Genesis 1:3
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
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- 2 Cor 4:6 : 6 Seeing that it is God who said, Let light be shining out of the dark, who has put in our hearts the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
- John 1:5 : 5 And the light goes on shining in the dark; it is not overcome by the dark.
- 1 John 1:5 : 5 This is the word which came to us from him and which we give to you, that God is light and in him there is nothing dark.
- Ps 33:6 : 6 By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the army of heaven by the breath of his mouth.
- Isa 45:7 : 7 I am the giver of light and the maker of the dark; causing blessing, and sending troubles; I am the Lord, who does all these things.
- Isa 60:19 : 19 The sun will not be your light by day, and the moon will no longer be bright for you by night: but the Lord will be to you an eternal light, and your God your glory.
- Ps 148:5 : 5 Let them give praise to the name of the Lord: for he gave the order, and they were made.
- Ps 33:9 : 9 For he gave the word, and it was done; by his order it was fixed for ever.
- Ps 97:11 : 11 Light is shining on the lovers of righteousness, and for the upright in heart there is joy.
- 1 John 2:8 : 8 Again, I give you a new law, which is true in him and in you; for the night is near its end and the true light is even now shining out.
- Eph 5:14 : 14 For this reason he says, Be awake, you who are sleeping, and come up from among the dead, and Christ will be your light.
- John 1:9 : 9 The true light, which gives light to every man, was then coming into the world.
- John 3:19 : 19 And this is the test by which men are judged: the light has come into the world and men have more love for the dark than for the light, because their acts are evil.
- Ps 104:2 : 2 You are clothed with light as with a robe; stretching out the heavens like a curtain:
- Job 38:19 : 19 Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark;
- Job 36:30 : 30 See, he is stretching out his mist, covering the tops of the mountains with it.
- Ps 118:27 : 27 The Lord is God, and he has given us light; let the holy dance be ordered with branches, even up to the horns of the altar.
- Eph 5:8 : 8 For you at one time were dark, but now are light in the Lord: let your behaviour be that of children of light
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- Gen 1:4-2825 verses87%
4And God, looking on the light, saw that it was good: and God made a division between the light and the dark,
5Naming the light, Day, and the dark, Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.
6And God said, Let there be a solid arch stretching over the waters, parting the waters from the waters.
7And God made the arch for a division between the waters which were under the arch and those which were over it: and it was so.
8And God gave the arch the name of Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.
9And God said, Let the waters under the heaven come together in one place, and let the dry land be seen: and it was so.
10And God gave the dry land the name of Earth; and the waters together in their place were named Seas: and God saw that it was good.
11And God said, Let grass come up on the earth, and plants producing seed, and fruit-trees giving fruit, in which is their seed, after their sort: and it was so.
12And grass came up on the earth, and every plant producing seed of its sort, and every tree producing fruit, in which is its seed, of its sort: and God saw that it was good.
13And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.
14And God said, Let there be lights in the arch of heaven, for a division between the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for marking the changes of the year, and for days and for years:
15And let them be for lights in the arch of heaven to give light on the earth: and it was so.
16And God made the two great lights: the greater light to be the ruler of the day, and the smaller light to be the ruler of the night: and he made the stars.
17And God put them in the arch of heaven, to give light on the earth;
18To have rule over the day and the night, and for a division between the light and the dark: and God saw that it was good.
19And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.
20And God said, Let the waters be full of living things, and let birds be in flight over the earth under the arch of heaven.
21And God made great sea-beasts, and every sort of living and moving thing with which the waters were full, and every sort of winged bird: and God saw that it was good.
22And God gave them his blessing, saying, Be fertile and have increase, making all the waters of the seas full, and let the birds be increased in the earth.
23And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.
24And God said, Let the earth give birth to all sorts of living things, cattle and all things moving on the earth, and beasts of the earth after their sort: and it was so.
25And God made the beast of the earth after its sort, and the cattle after their sort, and everything moving on the face of the earth after its sort: and God saw that it was good.
26And God said, Let us make man in our image, like us: and let him have rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every living thing which goes flat on the earth.
27And God made man in his image, in the image of God he made him: male and female he made them.
28And God gave them his blessing and said to them, Be fertile and have increase, and make the earth full and be masters of it; be rulers over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing moving on the earth.
- Gen 1:1-22 verses85%
1At the first God made the heaven and the earth.
2And the earth was waste and without form; and it was dark on the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God was moving on the face of the waters.
- John 1:1-66 verses78%
1From the first he was the Word, and the Word was in relation with God and was God.
2This Word was from the first in relation with God.
3All things came into existence through him, and without him nothing was.
4What came into existence in him was life, and the life was the light of men.
5And the light goes on shining in the dark; it is not overcome by the dark.
6There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
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23Looking at the earth, I saw that it was waste and without form; and to the heavens, that they had no light.
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5This is the word which came to us from him and which we give to you, that God is light and in him there is nothing dark.
- John 1:9-102 verses74%
9The true light, which gives light to every man, was then coming into the world.
10He was in the world, the world which came into being through him, but the world had no knowledge of him.
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6Seeing that it is God who said, Let light be shining out of the dark, who has put in our hearts the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
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3By faith it is clear to us that the order of events was fixed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made from things which only seem to be.
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1In times past the word of God came to our fathers through the prophets, in different parts and in different ways;
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4These are the generations of the heaven and the earth when they were made.
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31And God saw everything which he had made and it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
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5But in taking this view they put out of their minds the memory that in the old days there was a heaven, and an earth lifted out of the water and circled by water, by the word of God;
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1And the heaven and the earth and all things in them were complete.
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13Before his shining light his dark clouds went past, raining ice and coals of fire.
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1And all the earth had one language and one tongue.
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1That which was from the first, which has come to our ears, and which we have seen with our eyes, looking on it and touching it with our hands, about the Word of life
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10You, Lord, at the first did put the earth on its base, and the heavens are the works of your hands:
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1This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God made man, he made him in the image of God;