

I have written to you, little children, because you have known the Father. I have written to you, fathers, because you have known the one who has existed from the beginning. I have written to you, young people, because you are strong and because God's word remains in you and you have overcome the evil one.

The beast that you saw existed once, but is no longer, and is going to crawl out of the bottomless pit and then proceed to its destruction. Those living on earth, whose names were not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world, will be surprised when they see the beast because it was, is no longer, and will come again.