It does a fool no good to spend money on an education, because he has no common sense.

This is how the judgment works: the light has come into the world, but people love the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds are evil.

Those who do evil things hate the light and will not come to the light, because they do not want their evil deeds to be shown up.

Because those people refuse to keep in mind the true knowledge about God, he has given them over to corrupted minds, so that they do the things that they should not do.

and use every kind of wicked deceit on those who will perish. They will perish because they did not welcome and love the truth so as to be saved.

The result is that all who have not believed the truth, but have taken pleasure in sin, will be condemned.

Then God commanded, "Let there be a dome to divide the water and to keep it in two separate places"---and it was done. So God made a dome, and it separated the water under it from the water above it.

Then God commanded, "Let the water below the sky come together in one place, so that the land will appear"---and it was done.

He built it on the deep waters beneath the earth and laid its foundations in the ocean depths.

The LORD created the heavens by his command, the sun, moon, and stars by his spoken word.

he built the earth on the deep waters; his love is eternal.

It is by faith that we understand that the universe was created by God's word, so that what can be seen was made out of what cannot be seen.

Christ existed before all things, and in union with him all things have their proper place.