Why has the fool wealth? For a senseless man will not be able to purchase wisdom. [ 17:16A] He that exalts his own house seeks ruin, and he that turns aside from instruction shall fall into mischief.

And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness more than the light, because their works were evil.

For everyone that does evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works be exposed.

And just as they did not approve to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do the things which are not fitting;

and in all deception of unrighteousness among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

so that they all might be damned who did not believe the truth, but delighted in unrighteousness.

And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the water, and let it be a division between water and water, and it was so.

And God said, Let the water which is under the heaven be collected into one place, and let the dry land appear, and it was so. And the water which was under the heaven was collected into its places, and the dry land appeared.

He has founded it upon the seas, and prepared it upon the rivers.

By the word of the Lord the heavens were established; and all the host of them by the breath of His [mouth].

To Him who established the earth on the waters; for His mercy [endures] forever.

By faith we understand that time [itself] was framed by a word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.

And He is before all things, and in Him all things are held together.