⁵ for this is unobserved by them willingly, that the heavens were of old, and the earth out of water and through water standing together by the word of God,

³ by faith we understand the ages to have been prepared by a saying of God, in regard to the things seen not having come out of things appearing;

² For He on the seas hath founded it, And on the floods He doth establish it.

⁹ And God saith, `Let the waters under the heavens be collected unto one place, and let the dry land be seen:' and it is so.

⁶ And God saith, `Let an expanse be in the midst of the waters, and let it be separating between waters and waters.'

⁶ To Him spreading the earth over the waters, For to the age `is' His kindness.

¹⁰ and in all deceitfulness of the unrighteousness in those perishing, because the love of the truth they did not receive for their being saved,

¹¹ and because of this shall God send to them a working of delusion, for their believing the lie,

¹² that they may be judged -- all who did not believe the truth, but were well pleased in the unrighteousness.

⁶ By the word of Jehovah The heavens have been made, And by the breath of His mouth all their host.

¹⁷ and himself is before all, and the all things in him have consisted.

²⁸ And, according as they did not approve of having God in knowledge, God gave them up to a disapproved mind, to do the things not seemly;

¹⁹ `And this is the judgment, that the light hath come to the world, and men did love the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil;

²⁰ for every one who is doing wicked things hateth the light, and doth not come unto the light, that his works may not be detected;

¹⁶ Why `is' this -- a price in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, And a heart there is none?