John 1:2

New Living Translation

He existed 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 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 In the beginning the Word already existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was God. ² He existed in the beginning with God. ³ God created everything through him, and nothing was created except through him. ⁴ The Word gave life to everything that was created, and his life brought light to everyone.

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
The land produced vegetation—all sorts of seed-bearing plants, and trees with seed-bearing fruit. Their seeds produced plants and trees of the same kind. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:14
Then God said, "Let lights appear in the sky to separate the day from the night. Let them be signs to mark the seasons, days, and years.

Job 26:7
God stretches the northern sky over empty space and hangs the earth on nothing.

Job 26:14
These are just the beginning of all that he does, merely a whisper of his power. Who, then, can comprehend the thunder of his power?"

Psalms 33:6
The Lord merely spoke, and the heavens were created. He breathed the word, and all the stars were born.

Isaiah 45:18
For the Lord is God, and he created the heavens and earth and put everything in place. He made the world to be lived in, not to be a place of empty chaos. "I am the Lord ," he says, "and there is no other.

Nahum 2:10
Soon the city is plundered, empty, and ruined. Hearts melt and knees shake. The people stand aghast, their faces pale and trembling.

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.