'Began' in the Bible

(But if the ministry of death, in letters, graven in stones, began with glory, so that the children of Israel could not fix their eyes on the face of Moses, on account of the glory of his face, a glory which is annulled;

So we urged Titus that, as he began it, he should also complete this gracious work among you as well.

Now I am giving an opinion on this because it is profitable for you, who a year ago began not only to do something but also to desire it.

Now finish what you began, so that your eagerness to do so may be matched by your eagerness to complete it.

For prior to the coming of certain men from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles; but when they came, he began to withdraw and hold himself aloof, fearing the party of the circumcision.

Are you so foolish? Although you began with the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by human effort?

This is what I mean: the Law, which came into existence four hundred and thirty years later [after the covenant concerning the coming Messiah], does not and cannot invalidate the covenant previously established by God, so as to abolish the promise.

I am convinced of this, that the one who began a good action among you will bring it to completion by the Day of the Messiah Jesus.

Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,

In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;

How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;

I had many things [to say when I began] to write to you, but I prefer not to put it down with pen (reed) and black (ink);

I began to cry bitterly because no one was found worthy to open the scroll or look inside it.

Then the voice I had heard from heaven began to speak to me again, "Go and take the open scroll in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land."

He began to speak blasphemies against God: to blaspheme His name and His dwelling—those who dwell in heaven.

Then the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast so that darkness covered his kingdom, and people began to bite their tongues because of their pain.

Every ship's captain, everyone who traveled by ship, sailors, and everyone who made a living from the sea stood far away. When they saw the smoke rising from the fire that consumed her, they began to cry out, "What city was like that great city?"