97 Bible Verses about Beginning

The respect and reverence for Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom. All who obey his commandments show good sense (insight) and understanding. His praise endures (continues) forever.

Respect for Jehovah (YHWH) is the beginning of knowledge (truth) (understanding) (wisdom). Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Respect for Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom. Knowledge of the holy One is understanding (discernment) (truth) (wisdom).

Bind the chariot to the swift steed, O lady inhabitant of Lachish! You were the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion. The transgressions of Israel were found in you.

He is the head of the body, the congregation. He is the beginning (commencement), the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence (first place).

Your beginnings will seem humble, so prosperous will your future be.

All the Jews know the way I first lived as a youth among my own nation at Jerusalem.

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

The Passover, celebrated to honor Jehovah, begins at sunset on the fourteenth day of the first month.

Gideon and the hundred men, who were with him, came to the outside of the camp. It was the beginning of the middle watch and they had just posted the new watch. They blew the trumpets, and broke the jars that were in their hands.

Solomon began work on the Temple. It was four hundred and eighty years after the people of Israel left Egypt, during the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the second month, the month of Ziv.

Solomon began to build Jehovah's Temple in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah. That is where Jehovah appeared to his father David. David had prepared the site on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

It was the day of the Preparation and the Sabbath was near.

Beloved, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment you had from the beginning. This old commandment is the word that you heard.

Jehovah created me in the beginning of his way, before his works of antiquity. I was made from long ago, before the earth began.

And now, Father, glorify me with you, 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 like God (God-like). The same was in the beginning with God.

Jesus said: I tell you the truth, I existed before Abraham was born! (Ex 3:14, 15)

He is the image (likeness) (representation) of the invisible God. He is the firstborn (Greek: prototokos: childbirth, offspring) of all creation. All things in the heavens and upon the earth where created through him. The things visible and invisible were created through him. Whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him. He is before all things, and through him all things originate.

We have heard that which was from the beginning. We have also seen it with our own eyes. We looked at it and touched it with our hands. It is the Word of life.

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

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. He has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places through Christ. He chose us through him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love.

We speak the wisdom of God in a secret, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the ages (generations and human entities) for our glory.

We always have to thank God for you, brothers. Jehovah loves you and we thank God that in the beginning he chose you to be saved through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth.

God has saved us and called us with a holy calling. This is not according to our works, but according to his purpose and grace that was granted us in Christ Jesus, from all eternity.

It is in hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before times eternal.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

And, You, Lord, in the beginning have laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of your hands. (Psalm 102:25)

You founded the earth of old. The heavens are the work of your hands.

Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told to you from the beginning? Have you not understood since the earth was founded?

At that time Michael will stand up. He is the great prince who stands for the children of your people. There will be a time of trouble that has not happened since the beginning of nations. Then your people will be delivered, every one whos name is found written in the book.

There will be great tribulation. It will be greater than any has ever been from the beginning of the world until now.

The tribulation in these days will be greater then there has ever been from the beginning of God's creation until now, and never shall be.

He answered: Have you not read, that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female? For this reason, a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife. The two shall become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What God has joined together, let no man pull apart (separate)!

God made male and female from the beginning of creation. For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and unite with his wife. The two shall become one flesh. They are no longer two, but one flesh.read more.
That which God has joined together let not man take apart (separate).

God created man in his own image. In the image of God he created him. He created male and female.

This is the reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife. They will become one flesh.

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

I will make a place for my people Israel and plant them there. They will dwell in their own place and not be troubled anymore. The wicked will not oppress them as they used to do

I will provide a place for my people Israel and will plant them so that they can have a home of their own and no longer be disturbed. Wicked people will not oppress them anymore, as they did at the beginning.

The Lord Jehovah says: At first my people went down to Egypt to live as aliens. Now Assyria has oppressed them.

Go and announce to Jerusalem, 'This is what Jehovah says: I remember the unfailing loyalty of your youth, the love you had for me as a bride. I remember how you followed me into the desert, into a land that was not sown (farmed). Israel was dedicated (consecrated) to Jehovah. It was the best part of the harvest. All who consumed it became guilty, and disaster struck them,' says Jehovah.

Therefore, behold, I will entice her into the wilderness, and speak kindly to her. I will give her vineyards from there and the valley of Achor for a door of hope. She will sing there as in the days of her youth and in the day when she came up out of Egypt.

I will give you judges like you had long ago, advisers like you had in the beginning. After that you will be called the Righteous City, the Faithful City.

Forget what happened in the past, and do not dwell on events from long ago. I am going to do something new. It is already happening. Do you recognize it? I will clear a way in the desert. I will make rivers on dry land.

I make the word of my servant come true. I accomplish the purpose of my messengers. I say of Jerusalem, 'She will be inhabited!' And I say to the cities of Judah, 'You will be rebuilt! I will make your ruins raise up.'

They will rebuild the ancient ruins. They will raise up the former devastations. And they will repair the ruined cities, the desolations of many generations.

I will restore Judah and Israel and rebuild them as they were before. I will cleanse them from all the sins that they have committed against me. I will forgive them for all the sins that they have committed against me and for rebelling against me. Jerusalem will be my source of joy, praise, and honor. All the nations on earth will hear about all the blessings that I will give to Jerusalem. They will be afraid and tremble because of all the prosperity that I will provide for it.'

If any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things have passed away. Behold, they have become new.

God said: Light will shine out of darkness. He shined in our hearts. He gave the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face (presence) ((person) of Jesus Christ.

For we are his workmanship created with Christ Jesus for good works. God prepared these works in advance that we should walk in them.

Behold! I WILL CREATE A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.

The new heaven and earth that I am about to make will continue in my presence, declares Jehovah. So your descendants and your name will also continue in my presence.

We look for new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness dwells. This is according to his promise.

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

Then I gave them an account of how the hand of my God was on me, helping me. I told them of the king's words he said to me. They said: Let us get to work on the building. So they made their hands strong for the good work.

Jehovah inspired everyone to work on the Temple. That included: Zerubbabel, the governor of Judah; Joshua, the High Priest, and all the people who had returned from the exile. They worked on the house of Jehovah of Hosts, their God.

From that time on Jesus preached this message: Repent for the Kingdom of heaven is near.

The beginning of the good news about Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

When Jesus began to teach he was about thirty years old. Jesus was the son of Joseph, the son of Heli,

The first account I composed, O Theophilus, was about all that Jesus did and taught,

Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in many places. These things are the beginning of birth pains (Greek: odin': in the throws of pain, such as childbirth).

Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places. There will be famines. These things are the beginning of pain (sorrow) (trouble).

When these things begin to happen lift up your heads because your redemption draws near.

Joseph's servant started searching the sacks. They began with the one that belonged to the oldest brother. When he came to Benjamin's sack, he found the cup.

Moses finished writing all the words of this Law in a book.

On that day I am going to do to Eli and his family everything I said from beginning to end.

When evening came, the lord of the vineyard said to his manager: 'Let the workers come and pay them from the last to the first.'

An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but in the end it will not be blessed.

After they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled and overcome; the last state is worse with them than the first.

I am confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ.

We exhorted Titus, that as he made a beginning before, so he would also complete in you this grace.

Are you so foolish? After starting in the Spirit, are you now made perfect (mature) in the flesh?

For we have become companions (partners) with Christ if indeed we hold the beginning of our firm trust to the end.

Think how far you have fallen! Turn from your sins (repent) and do what you did at first. If you do not turn from your sins, I will come to you and remove your lamp stand from its place.

This is what Jehovah, Israel's King and Redeemer, Jehovah of Hosts says: 'I AM THE FIRST AND I AM THE LAST-APART FROM ME THERE IS NO GOD!

And he said to me: It is done! I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to him who thirsts from the fountain of the water of life freely.

Who has done this and carried it through, calling forth the generations from the beginning? I, Jehovah have done this with the first of them and with the last. I am he!

Listen to me Jacob and Israel, my loved one. I am he, I am the first and I am the last.

When I saw him, I fell as dead at his feet. He laid his right hand on me and said: Do not fear. I am the first and the last:

To the angel of the congregation in Smyrna write: This is the message from the one who is the 'First and the Last', who died and came to life again.

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

You are from your father [Satan] the Devil (slanderer) (false accuser)! You want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning. He does not stand for the truth. There is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks his own lies. He is a liar and the father of the lie!

He who sins is of the devil. For the devil sinned from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was made known (manifested), that he might destroy the works of the devil.