¹⁵ “Men, ^(A)why are you doing these things? We also are men, ^(B)of like nature with you, and we bring you good news, that ^(C)you should turn from these ^(D)vain things to ^(E)a living God, ^(F)who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them.

⁷ And he said with a loud voice, ^(A)“Fear God and ^(B)give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come, and ^(C)worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the ^(D)springs of water.”

The Creation of the World

1 In the ^(A)beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

¹⁹ And he blessed him and said,

¹¹ Thus shall you say to them: ^(A)“The gods who did not make the heavens and the earth ^(B)shall perish from the earth and from under the heavens.”^[a]