Creation And The Fall

Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’” — read the full passage →

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished. — read the full passage →

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

By faith, we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made out of things which are visible.

So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created!”

For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water, by the word of God;

And the God of peace will quickly crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb. — read the full passage →

for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.

Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.

The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

But I don’t permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be in quietness.

For by him all things were created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

“For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.

Thus says God Yahweh, he who created the heavens and stretched them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it.

Yahweh said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground—man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky—for I am sorry that I have made them.”

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made the earth and the heavens.

The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished.

God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind”; and it was so.

God created the large sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.

God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more.

He seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years,

But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.

by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.

has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.

and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;

I left you in Crete for this reason, that you would set in order the things that were lacking, and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you;

For Adam was first formed, then Eve. — read the full passage →

Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection. — read the full passage →

In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety; not just with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing; — read the full passage →

I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting. — read the full passage →

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men: — read the full passage →

and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? — read the full passage →

seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand, — read the full passage →

So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life.

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned. — read the full passage →

Paul, having stayed after this many more days, took his leave of the brothers, and sailed from there for Syria, together with Priscilla and Aquila. He shaved his head in Cenchreae, for he had a vow.

On the Sabbath day we went outside of the city by a riverside, where we supposed there was a place of prayer, and we sat down, and spoke to the women who had come together. — read the full passage →

but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.

For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me.

Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

An oracle. Yahweh’s word concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:

It is he who builds his rooms in the heavens, and has founded his vault on the earth; he who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth; Yahweh is his name.

He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens:

Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spread out the heavens: when I call to them, they stand up together.

For thus says Yahweh who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and didn’t create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited: “I am Yahweh; and there is no other.

As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths.

The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem: — read the full passage →

Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good; for his loving kindness endures forever. — read the full passage →

Bless Yahweh, my soul. Yahweh, my God, you are very great. You are clothed with honor and majesty. — read the full passage →

Say among the nations, “Yahweh reigns.” The world is also established. It can’t be moved. He will judge the peoples with equity.

Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They won’t enter into my rest.”

For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night.

Before the mountains were born, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.

“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding. — read the full passage →

Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind, — read the full passage →

You are Yahweh, even you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their army, the earth and all things that are on it, the seas and all that is in them, and you preserve them all. The army of heaven worships you.

The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

Yahweh said to Moses in Mount Sinai, — read the full passage →

It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.’”

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God’s likeness.

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God’s likeness. — read the full passage →

Yahweh God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever...”

To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bear children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

The serpent said to the woman, “You won’t surely die,

Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’”

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

Yahweh God made a woman from the rib which had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.

Yahweh God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. As the man slept, he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.

but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work of creation which he had done.

On the seventh day God finished his work which he had done; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.

God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.

God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good.

God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs to mark seasons, days, and years;