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

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

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

that God's sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose.

The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God's sons came in to men's daughters. They bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

He was afraid, and said, "How dreadful is this place! This is none other than God's house, and this is the gate of heaven."

then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, will be God's house. Of all that you will give me I will surely give the tenth to you."

Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, "Am I in God's place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?"

When he saw them, Jacob said, "This is God's army." He called the name of that place Mahanaim.

Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God's mountain, to Horeb.

Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt. Moses took God's rod in his hand.

Yahweh said to Aaron, "Go into the wilderness to meet Moses." He went, and met him on God's mountain, and kissed him.

Moses said to Joshua, "Choose men for us, and go out, fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with God's rod in my hand."

Moses rose up with Joshua, his servant, and Moses went up onto God's Mountain.

He gave to Moses, when he finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, the two tablets of the testimony, stone tablets, written with God's finger.

"He shall go out to the altar that is before Yahweh and make atonement for it, and shall take some of the bull's blood, and some of the goat's blood, and put it around on the horns of the altar.

God's anger was kindled because he went; and the angel of Yahweh placed himself in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding on his donkey, and his two servants were with him.

You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike; you shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.

For what great nation is there, that has a god so near to them, as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him?

Then your handmaid said, 'Please let the word of my lord the king bring rest; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. May Yahweh, your God, be with you.'"

The counsel of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if a man inquired at the oracle of God: so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.

and he said, "Listen, all Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem, and you king Jehoshaphat. Thus says Yahweh to you, 'Don't be afraid, neither be dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's.

They rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, "Listen to me, Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in Yahweh your God, so you shall be established! Believe his prophets, so you shall prosper."

they joined with their brothers, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of Yahweh our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes;

Now it happened on the day when God's sons came to present themselves before Yahweh, that Satan also came among them.

Again it happened on the day when the God's sons came to present themselves before Yahweh, that Satan came also among them to present himself before Yahweh.

He shall not depart out of darkness. The flame shall dry up his branches. By the breath of God's mouth shall he go away.

"Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, 'My righteousness is more than God's,'

"Bear with me a little, and I will show you; for I still have something to say on God's behalf.

As is your name, God, so is your praise to the ends of the earth. Your right hand is full of righteousness.

Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God's salvation to him." For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.

Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God's loving kindness endures continually.

But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God's house. I trust in God's loving kindness forever and ever.

We took sweet fellowship together. We walked in God's house with company.

He shall be enthroned in God's presence forever. Appoint your loving kindness and truth, that they may preserve him.

Come, and see God's deeds -- awesome work on behalf of the children of men.

Until I entered God's sanctuary, and considered their latter end.

They didn't keep God's covenant, and refused to walk in his law.

The mountains were covered with its shadow. Its boughs were like God's cedars.

who said, "Let us take possession of God's pasturelands."

They are planted in Yahweh's house. They will flourish in our God's courts.

you who stand in the house of Yahweh, in the courts of our God's house.

Guard your steps when you go to God's house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don't know that they do evil.

All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn't sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath.

Tell those who have a fearful heart, "Be strong. Don't be afraid. Behold, your God will come with vengeance, God's retribution. He will come and save you.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God's law, I will also forget your children.

Take words with you, and return to Yahweh. Tell him, "Forgive all our sins, and accept that which is good: so we offer our lips like bulls.

Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests! Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, for the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your God's house.

But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, won't he much more clothe you, you of little faith?

But seek first God's Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

The disciples said to him, "Where should we get so many loaves in a deserted place as to satisfy so great a multitude?"

They said to him, "Caesar's." Then he said to them, "Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like God's angels in heaven.

Jesus answered them, "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." They marveled greatly at him.

All flesh will see God's salvation.'"

But seek God's Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.

He said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, for the Kingdom of God's sake,

He said to them, "Then give to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God's children, to those who believe in his name:

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.

Most certainly, I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God's voice; and those who hear will live.

But I know you, that you don't have God's love in yourselves.

But when Jesus heard it, he said, "This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God's Son may be glorified by it."

She said to him, "Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Christ, God's Son, he who comes into the world."

Jesus said to her, "Didn't I tell you that if you believed, you would see God's glory?"

for they loved men's praise more than God's praise.

To these he also showed himself alive after he suffered, by many proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days, and speaking about God's Kingdom.

Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, "It was necessary that God's word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.

Those who stood by said, "Do you malign God's high priest?"

For in it is revealed God's righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, "But the righteous shall live by faith."

whom God set forth to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God's forbearance;

and hope doesn't disappoint us, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God's wrath through him.

For I delight in God's law after the inward man,

I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God's law, but with the flesh, the sin's law.

because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.

Who could bring a charge against God's chosen ones? It is God who justifies.

For being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn't subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

Don't seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God's wrath. For it is written, "Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord."

For this reason you also pay taxes, for they are servants of God's service, attending continually on this very thing.

Don't overthrow God's work for food's sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.

in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God's Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Good News of Christ;

For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn't know God, it was God's good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.

But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,

For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God, except God's Spirit.

Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's farming, God's building.

Don't you know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you?

If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, which you are.

and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.

So let a man think of us as Christ's servants, and stewards of God's mysteries.

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgment, and I think that I also have God's Spirit.

But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God's assemblies.

What, don't you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God's assembly, and put them to shame who don't have? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don't praise you.

Therefore I make known to you that no man speaking by God's Spirit says, "Jesus is accursed." No one can say, "Jesus is Lord," but by the Holy Spirit.

Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God's Good News free of charge?

As many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them, and on God's Israel.

who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God's own possession, to the praise of his glory.

and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God's growth.