What Does the Bible Say About Begin?

1 John 1:9 ESV / 9 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Acts 2:38 ESV / 9 helpful votes

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 9 helpful votes

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 9 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. ...

John 3:16 ESV / 8 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV / 7 helpful votes

For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 7 helpful votes

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 7 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Revelation 20:1-15 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain. And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be released for a little while. Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection. ...

2 Peter 1:21 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

Hebrews 1:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets,

Ephesians 1:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

2 Corinthians 5:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes

He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.

Romans 8:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

John 1:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.

Luke 4:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. And as was his custom, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and he stood up to read.

Luke 1:39-44 ESV / 5 helpful votes

In those days Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country, to a town in Judah, and she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the baby leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit, and she exclaimed with a loud cry, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! And why is this granted to me that the mother of my Lord should come to me? ...

Mark 2:28 ESV / 5 helpful votes

So the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.”

Matthew 28:19 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

Matthew 10:28 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

Matthew 5:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.

Matthew 3:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Bear fruit in keeping with repentance.

Ecclesiastes 12:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 9:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.

Psalm 139:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb.

Psalm 139:13-16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.

Psalm 51:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Job 1:1-22 ESV / 5 helpful votes

There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil. There were born to him seven sons and three daughters. He possessed 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 female donkeys, and very many servants, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the east. His sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one on his day, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them. And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and consecrate them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts.” Thus Job did continually. ...

1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!

Exodus 21:22-24 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“When men strive together and hit a pregnant woman, so that her children come out, but there is no harm, the one who hit her shall surely be fined, as the woman's husband shall impose on him, and he shall pay as the judges determine. But if there is harm, then you shall pay life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

Exodus 20:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“You shall not murder.

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Genesis 9:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.

Genesis 2:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done.

Genesis 2:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 5 helpful votes

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Genesis 1:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

Leviticus 23:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

42 Bible Verses about Begin

1 John 1:9 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 2:38 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 6:23 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 20:1-15 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Peter 1:21 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 1:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 1:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Corinthians 5:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 8:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16-17 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 1:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 4:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 1:39-44 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 2:28 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 28:19 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 10:28 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 5:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 3:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ecclesiastes 12:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ecclesiastes 9:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 139:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 139:13-16 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 51:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 1:1-22 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 21:22-24 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 20:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 9:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 2:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 2:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 1:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Leviticus 23:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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