life on other planets

¹In the beginning, God created heaven and earth.

¹⁸For thus says the Lord, who created the heavens, God himself who formed the earth and made it, the very Molder of it. He did not create it to no purpose. He formed it so that it would be inhabited. I am the Lord, and there is no other.

²⁴The heaven of heaven is for the Lord, but the earth he has given to the sons of men.

³By faith, we understand the world to be fashioned by the Word of God, so that the visible might be made by the invisible.

¹I saw the new heaven and the new earth. For the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and the sea is no more.

¹⁴I am the good Shepherd, and I know my own, and my own know me, ¹⁵just as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. And I lay down my life for my sheep. ¹⁶And I have other sheep that are not of this fold, and I must lead them. They shall hear my voice, and there shall be one sheepfold and one shepherd. ¹⁷For this reason, the Father loves me: because I lay down my life, so that I may take it up again. ¹⁸No one takes it away from me. Instead, I lay it down of my own accord. And I have the power to lay it down. And I have the power to take it up again. This is the commandment that I have received from my Father.”

¹In many places and in many ways, in past times, God spoke to the fathers through the Prophets; ²lastly, in these days, he has spoken to us through the Son, whom he appointed as the heir of all things, and through whom he made the world.

²⁷And then he will send his Angels, and gather together his elect, from the four winds, from the limits of the earth, to the limits of heaven.

⁴For I will behold your heavens, the works of your fingers: the moon and the stars, which you have founded.

¹³Yet truly, in accord with his promises, we are looking forward to the new heavens and the new earth, in which justice lives.