Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version He was with God in the beginning. New Living Translation He existed in the beginning with God. English Standard Version He was in the beginning with God. Berean Study Bible He was with God in the beginning. Berean Literal Bible He was in the beginning with God. King James Bible The same was in the beginning with God. New King James Version He was in the beginning with God. New American Standard Bible He was in the beginning with God. NASB 1995 He was in the beginning with God. NASB 1977 He was in the beginning with God. Amplified Bible He was [continually existing] in the beginning [co-eternally] with God. Christian Standard Bible He was with God in the beginning. Holman Christian Standard Bible He was with God in the beginning. American Standard Version The same was in the beginning with God. Contemporary English Version From the very beginning the Word was with God. Douay-Rheims Bible The same was in the beginning with God. English Revised Version The same was in the beginning with God. Good News Translation From the very beginning the Word was with God. GOD'S WORD® Translation He was already with God in the beginning. International Standard Version He existed in the beginning with God. Literal Standard Version this One was in the beginning with God; NET Bible The Word was with God in the beginning. New Heart English Bible He was in the beginning with God. Weymouth New Testament He was in the beginning with God. World English Bible The same was in the beginning with God. Young's Literal Translation this one was in the beginning with God; Additional Translations ... Study Bible The Beginning1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2He was with God in the beginning. 3Through Him all things were made, and without Him nothing was made that has been made.… Cross References Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Proverbs 8:30 Then I was a skilled craftsman at His side, and His delight day by day, rejoicing always in His presence. John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John 1:3 Through Him all things were made, and without Him nothing was made that has been made. Treasury of Scripture The same was in the beginning with God. (2) The same was.--This is a summary in one clause of the three assertions made in the first verse. The same, that is, the Word who was God, existed before any act of creation, and in that existence was a person distinct from God. Yet it is more than a re-statement. We have arrived at the thought that the Word was one in nature with God. From this higher point of view, the steps below us are more clearly seen. The Word was God; the eternal pre-existence and personality are included in the thought. Verse 2. - The same Logos whom the writer has just affirmed to have been God himself, was, though it might seem at first reading to be incompatible with the first or third clause of the first verse, nevertheless in the beginning with God - "in the beginning," and therefore, as we have seen, eternally in relation with God. The previous statements are thus stringently enforced, and, notwithstanding their tendency to diverge, are once more bound into a new, unified, and emphatic utterance. Thus the αὐτός of the following sentences is charged with the sublime fulness of meaning which is involved in the three utterances of ver. 1. The first clause(1) declared that the Logos preceded the origination of all things, was the eternal ground of the world; the second (2) asserted his unique personality, so that he stands over against the eternal God, in mutual communion with the Absolute and Eternal One; the third clause (3) maintains further that the Logos was not a second God, nor merely Divine (Θεῖος) or God-like, nor is he described as proceeding out of or from God (ἐκ Θεοῦ or ἀπὸ Θεοῦ), nor is he to be called ὁ Θεός, "the God absolute," as opposed to all his manifestations; but the Logos is said to be Θεός, i.e. "God" - God in his nature and being. This second verse reasserts the eternal relation of such a personality "with God," and prepares the way for the statements of the following verses. The unity of the Logos and Theos might easily be supposed to reduce the distinction between them to subjective relations. The second verse emphasizes the objective validity of the relation. Parallel Commentaries ... Lexicon HeΟὗτος (Houtos) Demonstrative Pronoun - Nominative Masculine Singular Strong's Greek 3778: This; he, she, it. was ἦν (ēn) Verb - Imperfect Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular Strong's Greek 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist. with πρὸς (pros) Preposition Strong's Greek 4314: To, towards, with. A strengthened form of pro; a preposition of direction; forward to, i.e. Toward. God Θεόν (Theon) Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular Strong's Greek 2316: A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very. in ἐν (en) Preposition Strong's Greek 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc. [the] beginning. ἀρχῇ (archē) Noun - Dative Feminine Singular Strong's Greek 746: From archomai; a commencement, or chief. 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