| The Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.1 |
| I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret. … Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.2 |
| Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us?3 – In him we live, and move, and have our being.4 – Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.5 |
| He, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath. For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.6 |
