Lexicon :: Strong's G746 - archē

“Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that he who created[fn] them in the beginning made them male and female,

He told them, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because of the hardness of your hearts, but it was not like that from the beginning.

“All these events are the beginning of labor pains.

“For at that time there will be great distress,[fn] the kind that hasn’t taken place from the beginning of the world until now and never will again.

The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.[fn]

“But from the beginning of creation God[fn] made them male and female.

“For nation will rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places, and famines.[fn] These are the beginning of birth pains.

“For those will be days of tribulation, the kind that hasn’t been from the beginning of creation until now and never will be again.

just as the original eyewitnesses and servants of the word handed them down to us.

“Whenever they bring you before synagogues and rulers and authorities, don’t worry about how you should defend yourselves or what you should say.

They watched closely and sent spies who pretended to be righteous,[fn] so that they could catch him in what he said, to hand him over to the governor’s rule and authority.

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

Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana of Galilee. He revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.

“But there are some among you who don’t believe.” (For Jesus knew from the beginning those who did not[fn] believe and the one who would betray him.)

“Who are you? ” they questioned.

“Exactly what I’ve been telling you from the very beginning,” Jesus told them.

“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 does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature,[fn] because he is a liar and the father of lies.

“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[fn] comes you will remember I told them to you. I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.

He saw heaven opened and an object that resembled a large sheet coming down, being lowered by its four corners to the earth.

“I was in the town of Joppa praying, and I saw, in a trance, an object that resembled a large sheet coming down, being lowered by its four corners from heaven, and it came to me.

“As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit came down on them, just as on us at the beginning.

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

For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers,

Then comes the end, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father, when he abolishes all rule and all authority and power.

far above every ruler and authority, power and dominion, and every title given,[fn] not only in this age but also in the one to come.

This is so that God’s multi-faceted wisdom may now be made known through the church to the rulers and authorities in the heavens.

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this darkness, against evil, spiritual forces in the heavens.

And you Philippians know that in the early days of the gospel, when I left Macedonia, no church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving except you alone.

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 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.

and you have been filled by him, who is the head over every ruler and authority.

He disarmed the rulers and authorities and disgraced them publicly; he triumphed over them in him.[fn]

But we ought to thank God always for you, brothers and sisters loved by the Lord, because from the beginning[fn] God has chosen you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and through belief in the truth.

Remind them to submit to rulers and authorities, to obey, to be ready for every good work,

And:

In the beginning, Lord,

you established the earth,

and the heavens are the works of your hands;

how will we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? This salvation had its beginning when it was spoken of by the Lord, and it was confirmed to us by those who heard him.

For we have become participants in Christ if we hold firmly until the end the reality[fn] that we had at the start.

Although by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the basic principles of God’s revelation again. You need milk, not solid food.

Therefore, let us leave the elementary teaching about Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, faith in God,

Without father, mother, or genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God, he remains a priest forever.

saying, “Where is his ‘coming’ that he promised? Ever since our ancestors fell asleep, all things continue as they have been since the beginning of creation.”

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 ​— ​

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 word you have heard.

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 conquered the evil one.

What you have heard from the beginning is to remain in you. If what you have heard from the beginning remains in you, then you will remain in the Son and in the Father.

The one who commits[fn] 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.

For this is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another,

So now I ask you, dear lady ​— ​not as if I were writing you a new command, but one we have had from the beginning ​— ​that we love one another.