'Beginning' in the Bible

But seeing the wind, he became frightened, and beginning to sink, he cried out, “Lord, save me!”

And He answered and said, “Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female,

He *said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses permitted you to divorce your wives; but from the beginning it has not been this way.

“When evening came, the owner of the vineyard *said to his foreman, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last group to the first.’

But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pangs.

For then there will be a great tribulation, such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will.

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; there will also be famines. These things are merely the beginning of birth pangs.

For those days will be a time of tribulation such as has not occurred since the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never will.

just as they were handed down to us by those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word,

it seemed fitting for me as well, having investigated everything carefully from the beginning, to write it out for you in consecutive order, most excellent Theophilus;

Then beginning with Moses and with all the prophets, He explained to them the things concerning Himself in all the Scriptures.

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

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

He was in the beginning with God.

This beginning of His signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and manifested His glory, and His disciples believed in Him.

But there are some of you who do not believe.” For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who it was that would betray Him.

When they heard it, they began to go out one by one, beginning with the older ones, and He was left alone, and the woman, where she was, in the center of the court.

So they were saying to Him, “Who are You?” Jesus said to them, “What have I been saying to you from the beginning?

You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Since the beginning of time it has never been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a person born blind.

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

But these things I have spoken to you, so that when their hour comes, you may remember that I told you of them. These things I did not say to you at the beginning, because I was with you.

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

Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture he preached Jesus to him.

And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them just as He did upon us at the beginning.

“So then, all Jews know my manner of life from my youth up, which from the beginning was spent among my own nation and at Jerusalem;

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

So we urged Titus that as he had previously made a beginning, so he would also complete in you this gracious work as well.

He is also head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything.

But we should always give thanks to God for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth.

And,“You, Lord, in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth,And the heavens are the works of Your hands;

For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our assurance firm until the end,

Without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God, he remains a priest perpetually.

and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all continues just as it was from the beginning of creation.”

What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the Word of Life—

Beloved, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word which you have heard.

I am writing to you, fathers, because you know Him who has been from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I have written to you, children, because you know the Father.

I have written to you, fathers, because you know Him who has been from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

As for you, let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father.

the one who practices sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil.

For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;

Now I ask you, lady, not as though I were writing to you a new commandment, but the one which we have had from the beginning, that we love one another.

And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.

“To the angel of the church in Laodicea write:The Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God, says this:

Then He said to me, “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to the one who thirsts from the spring of the water of life without cost.

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