Genesis 1:2

A Conservative Version

And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

Cross References

Jeremiah 4:23

I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was waste and void, and the heavens, and they had no light.

Psalm 104:30

Thou send forth thy Spirit, they are created, and thou renew the face of the ground.

Isaiah 45:18

For thus says LORD who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and did not create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited: I am LORD, and there is none else.

Psalm 33:6

By the word of LORD were the heavens made, and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

Job 26:7

He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth upon nothing.

Job 26:14

Lo, these are but the periphery of his ways. And how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?

Nahum 2:10

She is empty, and void, and waste. And the heart melts, and the knees smite together, and anguish is in all loins, and the faces of them all have grown pale.

2 Corinthians 4:6

Because it is God who said, Out of darkness light is to shine, who shone in our hearts for an enlightenment of the knowledge of the glory of God in the presence of Jesus Christ.

Deuteronomy 32:11

As an eagle that stirs up her nest, that flutters over her young, he spread abroad his wings. He took them. He bore them on his pinions.

Job 38:9

when I made clouds the garment of it, and thick darkness a swaddling-band for it,

Psalm 104:6

Thou covered it with the deep as with a vesture. The waters stood above the mountains.

Psalm 136:6

to him who spread forth the earth above the waters, for his loving kindness [is] forever,

Psalm 148:7

Praise LORD from the earth, ye sea-monsters, and all deeps,

Proverbs 8:24

when there were no depths. I was brought forth when there were no fountains abounding with water,

Isaiah 31:5

As birds hovering, so LORD of hosts will protect Jerusalem. He will protect and deliver. He will pass over and preserve.

Job 41:32

He makes a path to shine after him. [A man] would think the deep to be hoary.