The Beginning

³ Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.^(A)

¹⁷ As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.”^[a](A) He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed—the God who gives life^(B) to the dead and calls^(C) into being things that were not.^(D)

²⁸ God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not^(A)—to nullify the things that are,

³ By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command,^(A) so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.