In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.

And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.

Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:

For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.

Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;

Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved.

Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.

But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:

Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.

One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.