Genesis 1:2
And the earth was waste and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
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Referenced Verses
- Jer 4:23 : 23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
- Ps 104:30 : 30 Thou sendest forth thy Spirit, they are created; And thou renewest the face of the ground.
- Isa 45:18 : 18 For thus saith Jehovah that created the heavens, the God that formed the earth and made it, that established it and created it not a waste, that formed it to be inhabited: I am Jehovah; and there is none else.
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1In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
- Gen 1:3-108 verses85%
3And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
5And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.
6And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
7And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
8And God called the firmament Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.
9And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
10And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
- Jer 4:23-242 verses83%
23I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
24I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved to and fro.
- John 1:1-55 verses77%
1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2The same was in the beginning with God.
3All things were made through him; and without him was not anything made that hath been made.
4In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
5And the light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness apprehended it not.
- Gen 1:13-2412 verses76%
13And there was evening and there was morning, a third day.
14And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years:
15and let them be for lights in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
16And God made the two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: [he made] the stars also.
17And God set them in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth,
18and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
19And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.
20And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
21And God created the great sea-monsters, and every living creature that moveth, wherewith the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind: and God saw that it was good.
22And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.
23And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
24And God said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth after their kind: and it was so.
- Gen 2:4-74 verses75%
4These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Jehovah God made earth and heaven.
5And no plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Jehovah God had not caused it to rain upon the earth: and there was not a man to till the ground;
6but there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
7And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
- 2 Pet 3:5-62 verses73%
5For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth compacted out of water and amidst water, by the word of God;
6by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
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1And the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
- Gen 1:26-283 verses71%
26And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28And God blessed them: and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
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26While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, Nor the beginning of the dust of the world.
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10And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning didst lay the foundation of the earth, And the heavens are the works of thy hands:
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11And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
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1And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
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22The land dark as midnight, [The land] of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as midnight.
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10He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world knew him not.
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18And the waters prevailed, and increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.
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19And out of the ground Jehovah God formed every beast of the field, and every bird of the heavens; and brought them unto the man to see what he would call them: and whatsoever the man called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
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1God, having of old time spoken unto the fathers in the prophets by divers portions and in divers manners,
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12And he made darkness pavilions round about him, Gathering of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
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20Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went; thither was the spirit to go: and the wheels were lifted up beside them; for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
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10And it came to pass after the seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.