Proverbs 8:23

Bible in Basic English (1941)

From eternal days I was given my place, from the birth of time, before the earth was.

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Referenced Verses

  • John 17:24 : 24 Father, it is my desire that these whom you have given to me may be by my side where I am, so that they may see my glory which you have given to me, because you had love for me before the world came into being.
  • Ps 2:6 : 6 But I have put my king on my holy hill of Zion.
  • Mic 5:2 : 2 For this cause he will give them up till the time when she who is with child has given birth: then the rest of his brothers will come back to the children of Israel.
  • John 17:5 : 5 And now, Father, let me have glory with you, even that glory which I had with you before the world was.
  • Eph 1:10-11 : 10 The ordering of the times when they are complete, so that all things might come to a head in Christ, the things in heaven and the things on the earth; in him, I say, 11 In whom we have a heritage, being marked out from the first in his purpose who does all things in agreement with his designs;
  • 1 John 1:1-2 : 1 That which was from the first, which has come to our ears, and which we have seen with our eyes, looking on it and touching it with our hands, about the Word of life 2 (And the life was made clear to us, and we have seen it and are witnessing to it and giving you word of that eternal life which was with the Father and was seen by us);
  • Gen 1:26 : 26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, like us: and let him have rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every living thing which goes flat on the earth.

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    22The Lord made me as the start of his way, the first of his works in the past.

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    24When there was no deep I was given birth, when there were no fountains flowing with water.

    25Before the mountains were put in their places, before the hills was my birth:

    26When he had not made the earth or the fields or the dust of the world.

    27When he made ready the heavens I was there: when he put an arch over the face of the deep:

  • Prov 8:29-31
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    29When he put a limit to the sea, so that the waters might not go against his word: when he put in position the bases of the earth:

    30Then I was by his side, as a master workman: and I was his delight from day to day, playing before him at all times;

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    10You, Lord, at the first did put the earth on its base, and the heavens are the works of your hands:

  • Job 38:4
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    4Where were you when I put the earth on its base? Say, if you have knowledge.

  • Isa 48:16
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    16Come near to me, and give ear to this; from the start I did not keep it secret; from the time of its coming into existence I was there: and now the Lord God has sent me, and given me his spirit.

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    5Before you were formed in the body of your mother I had knowledge of you, and before your birth I made you holy; I have given you the work of being a prophet to the nations.

  • Ps 139:15-16
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    15My frame was not unseen by you when I was made secretly, and strangely formed in the lowest parts of the earth.

    16Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book all my days were recorded, even those which were purposed before they had come into being.

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    7Were you the first man to come into the world? or did you come into being before the hills?

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    25In the past you put the earth on its base, and the heavens are the work of your hands.

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  • Isa 48:5
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    5For this reason I made it clear to you in the past, before it came I gave you word of it: for fear that you might say, My god did these things, and my pictured and metal images made them come about.

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    2This Word was from the first in relation with God.

  • Ps 22:10
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  • Isa 46:10
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    23And I was upright before him, and I kept myself from sin.

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