97 Bible Verses about Beginning

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; all those who practice it have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.

Harness the steeds to the chariots, inhabitants of Lachish; it was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion, for in you were found the transgressions of Israel.

And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.

And though your beginning was small, your latter days will be very great.

"My manner of life from my youth, spent from the beginning among my own nation and in Jerusalem, is known by all the Jews.

He is without father or mother or genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God he continues a priest forever.

In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight, is the LORD's Passover.

So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outskirts of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, when they had just set the watch. And they blew the trumpets and smashed the jars that were in their hands.

In the four hundred and eightieth year after the people of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build the house of the LORD.

Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to David his father, at the place that David had appointed, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

It was the day of Preparation, and the Sabbath was beginning.

Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment that you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have heard.

"The LORD possessed me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of old. Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth.

And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God.

Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am."

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities--all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked upon and have touched with our hands, concerning the word of life--

I am writing to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, children, because you know the Father. I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love

But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory.

But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as the first fruits to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth.

who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,

in hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

And, "You, Lord, laid the foundation of the earth in the beginning, and the heavens are the work of your hands;

Of old you laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands.

Do you not know? Do you not hear? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?

"At that time shall arise Michael, the great prince who has charge of your people. And there shall be a time of trouble, such as never has been since there was a nation till that time. But at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone whose name shall be found written in the book.

For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be.

For in those days there will be such tribulation as has not been from the beginning of the creation that God created until now, and never will be.

He answered, "Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, 'Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate."

But from the beginning of creation, 'God made them male and female.' 'Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.' So they are no longer two but one flesh.read more.
What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate."

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

"This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you.

And I will appoint a place for my people Israel and will plant them, so that they may dwell in their own place and be disturbed no more. And violent men shall afflict them no more, as formerly,

And I will appoint a place for my people Israel and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place and be disturbed no more. And violent men shall waste them no more, as formerly,

For thus says the Lord GOD: "My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there, and the Assyrian oppressed them for nothing.

"Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the LORD, "I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed me in the wilderness, in a land not sown. Israel was holy to the LORD, the firstfruits of his harvest. All who ate of it incurred guilt; disaster came upon them, declares the LORD."

"Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her. And there I will give her her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. And there she shall answer as in the days of her youth, as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt.

And I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city."

"Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.

who confirms the word of his servant and fulfills the counsel of his messengers, who says of Jerusalem, 'She shall be inhabited,' and of the cities of Judah, 'They shall be built, and I will raise up their ruins';

They shall build up the ancient ruins; they shall raise up the former devastations; they shall repair the ruined cities, the devastations of many generations.

I will restore the fortunes of Judah and the fortunes of Israel, and rebuild them as they were at first. I will cleanse them from all the guilt of their sin against me, and I will forgive all the guilt of their sin and rebellion against me. And this city shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and a glory before all the nations of the earth who shall hear of all the good that I do for them. They shall fear and tremble because of all the good and all the prosperity I provide for it.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness,"has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

"For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind.

"For as the new heavens and the new earth that I make shall remain before me, says the LORD, so shall your offspring and your name remain.

But according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.

And I told them of the hand of my God that had been upon me for good, and also of the words that the king had spoken to me. And they said, "Let us rise up and build."So they strengthened their hands for the good work.

And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people. And they came and worked on the house of the LORD of hosts, their God,

From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand."

The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

Jesus, when he began his ministry, was about thirty years of age, being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli,

In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach,

For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are but the beginning of the birth pains.

For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places; there will be famines. These are but the beginning of the birth pains.

Now when these things begin to take place, straighten up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near."

And he searched, beginning with the eldest and ending with the youngest. And the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.

When Moses had finished writing the words of this law in a book to the very end,

On that day I will fulfill against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from beginning to end.

And when evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, 'Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last, up to the first.'

An inheritance gained hastily in the beginning will not be blessed in the end.

For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.

Accordingly, we urged Titus that as he had started, so he should complete among you this act of grace.

Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?

For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.

Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.

Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the LORD of hosts: "I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god.

And he said to me, "It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment.

Who has performed and done this, calling the generations from the beginning? I, the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.

"Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel, whom I called! I am he; I am the first, and I am the last.

When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand on me, saying, "Fear not, I am the first and the last,

"And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: 'The words of the first and the last, who died and came to life.

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end."

You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.