'Beginning' in the Bible
He answered them, "Haven't you read that the one who made them at the beginning "made them male and female'
He told them, "It was because of your hardness of heart that Moses allowed you to divorce your wives. But from the beginning it was not this way.
"When evening came, the owner of the vineyard told his manager, "Call the workers and give them their wages, beginning with the last and ending with the first.'
But all these things are only the beginning of the birth pains."
because at that time there will be great suffering, the kind that hasn't happened from the beginning of the world until now and certainly won't ever happen again.
This is the beginning of the gospel of Jesus the Messiah, the Son of God.
But from the beginning of creation, "God made them male and female.'
because nation will rise up in arms against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes and famines in various places. These things are only the beginning of the birth pains."
because those days will be a time of suffering, a kind that has not happened from the beginning of God's creation until now, and certainly will never happen again.
just as they were passed down to us by those who had been eyewitnesses and servants of the word from the beginning,
I, too, have carefully investigated everything from the beginning and have decided to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus,
It was the Preparation Day, and the Sabbath was just beginning.
Then, beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them all the passages of Scripture about himself.
and then repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
In the beginning, the Word existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was God.
But there are some among you who don't believe..." - because Jesus knew from the beginning those who weren't believing, as well as the one who would betray him.
When they heard this, they went away one by one, beginning with the oldest, and he was left alone with the woman standing there.
You belong to your father the Devil, and you want to carry out the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and has never stood for truth, since there is no truth in him. Whenever he tells a lie, he speaks in character, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
You will testify also, because you have been with me from the beginning.
But I've told you this, so that when the time comes you'll remember that I told you about them. I didn't tell you this in the beginning, because I was still with you."
In my first book, Theophilus, I wrote about everything Jesus did and taught from the beginning,
beginning when he was baptized by John until the day he was taken up from us. Therefore, someone like this must become a witness with us to his resurrection."
You know what happened throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John preached.
Are we beginning to recommend ourselves again? Unlike some people, we do not need letters of recommendation to you or from you, do we?
He is also the head of the body, which is the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he himself might have first place in everything.
And, "In the beginning, Lord, you laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands.
by saying, "What happened to the Messiah's promise to return? Ever since our ancestors died, everything continues as it did from the beginning of creation."
What existed from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we observed and touched with our own hands this is the Word of life!
Dear friends, I am not writing to you a new commandment, but an old commandment that you have had from the beginning. This old commandment is the word you have heard.
I am writing to you, fathers, because you have known the one who has existed from the beginning. I am writing to you, young people, because you have overcome the evil one.
I have written to you, little children, because you have known the Father. I have written to you, fathers, because you have known the one who has existed from the beginning. I have written to you, young people, because you are strong and because God's word remains in you and you have overcome the evil one.
What you have heard from the beginning must abide in you. If what you have heard from the beginning abides in you, you will also abide in the Son and in the Father.
The person who practices sin belongs to the evil one, because the Devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason that the Son of God was revealed was to destroy what the Devil has been doing.
This is the message that you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another.
Dear lady, I am now requesting of you that we all continue to love one another. It is not as though I am writing to give you a new commandment, but one that we have had from the beginning.
And this is what demonstrates love: that we live according to God's commandments. Just as you have heard from the beginning what he commanded, you must live by it.
Then he told me, "It has happened! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will freely give a drink from the spring of the water of life to the one who is thirsty.
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.