97 Bible Verses about Beginning

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom;
all who follow His instructions have good insight.
His praise endures forever.

The fear of the Lord
is the beginning of knowledge;
fools despise wisdom and discipline.

“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,
and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

Harness the horses to the chariot,
you residents of Lachish.
This was the beginning of sin for Daughter Zion,
because Israel’s acts of rebellion can be traced to you.

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 have
first place in everything.

Then, even if your beginnings were modest,
your final days will be full of prosperity.

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

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

remains a priest forever.

The Passover to the Lord comes in the first month, at twilight on the fourteenth day of the month.

Gideon and the 100 men who were with him went to the outpost of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch after the sentries had been stationed. They blew their trumpets and broke the pitchers that were in their hands.

Solomon began to build the temple for the Lord in the four hundred eightieth year after the Israelites came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of his reign over Israel, in the second month, in the month of Ziv.

Then Solomon began to build the Lord’s temple in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah where the Lord had appeared to his father David, at the site David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

It was preparation day, and the Sabbath was about to begin.

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.

“The Lord made me
at the beginning of His creation,
before His works of long ago.
I was formed before ancient times,
from the beginning, before the earth began.

Now, Father, glorify Me in Your presence
with that glory I had with You
before the world existed.

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

Jesus said to them, “I assure you: Before Abraham was, I am.”

He is the image of the invisible God,
the firstborn over all creation.
For everything was created by Him,
in heaven and on earth,
the visible and the invisible,
whether thrones or dominions
or rulers or authorities—
all things have been created through Him and for Him.
He is before all things,
and by Him all things hold together.

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

I am writing to you, fathers,
because you have come to know
the 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 know
the 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.

Praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavens. For He chose us in Him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless in His sight. In love

On the contrary, we speak God’s hidden wisdom in a mystery, a wisdom God predestined before the ages for our glory.

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.

He has saved us and called us
with a holy calling,
not according to our works,
but according to His own purpose and grace,
which was given to us in Christ Jesus
before time began.

in the hope of eternal life that God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

And:

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

Long ago You established the earth,
and the heavens are the work of Your hands.

Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
Has it not been declared to you
from the beginning?
Have you not considered
the foundations of the earth?

At that time
Michael the great prince
who stands watch over your people will rise up.
There will be a time of distress
such as never has occurred
since nations came into being until that time.
But at that time all your people
who are found written in the book will escape.

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!

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!

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

“For this reason a man will leave
his father and mother
and be joined to his wife,
and the two will become one flesh? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, man must not separate.”

But from the beginning of creation God made them male and female. For this reason a man will leave
his father and mother
[and be joined to his wife],
and the two will become one flesh.

So they are no longer two, but one flesh. read more.
Therefore what God has joined together, man must not separate.”

So God created man in His own image;
He created him in the image of God;
He created them male and female.

This is why a man leaves his father and mother and bonds with his wife, and they become one flesh.

“This month is to be the beginning of months for you; it is the first month of your year.

I will establish a place for My people Israel and plant them, so that they may live there and not be disturbed again. Evildoers will not afflict them as they have done

I will establish a place for My people Israel and plant them, so that they may live there and not be disturbed again. Evildoers will not continue to oppress them as they formerly have

For this is what the Lord God says:
“At first My people went down to Egypt to live there,
then Assyria oppressed them without cause.

“Go and announce directly to Jerusalem that this is what the Lord says:

I remember the loyalty of your youth,
your love as a bride—
how you followed Me in the wilderness,
in a land not sown.
Israel was holy to the Lord,
the firstfruits of His harvest.
All who ate of it found themselves guilty;
disaster came on them.”
This is the Lord’s declaration.

Therefore, I am going to persuade her,
lead her to the wilderness,
and speak tenderly to her.
There I will give her vineyards back to her
and make the Valley of Achor
into a gateway of hope.
There she will respond as she did
in the days of her youth,
as in the day she came out of the land of Egypt.

I will restore your judges to what they once were,
and your advisers to their former state.
Afterward you will be called the Righteous City,
a Faithful City.”

“Do not remember the past events,
pay no attention to things of old.
Look, I am about to do something new;
even now it is coming. Do you not see it?
Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness,
rivers in the desert.

who confirms the message of His servant
and fulfills the counsel of His messengers;
who says to Jerusalem, “She will be inhabited,”
and to the cities of Judah, “They will be rebuilt,”
and I will restore her ruins;

They will rebuild the ancient ruins;
they will restore the former devastations;
they will renew the ruined cities,
the devastations of many generations.

I will restore the fortunes of Judah and of Israel and will rebuild them as in former times. I will purify them from all the wrongs they have committed against Me, and I will forgive all the wrongs they have committed against Me, rebelling against Me. This city will bear on My behalf a name of joy, praise, and glory before all the nations of the earth, who will hear of all the good I will do for them. They will tremble with awe because of all the good and all the peace I will bring about for them.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away, and look, new things have come.

For God who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of God’s glory in the face of Jesus Christ.

For we are His creation, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared ahead of time so that we should walk in them.

“For I will create a new heaven and a new earth;
the past events will not be remembered or come to mind.

“For just as the new heavens and the new earth,
which I will make,
will endure before Me”—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
“so your offspring and your name will endure.

But based on His promise, we wait for the new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness will dwell.

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea no longer existed.

I told them how the gracious hand of my God had been on me, and what the king had said to me.

They said, “Let’s start rebuilding,” and they were encouraged to do this good work.

The Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, the spirit of the high priest Joshua son of Jehozadak, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people. They began work on the house of Yahweh of Hosts, their God,

From then on Jesus began to preach, “Repent, because the kingdom of heaven has come near!”

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

As He began His ministry, Jesus was about 30 years old and was thought to be the

son of Joseph, son of Heli,

I wrote the first narrative, Theophilus, about all that Jesus began to do and teach

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

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.

But when these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is near!”

The steward searched, beginning with the oldest and ending with the youngest, and the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.

When Moses had finished writing down on a scroll every single word of this law,

On that day I will carry out against Eli everything I said about his family, from beginning to end.

When evening came, the owner of the vineyard told his foreman, ‘Call the workers and give them their pay, starting with the last and ending with the first.’

An inheritance gained prematurely
will not be blessed ultimately.

For if, having escaped the world’s impurity through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in these things and defeated, the last state is worse for them than the first.

I am sure of this, that He who started a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

So we urged Titus that just as he had begun, so he should also complete this grace to you.

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

For we have become companions of the Messiah if we hold firmly until the end the reality that we had at the start.

Remember then how far you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. Otherwise, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place—unless you repent.

This is what the Lord, the King of Israel and its Redeemer, the Lord of Hosts, says:

I am the first and I am the last.
There is no God but Me.

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.

Who has performed and done this,
calling the generations from the beginning?
I, Yahweh, am the first,
and with the last—I am He.”

“Listen to Me, Jacob,
and Israel, the one called by Me:
I am He; I am the first,
I am also the last.

When I saw Him, I fell at His feet like a dead man. He laid His right hand on me and said, “Don’t be afraid! I am the First and the Last,

“Write to the angel of the church in Smyrna:

“The First and the Last, the One who was dead and came to life, says:

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

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.

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.