Six Days of Creation and the Sabbath

1 When God began to create^[a] the heavens and the earth,^(A)

²¹ and do not turn aside after useless things that cannot profit or save, for they are useless.^(A)

²⁶ But Peter made him get up, saying, “Stand up; I am only a mortal.”^(A)

⁴ Hence, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “no idol in the world really exists” and that “there is no God but one.”^(A)

¹⁷ Elijah was a human like us, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth.^(A)

⁷ He said in a loud voice, “Fear God and give him glory, for the hour of his judgment has come, and worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water.”^(A)