Genesis 1:5

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

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  • Ps 74:16 : 16 The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the light and the sun.
  • Ps 104:20 : 20 You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the animals of the forest come out.
  • Isa 45:7 : 7 I form the light and create darkness; I make peace and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.
  • Jer 33:20 : 20 This is what the Lord says: If you could break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night so that day and night would not come at their appointed time,
  • 1 Cor 3:13 : 13 each one’s work will become evident, for the Day will make it clear because it will be revealed by fire. The fire will test the quality of each one’s work.
  • Gen 1:8 : 8 God called the vault 'sky.' And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
  • Gen 1:13 : 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
  • Gen 1:19 : 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
  • Gen 1:23 : 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
  • Gen 1:31 : 31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
  • Gen 8:22 : 22 For as long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease."
  • Ps 19:2 : 2 The heavens declare the glory of God, and the expanse proclaims the work of His hands.
  • Eph 5:13 : 13 But everything exposed by the light becomes visible, for everything that is made visible is light.
  • 1 Thess 5:5 : 5 You are all children of the light and children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness.

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

    2Now 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.

    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.

  • Gen 1:6-24
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    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.

    11Then God said, 'Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their kinds, on the earth.' And it was so.

    12The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.

    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 1:31
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    31God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.

  • Gen 2:3-4
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    3Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it He rested from all the work of creation that He had done.

    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.

  • 1 John 1:5
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    5This is the message we have heard from Him and declare to you: God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all.

  • John 1:1-5
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    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 5:1-2
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    1This is the record of the generations of Adam. When God created mankind, He made them in the likeness of God.

    2He created them male and female, and He blessed them and named them 'Mankind' on the day they were created.

  • Jer 4:23
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    23I looked at the earth, and it was formless and empty; and at the heavens, and their light was gone.

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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.'

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    7It will be a unique day—known only to the Lord—not day nor night, but at evening time there will be light.

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

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    12They make night into day: ‘The light is near,’ they say, in the presence of darkness.

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    16The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the light and the sun.

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    1For the choirmaster: A psalm of David.

    2The heavens declare the glory of God, and the expanse proclaims the work of His hands.

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    12even the darkness will not be dark to You; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to You.

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    5The sun rises, and the sun sets, and it hurries back to where it rises.

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    20Won’t the day of the Lord be darkness and not light, gloom with no brightness in it?

  • Job 38:12
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    12Have you ever commanded the morning or shown the dawn its place,

  • Zeph 1:15
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    15That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of devastation and desolation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness.