The History of Creation^(A)

1 In the ^(B)beginning ^(C)God created the heavens and the earth. ² The earth was ^(D)without form, and void; and darkness ^[a]was on the face of the deep. ^(E)And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

^2 (A)And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. ³ Then God ^(B)blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.

¹⁷ It is ^(A)a sign between Me and the children of Israel forever; for ^(B)in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.’ ”

²⁷ And He said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the ^(A)Sabbath. ²⁸ Therefore ^(B)the Son of Man is also Lord of the Sabbath.”

Ministering at Troas

⁷ Now on ^(A)the first day of the week, when the disciples came together ^(B)to break bread, Paul, ready to depart the next day, spoke to them and continued his message until midnight.

²⁸ Then God blessed them, and God said to them, ^(A)“Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and ^(B)subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that ^[a]moves on the earth.”