Genesis 1:2

King James Version 1611 (Original)

And the earth was without form, 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 without form, 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 earth.
  • Isa 45:18 : 18 For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 1:1
    90%

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

  • Gen 1:3-10
    8 verses
    85%

    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 the evening and the morning were the first 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 the evening and the morning were the second day.

    9And God said, Let the waters under the heaven 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 4:23-24
    2 verses
    83%

    23I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.

    24I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.

  • John 1:1-5
    5 verses
    77%

    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 by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

    4In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

    5And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

  • Gen 1:13-24
    12 verses
    76%

    13And the evening and the morning were the third day.

    14And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the 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 the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

    16And God made 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 the 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 the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

    20And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

    21And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his 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 fowl multiply in the earth.

    23And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

    24And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.

  • Gen 2:4-7
    4 verses
    75%

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

    5And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD 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 the LORD 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 3:5-6
    2 verses
    73%

    5For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:

    6Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:

  • Gen 2:1
    73%

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

  • Gen 1:26-28
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    71%

    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 fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

    27So 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 fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

  • Prov 8:26
    70%

    26While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.

  • Heb 1:10
    70%

    10And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands:

  • Gen 6:11
    69%

    11The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

  • Gen 11:1
    69%

    1And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.

  • Job 10:22
    69%

    22A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

  • John 1:10
    69%

    10He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.

  • Gen 7:18
    68%

    18And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.

  • Gen 2:19
    68%

    19And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

  • Heb 1:1
    68%

    1God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,

  • 2 Sam 22:12
    68%

    12And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.

  • Ezek 1:20
    68%

    20Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.

  • Gen 7:10
    68%

    10And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.