Genesis 1:26

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Then God said,“Let us make humankind in our image, after our likeness, so they may rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move on the earth.”

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  • Col 3:10 : 10 and have been clothed with the new man that is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of the one who created it.
  • Eph 4:24 : 24 and to put on the new man who has been created in God’s image– in righteousness and holiness that comes from truth.
  • Jas 3:9 : 9 With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse people made in God’s image.
  • Gen 3:22 : 22 And the LORD God said,“Now that the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, he must not be allowed to stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”
  • 2 Cor 3:18 : 18 And we all, with unveiled faces reflecting the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another, which is from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
  • Isa 64:8 : 8 Yet, LORD, you are our father. We are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the product of your labor.
  • Gen 5:1 : 1 From Adam to Noah This is the record of the family line of Adam.When God created humankind, he made them in the likeness of God.
  • Gen 9:6 : 6 “Whoever sheds human blood, by other humans must his blood be shed; for in God’s image God has made humankind.”
  • Ps 100:3 : 3 Acknowledge that the LORD is God! He made us and we belong to him; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.
  • Gen 9:2-4 : 2 Every living creature of the earth and every bird of the sky will be terrified of you. Everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea are under your authority. 3 You may eat any moving thing that lives. As I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything. 4 But you must not eat meat with its life(that is, its blood) in it.
  • 2 Cor 4:4 : 4 among whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of those who do not believe so they would not see the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God.
  • Col 1:15 : 15 The Supremacy of Christ He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation,
  • Heb 2:6-9 : 6 Instead someone testified somewhere:“What is man that you think of him or the son of man that you care for him? 7 You made him lower than the angels for a little while. You crowned him with glory and honor. 8 You put all things under his control.” For when he put all things under his control, he left nothing outside of his control. At present we do not yet see all things under his control, 9 but we see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by God’s grace he would experience death on behalf of everyone.
  • 1 John 5:7 : 7 For there are three that testify,
  • 1 Cor 11:7 : 7 For a man should not have his head covered, since he is the image and glory of God. But the woman is the glory of the man.
  • Jas 3:7 : 7 For every kind of animal, bird, reptile, and sea creature is subdued and has been subdued by humankind.
  • Ps 8:4-8 : 4 Of what importance is the human race, that you should notice them? Of what importance is mankind, that you should pay attention to them? 5 You made them a little less than the heavenly beings. You crowned mankind with honor and majesty. 6 you appoint them to rule over your creation; you have placed everything under their authority, 7 including all the sheep and cattle, as well as the wild animals, 8 the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea and everything that moves through the currents of the seas.
  • Acts 17:28-29 : 28 For in him we live and move about and exist, as even some of your own poets have said,‘For we too are his offspring.’ 29 So since we are God’s offspring, we should not think the deity is like gold or silver or stone, an image made by human skill and imagination.
  • Ps 149:2 : 2 Let Israel rejoice in their Creator! Let the people of Zion delight in their King!
  • Eccl 7:29 : 29 This alone have I discovered: God made humankind upright, but they have sought many evil schemes.
  • Isa 6:8 : 8 I heard the voice of the Lord say,“Whom will I send? Who will go on our behalf?” I answered,“Here I am, send me!”
  • Jer 27:6 : 6 I have at this time placed all these nations of yours under the power of my servant, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. I have even made all the wild animals subject to him.
  • John 14:23 : 23 Jesus replied,“If anyone loves me, he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up residence with him.
  • Acts 17:26 : 26 From one man he made every nation of the human race to inhabit the entire earth, determining their set times and the fixed limits of the places where they would live,
  • John 5:17 : 17 So he told them,“My Father is working until now, and I too am working.”
  • Gen 11:7 : 7 Come, let’s go down and confuse their language so they won’t be able to understand each other.”

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    27God created humankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them, male and female he created them.

    28God blessed them and said to them,“Be fruitful and multiply! Fill the earth and subdue it! Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the ground.”

    29Then God said,“I now give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the entire earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.

    30And to all the animals of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to all the creatures that move on the ground– everything that has the breath of life in it– I give every green plant for food.” It was so.

    31God saw all that he had made– and it was very good! There was evening, and there was morning, the sixth day.

  • Gen 1:20-25
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    20God said,“Let the water swarm with swarms of living creatures and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.”

    21God created the great sea creatures and every living and moving thing with which the water swarmed, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. God saw that it was good.

    22God blessed them and said,“Be fruitful and multiply and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.”

    23There was evening, and there was morning, a fifth day.

    24God said,“Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: cattle, creeping things, and wild animals, each according to its kind.” It was so.

    25God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the cattle according to their kinds, and all the creatures that creep along the ground according to their kinds. God saw that it was good.

  • Gen 2:18-19
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    18The LORD God said,“It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a companion for him who corresponds to him.”

    19The LORD God formed out of the ground every living animal of the field and every bird of the air. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them, and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.

  • Gen 5:1-2
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    1From Adam to Noah This is the record of the family line of Adam.When God created humankind, he made them in the likeness of God.

    2He created them male and female; when they were created, he blessed them and named them“humankind.”

  • Gen 1:14-18
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    14God said,“Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them be signs to indicate seasons and days and years,

    15and let them serve as lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth.” It was so.

    16God made two great lights– the greater light to rule over the day and the lesser light to rule over the night. He made the stars also.

    17God placed the lights in the expanse of the sky to shine on the earth,

    18to preside over the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.

  • Deut 4:17-18
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    17any kind of land animal, any bird that flies in the sky,

    18anything that crawls on the ground, or any fish in the deep waters of the earth.

  • Gen 1:9-12
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    9God said,“Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place and let dry ground appear.” It was so.

    10God called the dry ground“land” and the gathered waters he called“seas.” God saw that it was good.

    11God said,“Let the land produce vegetation: plants yielding seeds and trees on the land bearing fruit with seed in it, according to their kinds.” It was so.

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

  • Gen 9:1-2
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    1God’s Covenant with Humankind through Noah Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them,“Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

    2Every living creature of the earth and every bird of the sky will be terrified of you. Everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea are under your authority.

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    6God said,“Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters and let it separate water from water.”

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    6you appoint them to rule over your creation; you have placed everything under their authority,

    7including all the sheep and cattle, as well as the wild animals,

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    14You made people like fish in the sea, like animals in the sea that have no ruler.

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    7The LORD God formed the man from the soil of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

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    1¶ The Creation of the World In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

    2Now the earth was without shape and empty, and darkness was over the surface of the watery deep, but the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the water.

    3God said,“Let there be light.” And there was light!

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    15The LORD God took the man and placed him in the orchard in Eden to care for it and to maintain it.

  • Gen 3:22
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    22And the LORD God said,“Now that the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, he must not be allowed to stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”

  • Gen 2:4
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    4The Creation of Man and Woman This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created– when the LORD God made the earth and heavens.

  • Gen 8:17
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    17Bring out with you all the living creatures that are with you. Bring out every living thing, including the birds, animals, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. Let them increase and be fruitful and multiply on the earth!”

  • Ps 148:10
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    10you animals and all you cattle, you creeping things and birds,

  • Rom 1:23
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    23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for an image resembling mortal human beings or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles.

  • Gen 6:7
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    7So the LORD said,“I will wipe humankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth– everything from humankind to animals, including creatures that move on the ground and birds of the air, for I regret that I have made them.”

  • Mark 10:6
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    6But from the beginning of creation he made them male and female.

  • Gen 9:6-7
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    6“Whoever sheds human blood, by other humans must his blood be shed; for in God’s image God has made humankind.”

    7But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; increase abundantly on the earth and multiply on it.”