Gen 1:1, Psa 33:6, 124:8, 146:5-6, Pro 8:23-31, Act 4:24, 17:24-28 | ESV | STEP | In the beginning , God created the heavens and the earth .

5 ^fBlessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob,
whose ^ghope is in the Lord his God,
6 ^hwho made heaven and earth,
the sea, and all that is in them,
ⁱwho keeps faith forever;

Proverbs 8:23-31

23 Ages ago I was ^jset up,
at the first, ^kbefore the beginning of the earth.
24 When there were no ^ldepths I was ^mbrought forth,
when there were no springs abounding with water.
25 Before the mountains ⁿhad been shaped,
^obefore the hills, I was brought forth,
26 before he had made the earth with its fields,
or the first of the dust of the world.
27 When he ^pestablished the heavens, I was there;
when he drew ^qa circle on the face of the deep,
28 when he ^rmade firm the skies above,
when he established ^{▼▼The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain} the fountains of the deep,
29 when he ^tassigned to the sea its ^ulimit,
so that the waters might not transgress his command,
when he marked out ^vthe foundations of the earth,
30 then ^wI was beside him, like a master workman,
and I was daily his ^{▼▼Or daily filled with} ^ydelight,
rejoicing before him always,
31 ^zrejoicing in his ^aainhabited world
and delighting in the children of man.

Acts 4:24

24 And when they heard it, they lifted their voices ^abtogether to God and said, “Sovereign Lord, ^acwho made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them,

Acts 17:24-28

24 ^adThe God who made the world and everything in it, being ^aeLord of heaven and earth, ^afdoes not live in temples made by man, ^{▼▼Greek made by hands} 25 nor is he served by human hands, ^ahas though he needed anything, since he himself ^aigives to all mankind ^ajlife and breath and everything. 26 And ^akhe made from one man every nation of mankind to live ^alon all the face of the earth, ^amhaving determined allotted periods and ^anthe boundaries of their dwelling place, 27 ^aothat they should seek God, ^apand perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. ^aqYet he is actually not far from each one of us, 28 for

^ar“‘In him we live and move and have our being’; ^{▼▼Probably from Epimenides of Crete}
as even some of ^atyour own poets have said,

“‘For we are indeed his offspring.’ ^{▼▼From Aratus’s poem “Phainomena”}