universe
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3By faith, we understand the world to be fashioned by the Word of God, so that the visible might be made by the invisible.
1In the beginning, God created heaven and earth. 2But the earth was empty and unoccupied, and darknesses were over the face of the abyss; and so the Spirit of God was brought over the waters. 3And God said, “Let there be light.” And light became. 4And God saw the light, that it was good; and so he divided the light from the darknesses. 5And he called the light, ‘Day,’ and the darknesses, ‘Night.’ And it became evening and morning, one day. 6God also said, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide waters from waters.”
22He is the One who sits upon the globe of the earth, and its inhabitants are like locusts. He extends the heavens as if they were nothing, and he spreads them out like a tent, in which to dwell.
4For I will behold your heavens, the works of your fingers: the moon and the stars, which you have founded. 5What is man, that you are mindful of him, or the son of man, that you visit him?
2The heavens describe the glory of God, and the firmament announces the work of his hands.
3All things were made through Him, and nothing that was made was made without Him.
7He stretched out the North over emptiness, and he suspended the land over nothing.
26Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these things. He leads forth their army by number, and he calls them all by name. Because of the fullness of his strength and robustness and virtue, not one of them was left behind.
4He numbers the multitude of the stars, and he calls them all by their names.
3And since the Son is the brightness of his glory, and the figure of his substance, and is carrying all things by the Word of his virtue, thereby accomplishing a purging of sins, he sits at the right hand of Majesty on high.
14Then God said: “Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven. And let them divide day from night, and let them become signs, both of the seasons, and of the days and years.
6By the word of the Lord, the heavens were established, and all their power, by the Spirit of his mouth:
1In the beginning, God created heaven and earth.