Genesis 1:16

A Conservative Version

And God made the two great lights, the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night, also the stars.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:19

And lest thou lift up thine eyes to heaven, and when thou see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the host of heaven, thou be drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which LORD thy God has allotted to all the peoples

Psalm 8:3

When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou have ordained,

Isaiah 40:26

Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their host by number. He calls them all by name, by the greatness of his might. And because he is strong in power, not one is lacking.

Psalm 148:5

Let them praise the name of LORD. For he commanded, and they were created.

Psalm 74:16

The day is thine; the night is also thine. Thou have prepared the light and the sun.

Psalm 148:3

Praise ye him, sun and moon. Praise him, all ye stars of light.

Job 38:7

when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

1 Corinthians 15:41

another glory is of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars, for star differs from star in glory.

Matthew 27:45

Now from the sixth hour darkness developed over all the land until the ninth hour.

Habakkuk 3:11

The sun and moon stood still in their habitation, at the light of thine arrows as they went, at the shining of thy glittering spear.

Isaiah 45:7

I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create evil. I am LORD who does all these things.

Isaiah 13:10

For the stars of heaven and the constellations of it shall not give their light. The sun shall be darkened in its going forth, and the moon shall not cause its light to shine.

Psalm 19:6

His going forth is from the end of the heavens, and his circuit to the ends of it, and there is nothing hid from the heat of it.

Revelation 21:23

And the city has no need of the sun, nor of the moon, so that they might shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it, and the light of it is the Lamb.

Isaiah 24:23

Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, for LORD of hosts will reign in mount Zion and in Jerusalem. And glory shall be before his elders.

Job 31:26

if I have beheld the sun when it shone, or the moon walking in brightness,

Matthew 24:29

But straightaway after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light. And the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

Genesis 1:15

And let them be for lights in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth. And it was so.

Jeremiah 31:35

Thus says LORD, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that the waves thereof roar. LORD of hosts is his name.