I thought, "I will wipe them out; {I will make people forget they ever existed}."

There is a thing [of] which it is said, "Look at this! This is new!" [But] it already existed in ages past before us.

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.'

And now, Father, you glorify me {at your side} with the glory that I had {at your side} before the world existed.

For [when] they maintain this, it escapes [their] notice that the heavens existed long ago and the earth held together out of water and through water by the word of God,

by means of which things the world that existed at that time was destroyed [by] being inundated with water.

"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."