Proverbs 8:23
New Living Translation
23 I was appointed in ages past,
at the very first, before the earth began.
John 17:24
New Living Translation
24 Father, I want these whom you have given me to be with me where I am. Then they can see all the glory you gave me because you loved me even before the world began!
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Micah 5:2
New Living Translation
A Ruler from Bethlehem
2 [a]But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah,
are only a small village among all the people of Judah.
Yet a ruler of Israel,
whose origins are in the distant past,
will come from you on my behalf.
Footnotes
- 5:2 Verses 5:2-15 are numbered 5:1-14 in Hebrew text.
Psalm 2:6
New Living Translation
6 For the Lord declares, “I have placed my chosen king on the throne
in Jerusalem,[a] on my holy mountain.”
Footnotes
- 2:6 Hebrew on Zion.
Genesis 1:26
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26 Then God said, “Let us make human beings[a] in our image, to be like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth,[b] and the small animals that scurry along the ground.”
1 John 1:1-2
New Living Translation
Introduction
1 We proclaim to you the one who existed from the beginning,[a] whom we have heard and seen. We saw him with our own eyes and touched him with our own hands. He is the Word of life. 2 This one who is life itself was revealed to us, and we have seen him. And now we testify and proclaim to you that he is the one who is eternal life. He was with the Father, and then he was revealed to us.
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- 1:1 Greek What was from the beginning.
John 17:5
New Living Translation
5 Now, Father, bring me into the glory we shared before the world began.
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Ephesians 1:10-11
New Living Translation
10 And this is the plan: At the right time he will bring everything together under the authority of Christ—everything in heaven and on earth. 11 Furthermore, because we are united with Christ, we have received an inheritance from God,[a] for he chose us in advance, and he makes everything work out according to his plan.
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- 1:11 Or we have become God’s inheritance.
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