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JohnJhn 1:1 JohnJhn 1 JohnJhn 1:3

He was there with God in the beginning.

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Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Jesus, the Christ; Jesus Continued; Thompson Chain Reference - Christ; Divine; Divinity; Divinity-Humanity; The Topic Concordance - Belief; Creation; Giving and Gifts; Jesus Christ; Life; Light; Power; Rebirth/being Born Again; Receiving; Word of God; World; Torrey's Topical Textbook - Excellency and Glory of Christ, the;

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Creation; Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - John, gospel of; Trinity; Word; Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Anthropomorphism; Israel; Life; Miracle; Old Testament in the New Testament, the; Time; Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Universalists; Easton Bible Dictionary - Son of God; Word, the; Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jesus Christ; Son of God; Holman Bible Dictionary - Christ, Christology; Incarnation; Jesus Christ; Jesus, Life and Ministry of; John, the Gospel of; John, the Letters of; Trinity; Word; Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - John, Gospel of; Logos; Trinity; Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Atonement (2); Eschatology; Gospel (2); Immanence ; Immortality (2); Light; Love (2); Man (2); Manuscripts; Messiah; Philo; Pre-Existence; Providence; Trinity (2); Union with God; Morrish Bible Dictionary - Beginning; The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Face; Fellowship; People's Dictionary of the Bible - Genealogy; God; Jesus christ; Scripture; Word; Smith Bible Dictionary - John, Gospel of; Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Word;

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Creation; Law of Moses, the; International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Begin; Bethany; Comparative, Religion; Image; John, Gospel of; Ostraca; Prologue; Providence;

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for November 30;

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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.

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 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.

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.

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Contextual Overview

¹ Before the world began, the Word was there. The Word was with God, and the Word was God. ² He was there with God in the beginning. ³ Everything was made through him, and nothing was made without him. ⁴ In him there was life, and that life was a light for the people of the world.

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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

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Cross-References

Genesis 1:12
The earth grew grass and plants that made grain. And it grew trees that made fruit with seeds in it. Every plant made its own kind of seeds. And God saw that this was good.

Genesis 1:14
Then God said, "Let there be lights in the sky. These lights will separate the days from the nights. They will be used for signs to show when special meetings begin and to show the days and years.

Job 26:7
God stretched the northern sky over empty space. He hung the earth on nothing.

Job 26:14
These are only a few of the amazing things God has done. We hear only a small whisper of God's thundering power."

Psalms 33:6
The Lord spoke the command, and the world was made. The breath from his mouth created everything in the heavens.

Isaiah 45:18
The Lord is God. He made the skies and the earth. He put the earth in its place. He did not want the earth to be empty when he made it. He created it to be lived on. "I am the Lord . There is no other God.

Nahum 2:10
Now Nineveh is empty. Everything is stolen. The city is ruined. People have lost their courage, their hearts melt with fear, their knees knock together, their bodies shake, and their faces turn pale.

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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.

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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.

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