For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
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ἀρχή
G746 · archḗ · ar-khay' · Greek
Strong’s definition
(properly abstract) a commencement, or (concretely) chief (in various applications of order, time, place, or rank)
KJV usage
:--beginning, corner, (at the, the) first (estate), magistrate, power, principality, principle, rule.
KJV renderings in this mapping
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Mapped occurrences
And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.
And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.