Creation

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters. God said, “Let there be light,” and there was…

The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished. On the seventh day God finished his work which he had done; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done. God blessed the seventh day, and made it…

As it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations.” This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.

By faith, we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made out of things which are visible.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made the earth and the heavens.

No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,

As an archer who wounds all, so is he who hires a fool or he who hires those who pass by.

All things were made through him. Without him, nothing was made that has been made.

He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn’t recognize him.

For by him all things were created in the heavens and on the earth, visible things and invisible things, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things have been created through him and for him.

By his Spirit the heavens are garnished. His hand has pierced the swift serpent.

You send out your Spirit and they are created. You renew the face of the ground.

For he spoke, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood firm.

for then there will be great suffering, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be.

for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.

It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.’ ”

Whatever Yahweh pleased, that he has done, in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps.

Yahweh has made everything for its own end— yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.

“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created!”

God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness. God called the light “day”, and the darkness he called “night”. There was evening and there was…

seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.” God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it…