1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

¹⁹ The Lord by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.

¹⁷ (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.

² In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;

³ Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.