"In the beginning God..."
There are many verses I could have chosen, but doesn't this one encompass all the others?
I'm referring to Genesis 1:1.
'Genesis', as the title of the first book of God's revelation to humanity means "beginning".
This verse is my favorite because, in order to have a comprehensive understanding of anything, one must always start with the beginning.
Jesus did. Remember how he spoke with those two disciples on the Jerusalem-Emmaus road?
The disciple named Cleopas answered Jesus' question about what they were discussing and why they were so sad with, "Are you the only stranger in Jerusalem?" "Haven't you heard what's happened here the past few days?"
Jesus listened as Cleopas 'filled God in' on what He had obviously missed.

The the Lord then answered like this: "O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!"
Jesus took them backwards into time, centuries and centuries backwards!
"Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His glory?"
Now look at his next word.
And (Luke 24:27) BEGINNING at Moses and all the prophets, He expounded to them all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.

Jesus Christ, in order to make sense of the present, in order to allow them to view all history from a Heavenly perspective, took them back to the beginning.
You see, God inspired Moses to write the first book of the Bible (and other books) in order to give us humans the big picture. God told us things we could never ever know apart from His telling us.

This is why children who are adopted will seek out their birth parents. We have an inborn hunger to know where we came from and our beginning, and we are all restless until we understand our beginning. "Why are my eyes this color?" "What disease-propensities might I have inherited?" "Did my parents love me?"
We all hunger for an accurate understanding of our true beginning.That's why, even if a child has had excellent adoptive parents, they will still search for their natural parents.
It is as deep an urge as it is to breathe or eat or drink.

God knew humans would want to know where they came from. So like the good creator that He is, He did not keep it secret from us, but created a nation from a man named Abraham, and a woman named Sarah; A nation that was divinely founded. Remember. Abraham and Sarah were unable to have children. God brought the nation into existence supernaturally as a witness and depository of His divine Word to humanity. So that we might all know our beginning.

At the beginning, before anything was created, lived God. That's why Genesis 1:1 is my favorite verse in the Bible. Without it, the rest of the Bible makes no sense.
Before there were men and women or children..."In the beginning God".
Before there was marriage or family life...there was God.
Before there was food, clothing, shelter,money,taxes,towns, cities or bullies...There was God.
This is my favorite Bible verse, because it proves how basic God is.
You can live without anything else-but you cannot exist a nanosecond without the Creator and Sustainer. You came into this world naked, Scripture declares.
When you were in the womb, He knit you together atom by atom. Your private beginning.

And Jesus was there in the beginning. Jesus Christ is in Genesis 1:1 !

"Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM". The Judeans understood exactly what He was claiming! They picked up stones in order to stone Him to death for blasphemy.
"You are not yet fifty years old, and you have seen Abraham?" Abraham had lived and died nearly 2,000 years before. Jesus is in Genesis 1:1. (John 8:56)

Genesis 1:26 - "God said, Let us make man in our image according to our likeness."
Genesis 9:6 shows us that it is God who is the "us" in Genesis 1:26.
..."For in the image of God He made man". John 1:2 says of Jesus Christ, "He was in the beginning with God."

God makes it clear in Genesis 1:1 that He is our Creator, and we are the creature.
We humans cause untold suffering and death, when we confuse that truth.
Genesis 1:1 reveals that the foundation of all existence and meaning, is relationship.
Relationship, as defined by God. All else that goes on, are merely the props and stage scenery in this drama called life. Icing on the cake,as they say. The key light is on God and His children. In the wings, still in the darkness, are those who yet refuse that precious relationship, and are distracted by the dudads, and trinkets of this brief existence.
Someday, when the play ends, only the main actor, God, and His children will be left.
God and His betrothed will leave all else behind, and continue an eternal fellowship.
All of this is in Genesis 1:1

It behooves each of us to revisit this first verse. It ought to be every human's favorite.
For it includes every other verse that follows, till the last verse of The Bible which says, "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen".