I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes…
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
… the righteous judgment of God [is coming]… on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus
The Gospel Concerns Jesus — Romans 1:1-6
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
- God spoke & it came to be
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6) By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and by the breath of his mouth all their host. 9) For he spoke, and it came to be; he commanded, and it stood firm.
- Jesus (the Word) was God & He Made All Things
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1) In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2) He was in the beginning with God. 3) All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.
- Jesus Made the World
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10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. 11 He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. 12) But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, 13) who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. 14) And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. 17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
- Jesus Took the Form of a Servant
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5) Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 6) who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7) but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8) And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
— Scott R