Genesis 1:26

World English Bible (2000)

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 sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."

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  • Col 3:10 : 10 and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,
  • Eph 4:24 : 24 and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.
  • Jas 3:9 : 9 With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in the image of God.
  • Gen 3:22 : 22 Yahweh God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he put forth his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever..."
  • 2 Cor 3:18 : 18 But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.
  • Isa 64:8 : 8 But now, Yahweh, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.
  • Gen 5:1 : 1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God's likeness.
  • Gen 9:6 : 6 Whoever sheds man's blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.
  • Ps 100:3 : 3 Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
  • Gen 9:2-4 : 2 The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that the ground teems with, and all the fish of the sea are delivered into your hand. 3 Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As the green herb, I have given everything to you. 4 But flesh with its life, its blood, you shall not eat.
  • 2 Cor 4:4 : 4 in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.
  • Col 1:15 : 15 who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
  • Heb 2:6-9 : 6 But one has somewhere testified, saying, "What is man, that you think of him? Or the son of man, that you care for him? 7 You made him a little lower than the angels. You crowned him with glory and honor. 8 You have put all things in subjection under his feet." For in that he subjected all things to him, he left nothing that is not subject to him. But now we don't see all things subjected to him, yet. 9 But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone.
  • 1 John 5:7 : 7 For there are three who testify:
  • 1 Cor 11:7 : 7 For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because 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, creeping thing, and thing in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind.
  • Ps 8:4-8 : 4 what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him? 5 For you have made him a little lower than God, and crowned him with glory and honor. 6 You make him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet: 7 All sheep and cattle, yes, and the animals of the field, 8 The birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and whatever passes through the paths of the seas.
  • Acts 17:28-29 : 28 'For in him we live, and move, and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'For we are also his offspring.' 29 Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of man.
  • Ps 149:2 : 2 Let Israel rejoice in him who made them. Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.
  • Eccl 7:29 : 29 Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes."
  • Isa 6:8 : 8 I heard the Lord's voice, saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?" Then I said, "Here I am. Send me!"
  • Jer 27:6 : 6 Now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the animals of the field also have I given him to serve him.
  • John 14:23 : 23 Jesus answered him, "If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.
  • Acts 17:26 : 26 He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,
  • John 5:17 : 17 But Jesus answered them, "My Father is still working, so I am working, too."
  • Gen 11:7 : 7 Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."

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