²⁶ Then God said, ^(A)“Let us make man^[a] in our image, ^(B)after our likeness. And ^(C)let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

²⁸ And God blessed them. And God said to them, ^(E)“Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

¹⁸ Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; ^(A)I will make him a helper fit for^[a] him.”

^24 (A)Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

² and ^(A)what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses ^(B)entrust to faithful men,^{[a] (C)}who will be able to teach others also. ^3 (D)Share in suffering as ^(E)a good soldier of Christ Jesus. ⁴ No soldier ^(F)gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him. ^5 (G)An athlete is not ^(H)crowned unless he competes according to the rules.