²⁶ Then God said, “Let ^(A)Us make ^(B)man in Our image, according to Our likeness, so that they will have ^(C)dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the ^[a]sky and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” ²⁷ And God created man ^(D)in His own image, in the image of God He created him; ^(E)male and female He created them. ²⁸ God blessed them, and God said to them, “^(F)Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the ^[b]sky and over every living thing that creeps on the earth.”

^13 (A)I do not want you to be unaware, ^(B)brothers, that often I ^(C)have planned to come to you (and have been prevented so far) so that I may have some ^(D)fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.