-
Let all creation rejoice before the Lord, for he comes, he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples in his faithfulness.
-
“Of what value is an idol carved by a craftsman? Or an image that teaches lies? For the one who makes it trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak.
-
So was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophet: “I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden since the creation of the world.”
-
“Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world.
-
“But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’
-
He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.
-
“Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.
-
For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
-
For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.
-
For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope
-
that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.
-
We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.
-
neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
-
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!
-
Not Circumcision but the New Creation
See what large letters I use as I write to you with my own hand!
-
Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything; what counts is the new creation.
-
For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love
-
The Supremacy of the Son of God
The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
-
Now we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said, “So I declared on oath in my anger, ‘They shall never enter my rest.’” And yet his works have been finished since the creation of the world.
-
Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account.
-
The Blood of Christ
But when Christ came as high priest of the good things that are now already here, he went through the greater and more perfect tabernacle that is not made with human hands, that is to say, is not a part of this creation.
-
Otherwise Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world. But he has appeared once for all at the culmination of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself.
-
He was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake.
-
They will say, “Where is this ‘coming’ he promised? Ever since our ancestors died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.”
-
To the Church in Laodicea
“To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God’s creation.
