Bible verses about "evolution" | Bishops

²⁶ God saide: let vs make man in our image, after our lykenesse, and let them haue rule of the fisshe of the sea, & of the foule of the ayre, and of cattell, & of all the earth, and of euery creepyng thyng that creepeth vpon the earth

³⁰ There is no wysdome, there is no vnderstanding, there is no counsayle against the Lorde

¹³ For thou hast my reynes in thy possession: thou didst couer me in my mothers wombe ¹⁴ I wyll confesse it vnto thee, for that thy [doynges] are to be dreaded, I am made after a marueylous sort: thy workes be marueylous, and that my soule knoweth ryght well

¹ In the begynnyng was the worde, & the worde was with God: and that worde was God ² The same was in the begynnyng with God ³ All thynges were made by it: and without it, was made nothyng that was made ⁴ In it was lyfe, and the lyfe was the lyght of men ⁵ And the lyght shyneth in darkenesse: and the darknesse comprehended it not ⁶ There was a man sent from God, whose name was Iohn ⁷ The same came for a witnesse, to beare witnesse of the lyght, that all men through hym myght beleue ⁸ He was not that lyght: but was sent to beare witnesse of the lyght ⁹ That [lyght] was the true lyght, which lyghteth euery man that commeth into the worlde ¹⁰ He was in the worlde, and the worlde was made by hym, and the worlde knewe hym not ¹¹ He came among his owne, and his owne receaued hym not ¹² But as many as receaued hym, to them gaue he power to be the sonnes of God, euen them that beleued on his name ¹³ Which were borne, not of blood, nor of the wyll of the fleshe, nor yet of the wyll of man, but of God ¹⁴ And the same word became fleshe, and dwelt among vs ( and we sawe the glory of it, as the glory of the only begotten sonne of the father) full of grace and trueth ¹⁵ Iohn beareth witnesse of hym, and cryeth, saying: This was he of whom I spake, he that commeth after me, is preferred before me, for he was before me ¹⁶ And of his fulnesse haue all we receaued, and grace for grace ¹⁷ For the lawe was geuen by Moyses: but grace and trueth came by Iesus Christe ¹⁸ No man hath seene God at any tyme: The onely begotten sonne which is in the bosome of the father, he hath declared hym ¹⁹ And this is the recorde of Iohn: When the Iewes sent priestes and leuites from Hierusalem, to aske hym: What art thou ²⁰ And he confessed and denyed not, and sayde playnely, I am not that Christe ²¹ And they asked hym: What then? art thou Elias? And he sayth, I am not. Art thou that prophete? And he aunswered, no ²² Then sayde they vnto hym: What art thou? that we may geue an aunswere to them that sent vs: What sayest thou of thy selfe ²³ He sayde: I am the voyce of a cryer in the wildernesse, make strayght the way of the Lorde, as sayde the prophete Esaias ²⁴ And they which were sent, were of the pharisees ²⁵ And they asked hym, and sayde vnto hym: Why baptizest thou then, yf thou be not Christe, nor Elias, neither that prophete ²⁶ Iohn aunswered them, saying: I baptize with water, but there standeth one among you, whom ye knowe not ²⁷ He it is, which though he came after me, was before me, whose shoes latchet I am not worthy to vnloose ²⁸ These thynges were done in Bethabara beyonde Iordane, where Iohn dyd baptize ²⁹ The next day, Iohn seeth Iesus comming vnto hym, and saith, beholde the lambe of God, which taketh away the sinne of the worlde ³⁰ This is he of whom I sayde, After me commeth a man, which is preferred before me, for he was before me ³¹ And I knewe hym not: but that he shoulde be declared to Israel, therfore am I come, baptizing with water ³² And Iohn bare recorde, saying: I sawe the spirite descende from heauen, lyke vnto a doue, and abode vpon hym ³³ And knewe hym not. But he that sent me to baptize with water, the same saide vnto me: vpon whom thou shalt see the spirite descende, and tary styll on hym, the same is he which baptizeth with the holy ghost ³⁴ And I sawe, and bare recorde, that he is the sonne of God ³⁵ The next day after, Iohn stoode agayne, and two of his disciples ³⁶ And he behelde Iesus as he walked by, & sayth: beholde the lambe of God ³⁷ And the two disciples hearde hym speake, and they folowed Iesus ³⁸ And Iesus turned about, and sawe them folowe hym, & sayth vnto them: What seeke ye? They sayde vnto hym: Rabbi (which is to say yf one interprete it, Maister) where dwellest thou ³⁹ He sayeth vnto them: come and see. They came, and sawe where he dwelt, and abode with hym that day: For it was about the tenth houre ⁴⁰ One of the two which hearde Iohn speake, & folowed hym, was Andrewe, Simon Peters brother ⁴¹ The same founde his brother Simon first, and sayth vnto hym: We haue founde Messias, which is by interpretation, the annoynted ⁴² And brought hym to Iesus. And Iesus behelde hym, and sayde: Thou art Simon the sonne of Iona, thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, a stone ⁴³ The day folowyng, Iesus woulde go into Galilee, & founde Philip, and sayth vnto hym, folowe me ⁴⁴ Philip was of Bethsaida, the citie of Andrewe and Peter ⁴⁵ Philip founde Nathanael, and sayth vnto hym: We haue founde hym, of whom Moyses in the lawe, and the prophetes, dyd write: Iesus of Nazareth, the sonne of Ioseph ⁴⁶ And Nathanael sayde vnto hym: Can there any good thyng come out of Nazareth? Philip sayth vnto him: come and see ⁴⁷ Iesus sawe Nathanael commyng to hym, & sayeth of hym: Beholde a ryght Israelite, in whom is no guile ⁴⁸ Nathanael sayth vnto hym: Whence knewest thou me? Iesus aunswered, and sayde vnto hym: Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast vnder the fygge tree, I sawe thee ⁴⁹ Nathanael aunswered, and sayde vnto hym: Rabbi, thou art euen the [very] sonne of God, thou art ye kyng of Israel ⁵⁰ Iesus aunswered, & sayde vnto hym: Because I sayde vnto thee, I saw thee vnder the fygge tree, thou beleuest: Thou shalt see greater thynges then these ⁵¹ And he sayth vnto hym: Ueryly, veryly I say vnto you, hereafter shall ye see heauen open, and the Angels of God ascendyng & descendyng vpon the sonne of man

³ This first vnderstande, that there shall come in the laste dayes mockers, whiche wyll walke after their owne lustes ⁴ And say: Where is the promise of his commyng? For sence the fathers dyed, all thynges continue a lyke from the begynnyng of the creation ⁵ For this they knowe not (and that wylfully) howe that the heauens were of olde, and the earth that was of the water, and by the water, by the worde of God ⁶ By the which thinges the world that then was, perisshed, beyng then ouerrunne with water

⁸ Dearely beloued, be not ignoraunt of this one thyng, howe that one day is with the Lorde as a thousande yere, & a thousande yere as one day

²⁰ For his inuisible thinges, being vnderstanded by his workes, through the creation of the worlde, are seene, that is, both his eternall power and godhead: So that they are without excuse ²¹ Because that when they knewe God, they glorified hym not as God, neither were thankefull, but waxed full of vanities in their imaginations, and their foolishe heart was blynded ²² When they counted them selues wyse, they became fooles ²³ And turned the glorie of the immortall God, vnto an image, made not only after the similitude of a mortal man, but also of birdes, and foure footed beastes, and of crepyng beastes ²⁴ Wherefore God gaue them vp to vncleanenesse, through the lustes of their owne heartes, to defyle their owne bodies among them selues ²⁵ Whiche chaunged his trueth for a lye, and worshipped and serued the creature, more then the creator, which is to be praysed for euer. Amen ²⁶ Wherefore God gaue them vp vnto shamefull lustes: For euen their women dyd chaunge the naturall vse, into that which is agaynst nature ²⁷ And likewise also, the men left the naturall vse of the woman, and brent in their lustes one with another, and men with men wrought fylthynesse, and receaued to them selues the rewarde of their errour (as it was accordyng

²¹ And God created great whales, and euery lyuyng & mouing creature, which the waters brought foorth after theyr kynde, & euery fethered foule after their kynde: and God saw that it was good

²⁴ Thus saith the Lorde thy redeemer, euen he that fassioned thee from thy mothers wombe: I the Lorde do all thinges my selfe alone, I only spreade out the heauens, and I only haue laide abrode the earth by my owne selfe ²⁵ I destroy the tokens of witches, and make the soothsayers fooles: As for the wise I turne them backwarde, and make their cunning foolishnesse

⁸ Beware lest any man spoyle you through philosophie & vayne deceipt, after the tradition of men, and after the rudimentes of the worlde, and not after Christe

¹ Fayth is the grounde of thynges hoped for, the euidence of thynges not seene ² For by it, the elders obtayned a good report ³ Through fayth, we vnderstande that the worldes were ordeined by the word of God, and that thynges whiche are seene, were made of thynges whiche were not seene

¹⁶ For by him were all thinges created, that are in heaue and that are in earth, visible and inuisible, whether [they be] maiestie or lordeshippe, either rule or power: All thynges were created by hym and for hym ¹⁷ And he is before all thynges, and in hym all thynges consist

⁷ The Lorde God also dyd shape man, [euen] dust fro of the grounde, & breathed into his nosethrylles the breath of lyfe, and man was a lyuyng soule

¹ In the beginnyng GOD created ye heauen and the earth

³ All thynges were made by it: and without it, was made nothyng that was made