'Beginning' in the Bible
He answered, "Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator made them male and female,
Jesus said to them, "Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because of your hard hearts, but from the beginning it was not this way.
For then there will be great suffering unlike anything that has happened from the beginning of the world until now, or ever will happen.
The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
But from the beginning of creation he made them male and female.
For nation will rise up in arms against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places, and there will be famines. These are but the beginning of birth pains.
For in those days there will be suffering unlike anything that has happened from the beginning of the creation that God created until now, or ever will happen.
like the accounts passed on to us by those who were eyewitnesses and servants of the word from the beginning.
So it seemed good to me as well, because I have followed all things carefully from the beginning, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus,
so that this generation may be held accountable for the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the beginning of the world,
It was the day of preparation and the Sabbath was beginning.
Then beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them the things written about himself in all the scriptures.
and repentance for the forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was fully God.
But there are some of you who do not believe." (For Jesus had already known from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.)
So they said to him, "Who are you?" Jesus replied, "What I have told you from the beginning.
You people are from your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he speaks according to 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.
But I have told you these things so that when their time comes, you will remember that I told you about them. "I did not tell you these things from the beginning because I was with you.
beginning from his baptism by John until the day he was taken up from us -- one of these must become a witness of his resurrection together with us."
So Philip started speaking, and beginning with this scripture proclaimed the good news about Jesus to him.
you know what happened throughout Judea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism that John announced:
Then as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as he did on us at the beginning.
Now all the Jews know the way I lived from my youth, spending my life from the beginning among my own people and in Jerusalem.
Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? We don't need letters of recommendation to you or from you as some other people do, do we?
And as you Philippians know, at the beginning of my gospel ministry, when I left Macedonia, no church shared with me in this matter of giving and receiving except you alone.
He is the head of the body, the church, as well as the beginning, the firstborn from among the dead, so that he himself may become first in all things.
But we ought to thank God always for you, brothers and sisters loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth.
And, "You founded the earth in the beginning, Lord, and the heavens are the works of your hands.
For though you should in fact be teachers by this time, you need someone to teach you the beginning elements of God's utterances. You have gone back to needing milk, not solid food.
Without father, without mother, without genealogy, he has neither beginning of days nor end of life but is like the son of God, and he remains a priest for all time.
and saying, "Where is his promised return? For ever since our ancestors died, all things have continued as they were from the beginning of creation."
This is what we proclaim to you: 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 word that you have already heard.
I am writing to you, fathers, that you have known him who has been from the beginning. I am writing to you, young people, that you have conquered the evil one.
I have written to you, children, that you have known the Father. I have written to you, fathers, that you have known him who has been from the beginning. I have written to you, young people, that 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 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 purpose the Son of God was revealed: to destroy the works of the devil.
For this is the gospel message that you have heard from the beginning: that we should love one another,
But now I ask you, lady (not as if I were writing a new commandment to you, but the one we have had from the beginning), that we love one another.
(Now this is love: that we walk according to his commandments.) This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning; thus you should walk in it.
Now Enoch, the seventh in descent beginning with Adam, even prophesied of them, saying, "Look! The Lord is coming with thousands and thousands of his holy ones,
He also 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 free of charge from the spring of the water of life.
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end!)