Genesis 1:3

King James Version 1611 (Original)

And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

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  • 2 Cor 4:6 : 6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
  • John 1:5 : 5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
  • 1 John 1:5 : 5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
  • Ps 33:6 : 6 By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
  • Isa 45:7 : 7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
  • Isa 60:19 : 19 The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
  • Ps 148:5 : 5 Let them praise the name of the LORD: for he commanded, and they were created.
  • Ps 33:9 : 9 For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.
  • Ps 97:11 : 11 Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.
  • 1 John 2:8 : 8 Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.
  • Eph 5:14 : 14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
  • John 1:9 : 9 That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
  • John 3:19 : 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
  • Ps 104:2 : 2 Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:
  • Job 38:19 : 19 Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,
  • Job 36:30 : 30 Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.
  • Ps 118:27 : 27 God is the LORD, which hath shewed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar.
  • Eph 5:8 : 8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:

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  • Gen 1:4-28
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    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.

    11And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

    12And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

    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.

    25And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

    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.

  • Gen 1:1-2
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    1In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

    2And 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.

  • John 1:1-6
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    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.

    6There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

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

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    5This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

  • John 1:9-10
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    9That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

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

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    6For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

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    3Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

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    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,

  • Gen 1:31
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    31And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

  • 2 Pet 3:5
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    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:

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

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    13Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled.

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

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    1This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;