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

⁵ For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth ^(A)was formed out of water and through water ^(B)by the word of God,

The Word Became Flesh

1 ^(A)In the beginning was ^(B)the Word, and ^(C)the Word was with God, and ^(D)the Word was God. ² He was in the beginning with God. ^3 (E)All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.

The Seventh Day, God Rests

2 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and ^(A)all the host of them.

⁷ So the Lord said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.”

⁷ then the Lord God formed the man of ^(A)dust from the ground and ^(B)breathed into his ^(C)nostrils the breath of life, and ^(D)the man became a living creature.

²⁵ because they exchanged the truth about God for ^(A)a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, ^(B)who is blessed forever! Amen.