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27And God created man to his own image; to the image of God he created him; male and female, he created them.

26And he said: “Let us make Man to our image and likeness. And let him rule over the fish of the sea, and the flying creatures of the air, and the wild beasts, and the entire earth, and every animal that moves on the earth.”

7And then the Lord God formed man from the clay of the earth, and he breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

19Or do you not know that your bodies are the Temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? 20For you have been bought at a great price. Glorify and carry God in your body.

2And do not choose to be conformed to this age, but instead choose to be reformed in the newness of your mind, so that you may demonstrate what is the will of God: what is good, and what is well-pleasing, and what is perfect.

16For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that all who believe in him may not perish, but may have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world, in order to judge the world, but in order that the world may be saved through him.

3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy has regenerated us into a living hope, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead:

5What is man, that you are mindful of him, or the son of man, that you visit him? 6You reduced him to a little less than the Angels; you have crowned him with glory and honor, 7and you have set him over the works of your hands. 8You have subjected all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, and in addition: the beasts of the field, 9the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, which pass through the paths of the sea.

9Do you not know that the iniquitous will not possess the kingdom of God? Do not choose to wander astray. For neither fornicators, nor servants of idolatry, nor adulterers,