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A starting point, origin or source. The beginning often refers to the time of or before the creation of the world. God is described as the Beginning and the End, denoting the eternity of his existence. Jesus Christ’s coming marks a new beginning both for God’s people and, finally, for all creation.

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Beginning as the starting point

As the source

Psalm 111:10 KJV 1900
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: A good understanding have all they that do his commandments: His praise endureth for ever.
See also ; ; the source of Israel’s sin; Jesus Christ as the source of the church’s life

As the origin

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As the commencement

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The beginning: before the creation

Proverbs 8:22–23 KJV 1900
The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, Before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, Or ever the earth was.

Jesus Christ’s existence predates the creation

John 17:5 KJV 1900
And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
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Salvation planned before the creation

Ephesians 1:3–4 KJV 1900
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
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The beginning: the creation

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Marriage ordained from the beginning

Matthew 19:4–6 KJV 1900
And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
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The beginning of Israel’s nationhood

Exodus 12:2 KJV 1900
This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
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New beginnings for God’s people

For Israel

Hosea 2:14–15 KJV 1900
Therefore, behold, I will allure her, And bring her into the wilderness, And speak comfortably unto her. And I will give her her vineyards from thence, And the valley of Achor for a door of hope: And she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, And as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
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For believers

2 Corinthians 5:17 KJV 1900
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
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A new creation

Isaiah 65:17 KJV 1900
For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: And the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
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Beginnings of significant events

The rebuilding of Jerusalem

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Jesus Christ’s ministry

Matthew 4:17 KJV 1900
From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
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The beginning of signs of the end

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The beginning and the end

Implying all-inclusiveness

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The beginning and end contrasted

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Completing what is begun

Philippians 1:6 KJV 1900
Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
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God as the Beginning and the End

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Satan as sinful from the beginning

John 8:44 KJV 1900
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
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