"And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God" (Revelation 3:14).

"For He taught His disciples, and said unto them, The Son of man is delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill Him; and after that He is killed, He shall rise the third day. But they understood not that saying, and were afraid to ask Him" (Mark 9:31-32).

"And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth" (Genesis 7:17).

"And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit" (I Cor-inthians 15:45).

"For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of Him who hath subjected the same in hope" (Romans 8:20).