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 God created the heavens and the earth.
And the earth was without order, and empty; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over the beasts and over all the earth and over every serpent that moves upon the earth.
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it because in it he had rested from all his work which God created in perfection.
And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for 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.
By the word of the Lord were the heavens made, and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
O come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord our maker.
I will lift up mine eyes unto the mountains, from whence cometh my help.
My help comes from the Lord, who made the heavens and earth.
Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made the heaven and the earth.
This is the day which the Lord has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.
For thou hast possessed my kidneys: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.
I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvellous are thy works, and that, my soul knows right well.
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.
Hast thou not known? Hast thou not heard that the God of the age is the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth? He does not faint, nor is he weary; and there is no one that can attain to his intelligence.
Woe unto him that strives with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashions it, What doth thou make; thy work has no form?
Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing hidden from thee;
He that built his degrees in the heaven and has founded his gathering upon the earth; he that calls the waters of the sea and pours them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name.
For of him and by him and in him are all things. To him be the glory for the ages. Amen.
For the invisible things of him, his eternal power and divinity, are clearly understood by the creation of the world and by the things that are made so that there is no excuse;
For the earnest hope of the creatures waits for the manifestation of the sons of God.
Nova criação
Se alguém está em Cristo, nova criatura é. O Criador faz novas todas as coisas — na natureza e na redenção.
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, they are a new creation: old things are passed away; behold, all things are made new.
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God has prepared that we should walk in them.
He, of his own will, has begotten us with the word of truth, that we should be the firstfruits of his creatures.
For every house is built by someone, but he that created all things is God.
for in him we live and move and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also of his lineage.
And I heard every creature which is in heaven and upon the earth and under the earth and such as are upon the sea and all that are in it, saying, Blessing and honour and glory and power, be unto him that is seated upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.