God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM”; and He said, “Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”

For just as the Father has life in Himself, even so He gave to the Son also to have life in Himself;

The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands;

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”

Before the mountains were born
Or You gave birth to the earth and the world,
Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.

who alone possesses immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see. To Him be honor and eternal dominion! Amen.

Abraham planted a tamarisk tree at Beersheba, and there he called on the name of the Lord, the Everlasting God.

“Of old You founded the earth,
And the heavens are the work of Your hands.
“Even they will perish, but You endure;
And all of them will wear out like a garment;
Like clothing You will change them and they will be changed.
“But You are the same,
And Your years will not come to an end.

In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men.