John 1:2

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

The same, was originally, with God.

Parallel Translations

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

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
The same was in the beginnynge 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]

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

New Century Version
He was with God in the beginning.

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

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

English Standard Version
He 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.

English Revised Version
The same 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.

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

Complete Jewish Bible
He was with God in the beginning.

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

Etheridge Translation
This was in the beginning with Aloha.

Murdock Translation
He was in the beginning with God.

King James Version (1611)
The same 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.

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

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

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

Revised Standard Version
He was in the beginning with God;

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

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

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

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

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

Literal Translation
He was in the beginning 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.

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

New King James Version
He 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.

Legacy Standard Bible
He was in the beginning with God.

Contextual Overview

¹ Originally, was, the Word, and, the Word, was, with God; and, the Word, was, God. ² The same, was originally, with God. ³ All things, through him, came into existence, and, without him, came into existence, not even one thing: that which hath come into existence, 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 land brought-forth vegetation - herb yielding seed after its kind, and tree bearing fruit, whose seed is within it, after its kind, And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:14
And God said - Let there be luminaries 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
Who stretcheth out the north over emptiness, hangeth the earth upon nothingness;

Job 26:14
Lo! these, are the fringes of his way, and what a whisper of a word hath been heard of him! But, the thunder of his might, who could understand?

Psalms 33:6
By the word of Yahweh, the heavens were made, and, by the spirit of his mouth, all their host:

Isaiah 45:18
For, Thus, saith Yahweh, Who created the heavens God himself! Who fashioned the earth - And made it Himself, established it, …Not a waste, created he it To be dwelt in, he fashioned it, …I, am Yahweh, and there is none else:

Nahum 2:10
Emptiness, yea turned to emptiness, aye deserted is she ! with, heart, unnerved, and, a tottering, of knees, and, anguish, in all loins, and, the faces of them all, have withdrawn their colour.

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.