Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.

All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

The same was in the beginning with God.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will…

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day…

Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;