Genesis 1:2

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Now the earth was formless and empty, and darkness covered the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.

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  • Jer 4:23 : 23 I looked at the earth, and it was formless and empty; and at the heavens, and their light was gone.
  • Ps 104:30 : 30 When You send forth Your Spirit, they are created, and You renew the face of the earth.
  • Isa 45:18 : 18 For this is what the LORD says—He who created the heavens, He is God, He who formed the earth and made it, He established it, He did not create it to be empty but formed it to be inhabited—He says: 'I am the LORD, and there is no other.'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 1:1
    90%

    1In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

  • Gen 1:3-10
    8 verses
    85%

    3Then God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light.

    4God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness.

    5God called the light 'day,' and the darkness he called 'night.' And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.

    6Then God said, 'Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.'

    7So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so.

    8God called the vault 'sky.' And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.

    9Then God said, 'Let the waters under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.' And it was so.

    10God called the dry ground 'land,' and the gathered waters he called 'seas.' And God saw that it was good.

  • Jer 4:23-24
    2 verses
    83%

    23I looked at the earth, and it was formless and empty; and at the heavens, and their light was gone.

    24I looked at the mountains, and they were quaking; all the hills were swaying.

  • John 1:1-5
    5 verses
    77%

    1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

    2He was in the beginning with God.

    3All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him not a single thing came into being that has come into existence.

    4In Him was life, and that life was the light of mankind.

    5The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

  • Gen 1:13-24
    12 verses
    76%

    13And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.

    14Then God said, 'Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days, and years,

    15and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.' And it was so.

    16God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars.

    17God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth,

    18to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good.

    19And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.

    20Then God said, 'Let the waters teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky.'

    21So God created the great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters teem, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

    22God blessed them and said, 'Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.'

    23And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.

    24Then God said, 'Let the earth bring forth living beings according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind.' And it was so.

  • Gen 2:4-7
    4 verses
    75%

    4These are the records of the heavens and the earth when they were created, on the day the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.

    5No bush of the field had yet appeared on the earth, and no plant of the field had sprouted, for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no one to work the ground.

    6But a mist would rise from the earth and water the entire surface of the ground.

    7Then the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground, breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

  • 2 Pet 3:5-6
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    5For they deliberately ignore this fact: that the heavens existed long ago and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God.

    6Through these, the world of that time was destroyed, being flooded with water.

  • Gen 2:1
    73%

    1So the heavens, the earth, and everything in them were completed.

  • Gen 1:26-28
    3 verses
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    26Then God said, 'Let us make mankind in our image, after our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the livestock, all the earth, and all the creatures that move along the ground.'

    27So God created mankind in his own image; in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.

    28God blessed them and said to them, 'Be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and every living creature that moves on the ground.'

  • Prov 8:26
    70%

    26Before He made the earth, the fields, or the first dust of the world.

  • Heb 1:10
    70%

    10'In the beginning, Lord, You laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands.'

  • Gen 6:11
    69%

    11Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and the earth was filled with violence.

  • Gen 11:1
    69%

    1Now the whole earth had one language and a common speech.

  • Job 10:22
    69%

    22A land of gloom like deep darkness, a land of shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.

  • John 1:10
    69%

    10He was in the world, and though the world was made through Him, the world did not recognize Him.

  • Gen 7:18
    68%

    18The waters prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.

  • Gen 2:19
    68%

    19Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground every beast of the field and every bird of the air. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them. Whatever the man called each living creature, that became its name.

  • Heb 1:1
    68%

    1Long ago, at many times and in various ways, God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets.

  • 2 Sam 22:12
    68%

    12He made darkness his covering around him, dense clouds of water and thick clouds of the skies.

  • Ezek 1:20
    68%

    20Wherever the spirit wanted to go, they went, and the wheels rose along with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.

  • Gen 7:10
    68%

    10And after seven days, the waters of the flood came upon the earth.