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

John testified to Him and cried out, for this was the one who said, "The One who is coming after me has been put before me, because He existed before me."

This is the One about whom I said, 'After me there is coming a man who has already been put before me, because He existed before me.'

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

So now, Father, glorify me up there in your presence just as you did before the world existed.

Yes, He is the exact likeness of the unseen God, His first-born Son who existed before any created thing,

So He existed before all things, and through Him all things are held together.

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,

It is what existed from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our own eyes, what we have beheld, what our own hands have touched, about the very message of life --

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.

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.