Genesis 1:26

God's Word

Then God said, “Let us make humans in our image, in our likeness. Let them rule the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the domestic animals all over the earth, and all the animals that crawl on the earth.”

Cross References

Genesis 11:7

Let us go down there and mix up their language so that they won’t understand each other.”

Genesis 2:19

The Lord God had formed all the wild animals and all the birds out of the ground. Then he brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called each creature became its name.

Genesis 3:22

Then the Lord God said, “The man has become like one of us, since he knows good and evil. He must not reach out and take the fruit from the tree of life and eat. Then he would live forever.”

Genesis 5:1

This is the written account of Adam and his descendants. When God created humans, he made them in the likeness of God.

Genesis 9:6

Whoever sheds human blood, by humans his blood will be shed, because in the image of God, God made humans.

Job 35:10

But no one asks, ‘Where is God, my Creator, who inspires songs in the night,

Job 39:11

Can you trust it just because it’s so strong or leave your labor to it?

Job 5:23

“You will have a binding agreement with the stones in the field, and wild animals will be at peace with you.

Psalm 100:3

Realize that the Lord alone is God. He made us, and we are his. We are his people and the sheep in his care.

Psalm 149:2

Let Israel find joy in their creator. Let the people of Zion rejoice over their king.

Ecclesiastes 7:29

I have found only this: God made people decent, but they looked for many ways ⌞to avoid being decent⌟.”

Song of Solomon 1:11

We will make gold ornaments with silver beads for you.

Isaiah 45:18

The Lord created the heavens. God formed the earth and made it. He set it up. He did not create it to be empty but formed it to be inhabited. This is what the Lord says: I am the Lord, and there is no other.

Isaiah 6:8

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

Isaiah 64:8

But now, Lord, you are our Father. We are the clay, and you are our potter. We are the work of your hands.

Jeremiah 27:6

Now I have handed all these countries over to my servant King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. I have even made wild animals serve him.

John 14:23

Jesus answered him, “Those who love me will do what I say. My Father will love them, and we will go to them and make our home with them.

John 5:17

Jesus replied to them, “My Father is working right now, and so am I.”

Acts 17:20

Some of the things you say sound strange to us. So we would like to know what they mean.”

Acts 17:26

From one man he has made every nation of humanity to live all over the earth. He has given them the seasons of the year and the boundaries within which to live.

1 Corinthians 11:7

A man should not cover his head. He is God’s image and glory. The woman, however, is man’s glory.

2 Corinthians 3:18

As all of us reflect the Lord’s glory with faces that are not covered with veils, we are being changed into his image with ever-increasing glory. This comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

2 Corinthians 4:4

The god of this world has blinded the minds of those who don’t believe. As a result, they don’t see the light of the Good News about Christ’s glory. It is Christ who is God’s image.

Ephesians 4:24

You were also taught to become a new person created to be like God, with a life that truly has God’s approval and is holy.

Colossians 1:15

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

Colossians 3:10

and you’ve become a new person. This new person is continually renewed in knowledge to be like its Creator.

James 3:7

People have tamed all kinds of animals, birds, reptiles, and sea creatures.

James 3:9

With our tongues we praise our Lord and Father. Yet, with the same tongues we curse people, who were created in God’s likeness.

1 John 5:7

There are three witnesses: