The Creation

1 In the beginning^(A) God created the heavens and the earth.^[a](B)

²⁴ The God who made the world and everything in it^(A)—he is Lord of heaven and earth^(B)—does not live in shrines made by hands.^{(C) 25} Neither is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything,^(D) since he himself gives everyone life and breath and all things.^{(E) 26} From one man^[a] he has made every nationality to live over the whole earth and has determined their appointed times and the boundaries of where they live.^{(F) 27} He did this so that they might seek God, and perhaps they might reach out and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.^{(G) 28} For in him we live and move and have our being, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’^(H)

³ By faith we understand that the universe was^[a] created by the word of God,^(A) so that what is seen was made from things that are not visible.^[b]