In the beginning ¹  God ²  created ³  the heavens and the earth. ⁴ 

All ¹  these things are the beginning of birth pains.

The Word ¹  was with God in the beginning.

Your beginning ¹  will seem so small, since your future will flourish. ² 

Fearing the Lord ¹  is the beginning ²  of moral knowledge, ³  but ⁴  fools ⁵  despise ⁶  wisdom and instruction. ⁷ 

The Lord created ¹  me as the beginning ²  of his works, ³  before his deeds of long ago.

From eternity I was appointed, ¹  from the beginning, from before the world existed. ² 

The beginning ¹  of wisdom is to fear the Lord, ²  and acknowledging ³  the Holy One ⁴  is understanding.

An inheritance gained easily ¹  in the beginning will not be blessed ²  in the end. ³ 

The end of a matter ¹  is better than its beginning; likewise, patience ²  is better than pride. ³ 

At the beginning his words ¹  are foolish and at the end ²  his talk ³  is wicked madness, ⁴ 

The beginning of the gospel ¹  of Jesus Christ, ²  the Son of God. ³ 

But from the beginning of creation he ¹  made them male and female. ² 

It was the day of preparation ¹  and the Sabbath was beginning. ² 

and you also will testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

you know what happened throughout Judea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism that John announced: ¹ 

Who acts and carries out decrees? ¹  Who ²  summons the successive generations from the beginning? I, the Lord, am present at the very beginning, and at the very end – I am the one. ³ 

As for you, what you have heard from the beginning must remain ¹  in you. If what you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.

Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might and the beginning of my strength, outstanding in dignity, outstanding in power.

“This month is to be your beginning of months; it will be your first month of the year. ¹