Genesis 1:26 - English Standard Version 2016

²⁶ Then 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 heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ And 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ God said, Let Us [Father, Son, and Holy Spirit] make mankind in Our image, after Our likeness, and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the [tame] beasts, and over all of the earth, and over everything that creeps upon the earth. [Ps. 104:30; Heb. 1:2; 11:3.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ And 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 heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Common English Bible

²⁶ Then God said, “Let us make humanity in our image to resemble us so that they may take charge of the fish of the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the earth, and all the crawling things on earth.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ And he said: "Let us make Man to our image and likeness. And let him rule over the fish of the sea, and the flying creatures of the air, and the wild beasts, and the entire earth, and every animal that moves on the earth."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁶ And he said: Let us make man to our image and likeness; and let him have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that moveth upon the earth.

Genesis 1:26 Cross References

Genesis 11:7

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

Genesis 2:19

Now out of the ground the Lord God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.

Genesis 3:22

Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—”

Genesis 5:1

This is the book of the generations of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God.

Genesis 9:6

“Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.

Job 35:10

But none says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,

Job 39:11

Will you depend on him because his strength is great, and will you leave to him your labor?

Job 5:23

For you shall be in league with the stones of the field, and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you.

Psalm 100:3

Know that the Lord, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

Psalm 149:2

Let Israel be glad in his Maker; let the children of Zion rejoice in their King!

Ecclesiastes 7:29

See, this alone I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes.

Song of Solomon 1:11

We will make for you ornaments of gold, studded with silver.

Isaiah 45:18

For thus says the Lord, who created the heavens (he is God!), who formed the earth and made it (he established it; he did not create it empty, he formed it to be inhabited!): “I am the Lord, and there is no other.

Isaiah 6:8

And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here I am! Send me.”

Isaiah 64:8

But now, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.

Jeremiah 27:6

Now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, my servant, and I have given him also the beasts of the field to serve him.

John 14:23

Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

John 5:17

But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.”

Acts 17:20

For you bring some strange things to our ears. We wish to know therefore what these things mean.”

Acts 17:26

And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,

1 Corinthians 11:7

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

2 Corinthians 3:18

And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.

2 Corinthians 4:4

In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing 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 after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.

Colossians 1:15

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

Colossians 3:10

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

James 3:7

For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind,

James 3:9

With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God.

1 John 5:7

For there are three that testify: