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Monday, September 30th, 2024
the Week of Proper 21 / Ordinary 26

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He was in the beginning with God.

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Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Jesus, the Christ; Jesus Continued; Thompson Chain Reference - Christ; Divine; Divinity; Divinity-Humanity; The Topic Concordance - Belief; Creation; Giving and Gifts; Jesus Christ; Life; Light; Power; Rebirth/being Born Again; Receiving; Word of God; World; Torrey's Topical Textbook - Excellency and Glory of Christ, the;

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Creation; Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - John, gospel of; Trinity; Word; Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Anthropomorphism; Israel; Life; Miracle; Old Testament in the New Testament, the; Time; Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Universalists; Easton Bible Dictionary - Son of God; Word, the; Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jesus Christ; Son of God; Holman Bible Dictionary - Christ, Christology; Incarnation; Jesus Christ; Jesus, Life and Ministry of; John, the Gospel of; John, the Letters of; Trinity; Word; Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - John, Gospel of; Logos; Trinity; Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Atonement (2); Eschatology; Gospel (2); Immanence ; Immortality (2); Light; Love (2); Man (2); Manuscripts; Messiah; Philo; Pre-Existence; Providence; Trinity (2); Union with God; Morrish Bible Dictionary - Beginning; The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Face; Fellowship; People's Dictionary of the Bible - Genealogy; God; Jesus christ; Scripture; Word; Smith Bible Dictionary - John, Gospel of; Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Word;

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Creation; Law of Moses, the; International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Begin; Bethany; Comparative, Religion; Image; John, Gospel of; Ostraca; Prologue; Providence;

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for November 30;

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Parallel Translations

Simplified Cowboy Version
He rode with God at the start of all things.

Legacy Standard Bible
He was in the beginning with God.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
He was in the beginning with God.

Bible in Basic English
This Word was from the first in relation with God.

Darby Translation
*He* was in the beginning with God.

New King James Version
He was in the beginning with God.

Christian Standard Bible®
He was with God in the beginning.

World English Bible
The same was in the beginning with God.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
The same was in the beginning with God.

Weymouth's New Testament
He was in the beginning with God.

King James Version (1611)
The same was in the beginning with God.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The same was in the begynnynge wt God.

Mace New Testament (1729)
the same was in the beginning with God.

Amplified Bible
He was [continually existing] in the beginning [co-eternally] with God.

American Standard Version
The same was in the beginning with God.

Revised Standard Version
He was in the beginning with God;

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
The same was in the beginnynge with God.

Update Bible Version
The same was in the beginning with God.

Webster's Bible Translation
The same was in the beginning with God.

New Century Version
He was with God in the beginning.

New English Translation
The Word was with God in the beginning.

Contemporary English Version
From the very beginning the Word was with God.

Complete Jewish Bible
He was with God in the beginning.

Geneva Bible (1587)
This same was in the beginning with God.

George Lamsa Translation
The same was in the beginning with God.

Hebrew Names Version
The same was in the beginning with God.

International Standard Version
He existed in the beginning with God.Genesis 1:1;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
This was in the beginning with Aloha.

Murdock Translation
He was in the beginning with God.

New Living Translation
He existed in the beginning with God.

New Life Bible
He was with God in the beginning.

English Revised Version
The same was in the beginning with God.

Berean Standard Bible
He was with God in the beginning.

New Revised Standard
He was in the beginning with God.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The same, was originally, with God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The same was in the beginning with God.

King James Version
The same was in the beginning with God.

Lexham English Bible
This one was in the beginning with God.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The same was in the begynnyng with God.

Easy-to-Read Version
He was there with God in the beginning.

English Standard Version
He was in the beginning with God.

New American Standard Bible
He was in the beginning with God.

Good News Translation
From the very beginning the Word was with God.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
This was in the bigynnyng at God.

Young's Literal Translation
this one was in the beginning with God;

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Contextual Overview

¹ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ² He was in the beginning with God. ³ All things came into being through Him, and without Him not even one thing came into being that has come into being. ⁴ In Him was life, and the life was the light of men;

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Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Proverbs 8:22 - General Isaiah 7:14 - Immanuel Isaiah 9:6 - The mighty God Isaiah 43:13 - before Jeremiah 20:9 - I will Zechariah 13:7 - the man John 1:1 - the beginning John 1:15 - he was John 8:58 - Before John 10:30 - General Philippians 2:6 - in 1 Timothy 3:16 - God 1 John 1:1 - That which 1 John 1:2 - which was

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Cross-References

Genesis 1:12
And the earth bore tender sprouts, the plant seeding seed according to its kind, and the fruit tree producing fruit according to its kind, whichever seed is in it. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:14
And God said, Let luminaries be in the expanse of the heavens, to divide between the day and the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years.

Job 26:7
He stretched out the north over the empty place; and He hung the earth on nothing.

Job 26:14
Lo, these are the edges of His ways; yea, what a whisper of a word we hear of Him! And the thunder of His might who can understand?

Psalms 33:6
Through the Word of Jehovah the heavens were made; and all their host were made by the breath of His mouth.

Isaiah 45:18
For so says Jehovah, Creator of the heavens; He is God, forming the earth and making it; He makes it stand, not creating it empty, but forming it to be lived in. I am Jehovah, and there is none else.

Nahum 2:10
She is empty, even waste, even devastated. And the heart is melted, and the knees knocking; and trembling is in all the loins; and all of their faces collect heat.

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Gill's Notes on the Bible

The same was in the beginning with God. This is a repetition of what is before said, and is made to show the importance of the truths before delivered; namely, the eternity of Christ, his distinct personality, and proper deity; and that the phrase, in the beginning, is to be joined to each of the above sentences; and so proves, not only his eternal existence, but his eternal existence with the Father, and also his eternal deity; and is also made to carry on the thread of the discourse, concerning the word, and not God the Father; and to express, not only his co-existence in nature, but his co-operation in the works of creation next mentioned.

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The same - The Word, or the λόγος Logos.

Was in the beginning with God - This seems to be a repetition of what was said in the first verse; but it is stated over again to “guard the doctrine,” and to prevent the possibility of a mistake. John had said that he existed before the creation, and that he was “with God;” but he had not said in the first verse “that the union with God existed in the beginning.” He now expresses that idea, and assures us that that union was not one which was commenced in time, and which might be, therefore, a mere union of feeling, or a compact, like that between any other beings, but was one which existed in eternity, and which was therefore a union of nature or essence.

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Green's Literal Translation

John 1:2

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