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

The Word Became Flesh

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.^{(A) 2} He was in the beginning with God. ³ All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being^(B)

⁵ They deliberately ignore this fact, that by the word of God heavens existed long ago and an earth was formed out of water and by means of water,^(A)

2 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished and all their multitude.^(A)

⁷ then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground^[a] and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.^(A)

²² When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.

⁶ And God said, “Let there be a dome in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.”^(A)