Hebrews 11:3

By faith we understand that the worlds ¹  were set in order at God’s command, ²  so that the visible has its origin in the invisible. ³ 

Ge 1:1-31; Ge 2:1; Ps 33:6; Isa 40:26; Jer 10:11,16; Joh 1:3; Ac 14:15; Ac 17:24; Ro 1:19-21; Ro 4:17; Heb 1:2; 2Pe 3:5; Re 4:11

¹ tn Grk “ages.” The temporal (ages) came to be used of the spatial (what exists in those time periods). See Heb 1:2 for same usage.

² tn Grk “by God’s word.”

³ sn The Greek phrasing emphasizes this point by negating the opposite: “so that what is seen did not come into being from things that are visible.”