Genesis 1:26

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Genesis 1:24–28 · Berean Standard Bible

24 And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, land crawlers, and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so.

25 God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that crawls upon the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”

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

28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.”

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Genesis 3:22

Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil. And now, lest he reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever...”

Genesis 11:7

Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”

Job 35:10

But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,

Psalms 100:3

Know that the LORD is God. It is He who made us, and we are His; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.

Psalms 149:2

Let Israel rejoice in their Maker; let the children of Zion rejoice in their King.

Isaiah 64:8

But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.

John 5:17

But Jesus answered them, “To this very day My Father is at His work, and I too am working.”

John 14:23

Jesus replied, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.

1 John 5:7

For there are three that testify:

Genesis 5:1

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in His own likeness.

Genesis 9:6

Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.

Ecclesiastes 7:29

Only this have I found: I have discovered that God made men upright, but they have sought out many schemes.”

Acts 17:26

From one man He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their lands.

Acts 17:28

‘For in Him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are His offspring.’

Acts 17:29

Therefore, being offspring of God, we should not think that the Divine Being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by man’s skill and imagination.

1 Corinthians 11:7

A man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man.

2 Corinthians 3:18

And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into His image with intensifying glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

2 Corinthians 4:4

The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

Ephesians 4:24

and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

Colossians 1:15

The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.

Colossians 3:10

and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.

James 3:9

With the tongue we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God’s likeness.

Genesis 9:2

The fear and dread of you will fall on every living creature on the earth, every bird of the air, every creature that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the sea. They are delivered into your hand.

Genesis 9:3

Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things.

Genesis 9:4

But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it.

Job 5:23

For you will have a covenant with the stones of the field, and the wild animals will be at peace with you.

Psalms 8:4

what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?

Psalms 8:5

You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor.

Psalms 8:6

You made him ruler of the works of Your hands; You have placed everything under his feet:

Psalms 8:7

all sheep and oxen, and even the beasts of the field,

Psalms 8:8

the birds of the air and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.

Psalms 104:20

You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the beasts of the forest prowl.

Psalms 104:21

The young lions roar for their prey and seek their food from God.

Psalms 104:22

The sun rises, and they withdraw; they lie down in their dens.

Psalms 104:23

Man goes forth to his work and to his labor until evening.

Psalms 104:24

How many are Your works, O LORD! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your creatures.

Jeremiah 27:6

So now I have placed all these lands under the authority of My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. I have even made the beasts of the field subject to him.

Acts 17:20

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Hebrews 2:6

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Hebrews 2:7

You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor

Hebrews 2:8

and placed everything under his feet.” When God subjected all things to him, He left nothing outside of his control. Yet at present we do not see everything subject to him.

Hebrews 2:9

But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because He suffered death, so that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone.

James 3:7

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