Bible Verses About Beginnings

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.

But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.

Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.

While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.

And the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

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

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

And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.

And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.

Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the Lord, the first, and with the last; I am he.

And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands:

And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

The mighty God, even the Lord, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.

Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.

I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did them suddenly, and they came to pass.

Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.

And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands.

And as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us at the beginning.

Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.

The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,

And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the Lord, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;

Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.

And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:

And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.