John 1:2

New King James Version

He 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 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

¹ Genesis 1:1-2:3">[xr] 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 were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. ⁴ In 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 brought forth grass, the herb that yields seed according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:14
Then God said, "Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years;

Job 26:7
He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth on nothing.

Job 26:14
Indeed these are the mere edges of His ways, And how small a whisper we hear of Him! But the thunder of His power who can understand?"

Psalms 33:6
By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, And all the host of them by the breath of His mouth.

Isaiah 45:18
For thus says the LORD, Who created the heavens, Who is God, Who formed the earth and made it, Who has established it, Who did not create it in vain, Who formed it to be inhabited: "I am the LORD, and there is no other.

Nahum 2:10
She is empty, desolate, and waste!The heart melts, and the knees shake;Much pain is in every side,And all their faces are drained of color. Joel 2:6 ">[fn]

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.