Genesis 1:26

Good News Translation

Then God said, “And now we will make human beings; they will be like us and resemble us. They will have power over the fish, the birds, and all animals, domestic and wild, large and small.”

Cross References

Genesis 11:7

Let us go down and mix up their language so that they will not understand each other.”

Genesis 2:19

So he took some soil from the ground and formed all the animals and all the birds. Then he brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and that is how they all got their names.

Genesis 3:22

Then the Lord God said, “Now these human beings have become like one of us and have knowledge of what is good and what is bad. They must not be allowed to take fruit from the tree that gives life, eat it, and live forever.”

Genesis 5:1

This is the list of the descendants of Adam. (When God created human beings, he made them like himself.

Genesis 9:6

Human beings were made like God, so whoever murders one of them will be killed by someone else.

Job 35:10

But they don't turn to God, their Creator, who gives them hope in their darkest hours.

Job 39:11

Can you rely on his great strength and expect him to do your heavy work?

Job 5:23

The fields you plow will be free of rocks; wild animals will never attack you.

Psalm 100:3

Acknowledge that the Lord is God. He made us, and we belong to him; we are his people, we are his flock.

Psalm 149:2

Be glad, Israel, because of your Creator; rejoice, people of Zion, because of your king!

Ecclesiastes 7:29

This is all that I have learned: God made us plain and simple, but we have made ourselves very complicated.

Song of Solomon 1:11

But we will make for you a chain of gold with ornaments of silver.

Isaiah 45:18

The Lord created the heavens— he is the one who is God! He formed and made the earth— he made it firm and lasting. He did not make it a desolate waste, but a place for people to live. It is he who says, “I am the Lord, and there is no other god.

Isaiah 6:8

Then I heard the Lord say, “Whom shall I send? Who will be our messenger?” I answered, “I will go! Send me!”

Isaiah 64:8

But you are our father, Lord. We are like clay, and you are like the potter. You created us,

Jeremiah 27:6

I am the one who has placed all these nations under the power of my servant, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia, and I have made even the wild animals serve him.

John 14:23

Jesus answered him, “Those who love me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and my Father and I will come to them and live with them.

John 5:17

Jesus answered them, “My Father is always working, and I too must work.”

Acts 17:20

Some of the things we hear you say sound strange to us, and we would like to know what they mean.” (

Acts 17:26

From one human being he created all races of people and made them live throughout the whole earth. He himself fixed beforehand the exact times and the limits of the places where they would live.

1 Corinthians 11:7

A man has no need to cover his head, because he reflects the image and glory of God. But woman reflects the glory of man;

2 Corinthians 3:18

All of us, then, reflect the glory of the Lord with uncovered faces; and that same glory, coming from the Lord, who is the Spirit, transforms us into his likeness in an ever greater degree of glory.

2 Corinthians 4:4

They do not believe, because their minds have been kept in the dark by the evil god of this world. He keeps them from seeing the light shining on them, the light that comes from the Good News about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God.

Ephesians 4:24

and you must put on the new self, which is created in God's likeness and reveals itself in the true life that is upright and holy.

Colossians 1:15

Christ is the visible likeness of the invisible God. He is the first-born Son, superior to all created things.

Colossians 3:10

and have put on the new self. This is the new being which God, its Creator, is constantly renewing in his own image, in order to bring you to a full knowledge of himself.

James 3:7

We humans are able to tame and have tamed all other creatures—wild animals and birds, reptiles and fish.

James 3:9

We use it to give thanks to our Lord and Father and also to curse other people, who are created in the likeness of God.

1 John 5:7

There are three witnesses: