Proverbs 8:23
21 bestowing wealth on those who love me and making their treasuries full.
22 The LORD created me as His first course, before His works of old.
From everlasting I was established, from the beginning, before the earth began.
24 When there were no watery depths, I was brought forth, when no springs were overflowing with water.
25 Before the mountains were settled, before the hills, I was brought forth,
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- From everlasting I was established, from the beginning, before the earth began.
- KJV
- I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
- WEB
- I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth existed.
- ASV
- I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, Before the earth was.
- DARBY
- I was set up from eternity, from the beginning, before the earth was.
- BLB
- From everlasting I was poured out, from the head, from before the earth.
- ÅB
- Fra evighet er jeg blitt til, fra først av, før jorden var.
- OTB
- Fra evighet ble jeg etablert, fra begynnelsen, da verden kom til.
- B1930
- Fra evighet er jeg blitt til, fra først av, før jorden var.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
John 17:24
Father, I want those You have given Me to be with Me where I am, that they may see the glory You gave Me because You loved Me before the foundation of the world.
Read in contextJohn 17:5
And now, Father, glorify Me in Your presence with the glory I had with You before the world existed.
Read in contextGenesis 1:26
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”
Read in contextMicah 5:2
But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come forth for Me One to be ruler over Israel — One whose origins are of old, from the days of eternity.
Read in contextPsalms 2:6
“I have installed My King on Zion, upon My holy mountain.”
Read in context1 John 1:1–2
That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our own eyes, which we have gazed upon and touched with our own hands—this is the Word of life.
Read in contextEphesians 1:10–11
as a plan for the fullness of time, to bring all things in heaven and on earth together in Christ.
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