I CAN`T IMAGINE a journey of a thousand miles beginning with a thousand-mile step. When you say a single step, it is a very small beginning compared to the length of a journey that Lao Tzu is trying to tell or impress in this quotation.
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I John 2:7 and I John 2:8
“Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.”

“Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.”

Matthew 17:1 and Luke 9:28
“And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart.”

“And it came to pass about an eight days after these sayings, He took Peter, John, and James, and went up into a mountain to pray.”

John 3:13 and II Kings 2:11
“And no man hath ascended up to heaven but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.”

“And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder, and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.”

Proverbs 26:4 and Proverbs 26:5
“Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.”

“Answer a fool according to his folly.”

Job 12:10 and Psalms 119:109
“In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.”

“My soul is continually in my hand; yet do I not forget the law.”

Colossians 3:1 and Acts 7:55
“If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.”

“But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God.”

Ephesians 5:17 and I Cor. 14:38
“Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is,”

“But if any men be ignorant, let him be ignorant.”

I Chronicles 28:9 and Lamentations 3:31
“And thou Solomon my son, know mind: for the Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if you seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off foever.”

“For the Lord will not cast off forever.”