For this they are wilfully ignorant of, that the heavens were before, and the earth out of water, and through water, consisting by the word of God.
By faith we understand that the world was framed by the word of God; that from invisible things visible things might be made.
God also said: Let the waters that are under the heaven, be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear. And it was so done.
In thee, O my God, I put my trust; let me not be ashamed.
And God said: Let there be a firmament made amidst the waters: and let it divide the waters from the waters.
Let my tongue cleave to my jaws, if I do not remember thee: If I make not Jerusalem the beginning of my joy.
Come ye to him and be enlightened: and your faces shall not be confounded.
And as they liked not to have God in their knowledge, God delivered them up to a reprobate sense, to do those things which are not convenient;
And he is before all, and by him all things consist.
What doth it avail a fool to have riches, seeing he cannot buy wisdom? He that maketh his house high, seeketh a downfall: and he that refuseth to learn, shall fall into evils.