'Beginning' in the Bible

But when he saw the strength of the wind, he was afraid. And beginning to sink he cried out, “Lord, save me!”

“Haven’t you read,” He replied, “that He who created them in the beginning made them male and female,”

He told them, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because of the hardness of your hearts. But it was not like that from the beginning.

All these events are the beginning of birth pains.

For at that time there will be great tribulation, the kind that hasn’t taken place from the beginning of the world until now and never will again!

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

But from the beginning of creation God made them male and female.

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

For those will be days of tribulation, the kind that hasn’t been from the beginning of the world, which God created, until now and never will be again!

Then beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He interpreted for them the things concerning Himself in all the Scriptures.

and repentance for forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in His name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

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

He was with God in the beginning.

But there are some among you who don’t believe.” (For Jesus knew from the beginning those who would not believe and the one who would betray Him.)

“Who are You?” they questioned.“Precisely what I’ve been telling you from the very beginning,” Jesus told them.

You are of your father the Devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of liars.

You also will testify, because you have been with Me from the beginning.

But I have told you these things so that when their time comes you may remember I told them to you. I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.

beginning from the baptism of John until the day He was taken up from us—from among these, it is necessary that one become a witness with us of His resurrection.”

Heaven must welcome Him until the times of the restoration of all things, which God spoke about by the mouth of His holy prophets from the beginning.

So Philip proceeded to tell him the good news about Jesus, beginning from that Scripture.

You know the events that took place throughout Judea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism that John preached:

“As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit came down on them, just as on us at the beginning.

“All the Jews know my way of life from my youth, which was spent from the beginning among my own nation and in Jerusalem.

Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, like some, letters of recommendation to you or from you?

Are you so foolish? After beginning with the Spirit, are you now going to be made complete by the flesh?

He is also the head of the body, the church;He is the beginning,the firstborn from the dead,so that He might come to havefirst place in everything.

But we must always thank God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because from the beginning God has chosen you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and through belief in the truth.

And:In the beginning, Lord,You established the earth,and the heavens are the works of Your hands;

without father, mother, or genealogy,having neither beginning of days nor end of life,but resembling the Son of God—remains a priest forever.

saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? Ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they have been since the beginning of creation.”

What was from the beginning,what we have heard,what we have seen with our eyes,what we have observedand have touched with our hands,concerning the Word of life—

Dear friends, I am not writing you a new command but an old command that you have had from the beginning. The old command is the message you have heard.

I am writing to you, fathers,because you have come to knowthe One who is from the beginning.I am writing to you, young men,because you have had victory over the evil one.

I have written to you, children,because you have come to know the Father.I have written to you, fathers,because you have come to knowthe One who is from the beginning.I have written to you, young men,because you are strong,God’s word remains in you,and you have had victory over the evil one.

What you have heard from the beginning must remain in you. If what you have heard from the beginning remains in you, then you will remain in the Son and in the Father.

The one who commits sin is of the Devil, for the Devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God was revealed for this purpose: to destroy the Devil’s works.

For this is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another,

So now I urge you, dear lady—not as if I were writing you a new command, but one we have had from the beginning—that we love one another.

And this is love: that we walk according to His commands. This is the command as you have heard it from the beginning: you must walk in love.

And He said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give water as a gift to the thirsty from the spring of life.

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.