Genesis 1:2

Geneva Bible (1560)

And the earth was without forme and voide, and darkenesse was vpon the deepe, and the Spirit of God moued vpon ye waters.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 4:23 : 23 I haue looked vpon the earth, and loe, it was without forme and voide: and to the heauens, and they had no light.
  • Ps 104:30 : 30 Againe if thou send forth thy spirit, they are created, and thou renuest the face of the earth.
  • Isa 45:18 : 18 For thus saith the Lorde (that created heauen, God himselfe, that formed the earth, & made it: he that prepared it, he created it not in vaine: he formed it to be inhabited) I am the Lord, and there is none other.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 1:1
    90%

    1In the beginning God created the heauen and the earth.

  • Gen 1:3-10
    8 verses
    85%

    3Then God saide, Let there be light: And there was light.

    4And God sawe the light that it was good, and God separated the light from the darkenes.

    5And God called the light, Day, and the darkenes, he called Night. So the euening and the morning were the first day.

    6Againe God saide, Let there be a firmament in the middes of the waters: and let it separate the waters from the waters.

    7Then God made the firmament, and separated the waters, which were vnder the firmament, from the waters which were aboue the firmament; it was so.

    8And God called the firmament Heauen. So the Euening and the morning were the seconde day.

    9God saide againe, Let the waters vnder the heauen be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appeare; it was so.

    10And God called the dry land, Earth, and he called the gathering together of the waters, Seas: and God sawe that it was good.

  • Jer 4:23-24
    2 verses
    83%

    23I haue looked vpon the earth, and loe, it was without forme and voide: and to the heauens, and they had no light.

    24I behelde the mountaines: and loe, they trembled and all the hilles shooke.

  • John 1:1-5
    5 verses
    77%

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

    2This same was in the beginning with God.

    3All things were made by it, and without it was made nothing that was made.

    4In it was life, and that life was the light of men.

    5And that light shineth in the darkenesse, and the darkenesse comprehended it not.

  • Gen 1:13-24
    12 verses
    76%

    13So the euening and the morning were the third day.

    14And God said, Let there be lightes in the firmament of the heauen, to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signes, and for seasons, and for dayes and yeeres.

    15And let them be for lightes in the firmament of the heauen to giue light vpon the earth; it was so.

    16God then made two great lightes: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesse light to rule the night: he made also the starres.

    17And God set them in the firmament of the heauen, to shine vpon the earth,

    18And to rule in the day, and in the night, and to separate the light from the darkenes: and God sawe that it was good.

    19So the euening and the morning were the fourth day.

    20Afterward God said, Let the waters bring foorth in abundance euery creeping thing that hath life: and let the foule flie vpon the earth in the open firmament of the heauen.

    21Then God created the great whales, and euery thing liuing and mouing, which the waters brought foorth in abundance according to their kinde, and euery fethered foule according to his kinde: and God sawe that it was good.

    22Then God blessed them, saying, Bring foorth fruite and multiplie, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the foule multiplie in the earth.

    23So the euening and the morning were the fift day.

    24Moreouer God said, Let the earth bring foorth the liuing thing according to his kinde, cattell, and that which creepeth, and the beast of the earth, according to his kinde; it was so.

  • Gen 2:4-7
    4 verses
    75%

    4These are the generations of the heauens and of the earth, when they were created, in the day that the Lorde God made the earth and the heauens,

    5And euery plant of the fielde, before it was in the earth, and euery herbe of the field, before it grewe: for the Lorde God had not caused it to raine vpon the earth, neither was there a man to till the ground,

    6But a myst went vp from the earth, and watered all the earth.

    7The Lord God also made the man of the dust of the grounde, and breathed in his face breath of life, and the man was a liuing soule.

  • 2 Pet 3:5-6
    2 verses
    73%

    5For this they willingly know not, that the heauens were of olde, and the earth that was of the water and by the water, by the word of God.

    6Wherefore the worlde that then was, perished, ouerflowed with the water.

  • Gen 2:1
    73%

    1Thus the heauens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

  • Gen 1:26-28
    3 verses
    71%

    26Furthermore God said, Let vs make man in our image according to our likenes, and let them rule ouer the fish of the sea, and ouer the foule of the heauen, and ouer the beastes, and ouer all the earth, and ouer euery thing that creepeth and moueth on the earth.

    27Thus God created the man in his image: in the image of God created he him: he created them male and female.

    28And God blessed them, and God said to them, Bring forth fruite and multiplie, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule ouer the fish of the sea, and ouer the foule of the heauen, & ouer euery beast that moueth vpon the earth.

  • Prov 8:26
    70%

    26He had not yet made the earth, nor the open places, nor the height of the dust in the worlde.

  • Heb 1:10
    70%

    10And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast established the earth, and the heauens are the workes of thine handes.

  • Gen 6:11
    69%

    11The earth also was corrupt before God: for the earth was filled with crueltie.

  • Gen 11:1
    69%

    1Then the whole earth was of one language and one speache.

  • Job 10:22
    69%

    22Into a land, I say, darke as darknes it selfe, and into the shadow of death, where is none order, but the light is there as darkenesse.

  • John 1:10
    69%

    10He was in the world, and the worlde was made by him: and the worlde knewe him not.

  • Gen 7:18
    68%

    18The waters also waxed strong, and were increased exceedingly vpon the earth, and the Arke went vpon the waters.

  • Gen 2:19
    68%

    19So the Lorde God formed of the earth euery beast of the fielde, and euery foule of the heauen, and brought them vnto the man to see howe he would call them: for howsoeuer the man named the liuing creature, so was the name thereof.

  • Heb 1:1
    68%

    1At sundry times and in diuers maners God spake in the olde time to our fathers by the Prophetes: in these last dayes hee hath spoken vnto vs by his Sonne,

  • 2 Sam 22:12
    68%

    12And hee made darkenesse a Tabernacle round about him, euen the gatherings of waters, and the cloudes of the ayre.

  • Ezek 1:20
    68%

    20Whither the spirit led them, they went, & thither did the spirite of the wheeles leade them, and the wheeles were lifted vp besides them: for the spirit of the beastes was in the wheeles.

  • Gen 7:10
    68%

    10And so after seuen dayes the waters of the flood were vpon the earth.