In the beginning you laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow his precepts have good understanding. To him belongs eternal praise.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom. Though it cost all you have, get understanding.

I was formed long ages ago, at the very beginning, when the world came to be.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

The end of a matter is better than its beginning, and patience is better than pride.

At the beginning their words are folly; at the end they are wicked madness—

I will restore your leaders as in days of old, your rulers as at the beginning. Afterward you will be called the City of Righteousness, the Faithful City.”

Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood since the earth was founded?

Who has done this and carried it through, calling forth the generations from the beginning? I, the Lord—with the first of them and with the last—I am he.”

Who told of this from the beginning, so we could know, or beforehand, so we could say, ‘He was right’? No one told of this, no one foretold it, no one heard any words from you.

I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please.’

A glorious throne, exalted from the beginning, is the place of our sanctuary.

See, I am beginning to bring disaster on the city that bears my Name, and will you indeed go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for I am calling down a sword on all who live on the earth, declares the Lord Almighty.’

therefore I will expose the flank of Moab, beginning at its frontier towns—Beth Jeshimoth, Baal Meon and Kiriathaim—the glory of that land.

The Temple Area Restored

In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after the fall of the city—on that very day the hand of the Lord was on me and he took me there.

were the doorways of the rooms on the south. There was a doorway at the beginning of the passageway that was parallel to the corresponding wall extending eastward, by which one enters the rooms.

The Gates of the New City

“These will be the exits of the city: Beginning on the north side, which is 4,500 cubits long,

The End Times

“At that time Michael, the great prince who protects your people, will arise. There will be a time of distress such as has not happened from the beginning of nations until then. But at that time your people—everyone whose name is found written in the book—will be delivered.