For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.
Lift up your eyes on high and see: who created these? He who brings out their host by number, calling them all by name; by the greatness of his might and because he is strong in power, not one is missing.
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge. There is no speech, nor are there words, whose voice is not heard. Their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun, which comes out like a bridegroom leaving his chamber, and, like a strong man, runs its course with joy.
When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and by the breath of his mouth all their host. He gathers the waters of the sea as a heap; he puts the deeps in storehouses. Let all the earth fear the Lord; let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him! For he spoke, and it came to be; he commanded, and it stood firm.
They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them
No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known.
If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have been guilty of sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.
To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily,
For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb.
Your faithfulness endures to all generations; you have established the earth, and it stands fast.
He set the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be moved.
how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things.
And beware lest you raise your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, you be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them, things that the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
“Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes, but see not, who have ears, but hear not.
Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
May the glory of the Lord endure forever; may the Lord rejoice in his works,
who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.
but has now been disclosed and through the prophetic writings has been made known to all nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith—
Being then God's offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man.
fire and hail, snow and mist, stormy wind fulfilling his word! Mountains and all hills, fruit trees and all cedars! Beasts and all livestock, creeping things and flying birds! Kings of the earth and all peoples, princes and all rulers of the earth! Young men and maidens together, old men and children!
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. And he thrust out the enemy before you and said, ‘Destroy.’
By faith he left Egypt, not being afraid of the anger of the king, for he endured as seeing him who is invisible.
if I have looked at the sun when it shone, or the moon moving in splendor, and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my mouth has kissed my hand, this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges, for I would have been false to God above.
so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba and called there on the name of the Lord, the Everlasting God.
“Brothers and fathers, hear the defense that I now make before you.”
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