Criação
A criação revela a glória de Deus. Céus, terra, mares e tudo o que existe testemunham o poder criador. No princípio Deus criou — e tudo era muito bom.
No princípio
No princípio criou Deus os céus e a terra. O Espírito de Deus pairava sobre as águas. E Deus disse: haja luz.
In the beginning, when God created the universe,the earth was formless and desolate. The raging ocean that covered everything was engulfed in total darkness, and the Spirit of God was moving over the water.
Then God said, "And now we will make human beings; they will be like us and resemble us. They will have power over the fish, the birds, and all animals, domestic and wild, large and small."
So God created human beings, making them to be like himself. He created them male and female,
He blessed the seventh day and set it apart as a special day, because by that day he had completed his creation and stopped working.
Then the Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to live alone. I will make a suitable companion to help him."
O poder criador
Pela palavra do Senhor foram feitos os céus. Tudo foi criado por Ele e para Ele — o visível e o invisível.
The Lord created the heavens by his command,
the sun, moon, and stars by his spoken word.
Before you created the hills
or brought the world into being,
you were eternally God,
and will be God forever.
Come, let us bow down and worship him;
let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker!
I look to the mountains;
where will my help come from?
My help will come from the Lord,
who made heaven and earth.
Our help comes from the Lord,
who made heaven and earth.
This is the day of the Lord's victory;
let us be happy, let us celebrate!
You created every part of me;
you put me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you because you are to be feared;
all you do is strange and wonderful.
I know it with all my heart.
Criador e Sustentador
O Deus eterno não se cansa nem se fatiga. Dele, por Ele e para Ele são todas as coisas — a Ele seja a glória.
Don’t you know? Haven’t you heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God;
he created all the world.
He never grows tired or weary.
No one understands his thoughts.
Does a clay pot dare argue with its maker,
a pot that is like all the others?
Does the clay ask the potter what he is doing?
Does the pot complain that its maker has no skill?
"Sovereign Lord, you made the earth and the sky by your great power and might; nothing is too difficult for you.
The Lord builds his home in the heavens,
and over the earth he puts the dome of the sky.
He calls for the waters of the sea
and pours them out on the earth.
His name is the Lord!
For all things were created by him, and all things exist through him and for him. To God be the glory forever! Amen.
Ever since God created the world, his invisible qualities, both his eternal power and his divine nature, have been clearly seen; they are perceived in the things that God has made. So those people have no excuse at all!
All of creation waits with eager longing for God to reveal his children.
Nova criação
Se alguém está em Cristo, nova criatura é. O Criador faz novas todas as coisas — na natureza e na redenção.
Anyone who is joined to Christ is a new being; the old is gone, the new has come.
God has made us what we are, and in our union with Christ Jesus he has created us for a life of good deeds, which he has already prepared for us to do.
By his own will he brought us into being through the word of truth, so that we should have first place among all his creatures.
Every house, of course, is built by someone—and God is the one who has built all things.
as someone has said,
‘In him we live and move and exist.’
It is as some of your poets have said,
‘We too are his children.’
And I heard every creature in heaven, on earth, in the world below, and in the sea—all living beings in the universe—and they were singing:
"To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb,
be praise and honor, glory and might,
forever and ever!"