Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it?

And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.

By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his mercy endureth for ever.

Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.