For from him and through him and for him are all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen.

Ah, Sovereign Lord, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too hard for you.

Yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live.

The Lord has done it this very day; let us rejoice today and be glad.

“Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

Yet you, Lord, are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.

For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.

And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the whole world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.

Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!

So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.

For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.

He builds his lofty palace in the heavens and sets its foundation on the earth; he calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out over the face of the land— the Lord is his name.

I lift up my eyes to the mountains— where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.

Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all that is in them, saying: “To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power, for ever and ever!”

Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come and the years approach when you will say, “I find no pleasure in them”.

The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”

For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.

Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.

Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.

Our help is in the name of the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.

He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.

Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom.

By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, their starry host by the breath of his mouth.

For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.

Woe to those who quarrel with their Maker, those who are nothing but potsherds among the potsherds on the ground. Does the clay say to the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘The potter has no hands’?

Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.” That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.

God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”

Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”