The Lord wielded me in the beginning of his ways; before that he made anything, at the beginning.
God understandeth the way there-of, and he knoweth the place thereof.
Lord, thy works be magnified full much, thou hast made all things in wisdom; the earth is filled with thy possessions.
The Lord founded the earth by wisdom; he stablished heavens by prudence.
And thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, art little in the thousands of Judah; he that is the lordly governor in Israel shall go out of thee to me; and the going out of him is from [the] beginning, from days of everlastingness.
and he is before all, and all things be in him.
And to the angel of the church of Laodicea write thou, These things saith Amen, the faithful witness and true, which is beginning of God’s creature.