thy beginning.

Job 42:12, 13
So the LORD blessed Job's latter days more than his first. He owned 14, 000 sheep, 6, 000 camels, 1, 000 yoke of oxen, and 1, 000 female donkeys. . . .

Proverbs 4:18
The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining brighter and brighter until midday.

Zechariah 4:10
For who has despised the day of small things? But these seven eyes of the LORD, which scan the whole earth, will rejoice when they see the plumb line in Zerubbabel's hand."

Matthew 13:12, 31, 32
Whoever has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him. . . .

thy latter.

Deuteronomy 8:16
He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers had not known, in order to humble you and test you, so that in the end He might cause you to prosper.

Proverbs 19:20
Listen to counsel and accept discipline, that you may be wise the rest of your days.

Zechariah 14:7
It will be a day known only to the LORD, without day or night; but when evening comes, there will be light.

2 Peter 2:20
If indeed they have escaped the corruption of the world through their knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, only to be entangled and overcome by it again, their final condition is worse than it was at first.