Genesis 1:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

And the earth was formless and empty, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved over the surface of the waters.

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  • Jer 4:23 : 23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was formless and empty; and the heavens, and they had no light.
  • Ps 104:30 : 30 You send forth Your Spirit, they are created: and You renew the face of the earth.
  • Isa 45:18 : 18 For thus says the LORD who created the heavens; God Himself who formed the earth and made it; He has established it, He did not create it in vain, He formed it to be inhabited: 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%

    3And God said, Let there be light; and there was light.

    4And God saw the light, that it was good; and God separated 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 sky in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.

    7And God made the sky and separated the waters which were under the sky from the waters which were above the sky; and it was so.

    8And God called the sky Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

    9And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together in one place, and let the dry land appear; and it was so.

    10And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathered waters He called Seas; and God saw that it was good.

  • Jer 4:23-24
    2 verses
    83%

    23I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was formless and empty; 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 through him, and without him nothing was made that was made.

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

    5And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

  • 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 sky of the heavens to separate 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 sky of the heavens 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 sky of the heavens to give light upon the earth,

    18And to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate 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 has life, and birds that may fly above the earth in the open sky of heaven.

    21And God created great sea creatures, and every living creature that moves, which the waters brought forth abundantly, according to their kind, and every winged bird after its 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 birds multiply on the earth.

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

    24And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after its kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth after their kind; and it was so.

  • Gen 2:4-7
    4 verses
    75%

    4These are the generations of the heavens and 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 no man to till the ground.

    6But a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.

    7And the LORD God formed man from 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 existed of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:

    6By which the world that then existed, being overflowed with water, perished:

  • Gen 2:1
    73%

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

  • Gen 1:26-28
    3 verses
    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 birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.

    27So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

    28And God blessed them, and God said to them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves 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, You, Lord, in the beginning have laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the work of Your 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 had one language and one speech.

  • Job 10:22
    69%

    22A land of darkness, like 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 through him, and the world did not know him.

  • Gen 7:18
    68%

    18And the waters prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark moved on the surface of the waters.

  • Gen 2:19
    68%

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

  • Heb 1:1
    68%

    1God, who at various times and in different manners spoke in times past to the fathers by the prophets,

  • 2 Sam 22:12
    68%

    12And he made darkness canopies around him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.

  • Ezek 1:20
    68%

    20Wherever the spirit was to go, they went, there was their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up beside them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.

  • Gen 7:10
    68%

    10And it occurred after seven days that the floodwaters were upon the earth.