Proverbs 8:22-31

22 a“The Lord bpossessed
Or fathered; Septuagint created
me at the beginning of his work,
Hebrew way

the first of his acts eof old.
23Ages ago I was fset up,
at the first, gbefore the beginning of the earth.
24When there were no hdepths I was ibrought forth,
when there were no springs abounding with water.
25Before the mountains jhad been shaped,
kbefore the hills, I was brought forth,
26before he had made the earth with its fields,
or the first of the dust of the world.
27When he lestablished the heavens, I was there;
when he drew ma circle on the face of the deep,
28when he nmade firm the skies above,
when he established
The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
the fountains of the deep,
29when he passigned to the sea its qlimit,
so that the waters might not transgress his command,
when he marked out rthe foundations of the earth,
30then sI was beside him, like a master workman,
and I was daily his
Or  daily filled with
udelight,
rejoicing before him always,
31 vrejoicing in his winhabited world
and delighting in the children of man.

Colossians 1:16-17

16For by
That is,  by means of; or in
him all things were created, yin heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether zthrones or aadominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created abthrough him and for him.
17And ache is before all things, and in him all things adhold together.

1 John 1:1

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1 aeThat which was affrom the beginning, agwhich we have heard, ahwhich we have seen with our eyes, aiwhich we looked upon and ajhave touched with our hands, concerning the word of life
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