'Beginning' in the Bible
But [when he] saw the strong wind, he was afraid. And beginning to sink, he cried out, saying, "Lord, save me!"
And he answered [and] said, "Have you not read that the one who created [them] from the beginning made them male and female
He said to them, "Moses, with reference to your hardness of heart, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not like this.
And [when] evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, 'Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last up to the first.'
But all these [things] [are] the beginning of birth pains.
For at that time there will be great tribulation, such as has not happened from the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will happen.
But from the beginning of creation 'he 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 be famines. These [things] [are] the beginning of birth pains.
For [in] those days there will be tribulation of such a kind as has not happened from the beginning of the creation that God created until now, and never will happen.
just as those who were eyewitnesses and servants of the word from the beginning passed on to us,
it seemed best to me also--[because I] have followed all [things] carefully from the beginning--to write [them] down in orderly sequence for you, most excellent Theophilus,
But they insisted, saying, "He incites the people, teaching throughout the whole of Judea and beginning from Galilee as far as here."
And beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he interpreted to them the things concerning himself in all the scriptures.
and repentance and the 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.
This beginning of signs Jesus performed at Cana in Galilee, and revealed 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 who would betray him.)
Now [when they] heard [it], being convicted by their conscience, they began to depart, one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone--and the woman who was in [their] midst.
So they began to say to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them, "{What} I have been saying to you [from] the beginning.
You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father! That one was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand firm in the truth, because truth is not in him. Whenever he speaks the lie, he speaks from his own [nature], because he is a liar and the father {of lies}.
And you also will testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.
beginning from the baptism of John until the day [on] which he was taken up from us--one of these [men] must become a witness of his resurrection together with us."
So Philip opened his mouth and beginning from this scripture, proclaimed the good news to him [about] Jesus.
you know the thing that happened throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee, after the baptism that John proclaimed:
And [as] I was beginning to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, just as also on us at the beginning.
And demanding lights, he rushed in and, {beginning to tremble}, fell down at the feet of Paul and Silas.
"Now all the Jews know my manner of life from [my] youth, that had taken place from the beginning among my [own] people and in Jerusalem,
Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or [do we], like some, need letters of recommendation to you or from you?
Now you also know, Philippians, that at the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving except you alone,
and he himself is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he himself may become first in everything,
And, "You, Lord, laid the foundation of the earth in the beginning, and the heavens are the works of your hands;
how will we escape [if we] neglect so great a salvation which had [its] beginning [when it] was spoken through the Lord [and] was confirmed to us by those who heard,
For we have become partners of Christ, if indeed we hold fast the beginning of [our] commitment steadfast until the end,
For indeed, [although you] ought to be teachers {by this time}, you have need of someone to teach you again the beginning elements of the oracles of God, and {you have need of} milk, not solid food.
without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God--he remains a priest for all time.
and saying, "Where is the promise of his coming? For {ever since} the fathers fell asleep, all [things] have continued just as they have been 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 our hands have touched, concerning the word of life--
Dear friends, 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 message which you have heard.
I am writing to you, fathers, because you have known the [One who is] from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have conquered the evil one.
I have written to you, children, because you have known the Father. I have written to you, fathers, because you have known the [One who is] from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God resides in you, and you have conquered the evil one.
[As for] you, what you have heard from the beginning must remain in you. If what you have heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.
The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. For this [reason] the Son of God was revealed: in order to destroy the works of the devil.
For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning: that we should love one another,
And now I ask you, lady (not as [if I were] writing a new commandment to you, but [one] that we have had from the beginning), that we should 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, so that you should walk in it.
And he said to me, "It is done! I [am] the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the one who is thirsty I will give [water] from the spring of the water of life freely.
I [am] the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end."