John 1:2

Literal Standard Version

this One was in the beginning with God;

Parallel Translations

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

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

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

English Standard Version
He was in the beginning with God.

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

New Century Version
He was with God in the beginning.

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

Legacy Standard Bible
He was in the beginning with God.

Berean Standard Bible
He 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.

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

Easy-to-Read Version
He was there 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.

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

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

Literal Translation
He was in the beginning with God.

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

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

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

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

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.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
This was in the bigynnyng at 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 English Translation
The Word was with God in the beginning.

New King James Version
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.

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.

Revised Standard Version
He was in the beginning with God;

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

Young's Literal Translation
this one 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.

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

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

Contextual Overview

¹In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God; ²this One was in the beginning with God;³all things happened through Him, and without Him not even one thing happened that has happened. ⁴In Him was life, and the life was the light of men,

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

Cross-References

Genesis 1:12
And the earth brings forth tender grass, herb sowing seed after its kind, and tree making fruit (whose seed [is] in itself) after its kind; and God sees that [it is] good;

Genesis 1:14
And God says, "Let luminaries be in the expanse of the heavens, to make a separation between the day and the night, then they have been for signs, and for appointed times, and for days and years,

Job 26:7
Stretching out the north over desolation, || Hanging the earth on nothing,

Job 26:14
Behold, these [are] the borders of His way, and how little a matter is heard of Him, and who understands the thunder of His might?"

Psalms 33:6
By the word of YHWH || The heavens have been made, || And all their host by the breath of His mouth.

Isaiah 45:18
For thus said YHWH, Creator of the heavens, || He is God, || Former of earth, and its Maker, || He established it—He did not create it empty, || For He formed it to be inhabited: "I [am] YHWH, and there is none else.

Nahum 2:10
She is empty, indeed, emptiness and waste, || And the heart has melted, || And the knees have struck together, || And great pain [is] in all loins, || And the faces of all of them have gathered paleness.

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.

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.