In The Beginning: Genesis 1:1-5 | John 1:1-5, 10 | Hebrews 1:1-2 | Colossians 1:12-18

Genesis 1:1: "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth."

Genesis 1:2: "And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters."

Genesis 1:3: "And God said, Let there be light: and there was light."

Genesis 1:4: "And God saw the light, that it was good:" [See 2 Corinthians 4:1-3 2 Corinthians 4:1: "Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;"

2 Corinthians 4:2: "But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God."

2 Corinthians 4:3: "But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:" | 4-6 2 Corinthians 4:4: "In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them."

2 Corinthians 4:5: "For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake."

2 Corinthians 4:6: "For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ." ] "and God divided the light from the darkness." See John 3:19-20 John 3:19: "And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil."

John 3:20: "For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved." and
1 Thessalonians 5:5-7 1 Thessalonians 5:5: "Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness."

1 Thessalonians 5:6: "Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober."

1 Thessalonians 5:7: "For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night." | 8-10 1 Thessalonians 5:8: "But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation."

1 Thessalonians 5:9: "For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,"

1 Thessalonians 5:10: "Who died for us," [The children of the light/the day] "that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him." .

Genesis 1:5: "And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day."

Note: For more information read Genesis 1:6-31.

John 1:1: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

John 1:2: "The same was in the beginning with God."

John 1:3: "All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made."

John 1:4: "In him was life; and the life was the light of men."

John 1:5: "And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not."

John 1:10: "He" [Jesus Christ] "was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not."

Hebrews 1:1: "God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,"

Hebrews 1:2: "Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;"

Colossians 1:12: "Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:"

Colossians 1:13: "Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:"

Colossians 1:14: "In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:"

Colossians 1:15: "Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:"

Colossians 1:16: "For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:"

Colossians 1:17: "And he is before all things, and by him all things consist."

Colossians 1:18: "And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence."