So Saul got up from the ground, but although his eyes were open, he could see nothing. Leading him by the hand, his companions brought him into Damascus.

He saw heaven opened and an object something like a large sheet descending, being let down to earth by its four corners.

As I stared I looked into it and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, reptiles, and wild birds.

For this is what the Lord has commanded us: ‘I have appointed you to be a light for the Gentiles, to bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’”

The God who made the world and everything in it, who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by human hands,

From one man he made every nation of the human race to inhabit the entire earth, determining their set times and the fixed limits of the places where they would live,

and the rest were to follow, some on planks and some on pieces of the ship. And in this way all were brought safely to land.

If after all there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords),

toward the administration of the fullness of the times, to head up all things in Christ – the things in heaven and the things on earth.

So put to death whatever in your nature belongs to the earth: sexual immorality, impurity, shameful passion, evil desire, and greed which is idolatry.

By faith he lived as a foreigner in the promised land as though it were a foreign country, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who were fellow heirs of the same promise.

(the world was not worthy of them); they wandered in deserts and mountains and caves and openings in the earth.

Elijah was a human being like us, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain and there was no rain on the land for three years and six months!

For they deliberately suppress this fact, that by the word of God heavens existed long ago and an earth was formed out of water and by means of water.

But by the same word the present heavens and earth have been reserved for fire, by being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.

Now I desire to remind you (even though you have been fully informed of these facts once for all) that Jesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, later destroyed those who did not believe.

and the stars in the sky fell to the earth like a fig tree dropping its unripe figs when shaken by a fierce wind.

“Do not damage the earth or the sea or the trees until we have put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.”

Then the angel I saw standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven

Now when the dragon realized that he had been thrown down to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child.