Genesis 1:26

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

Then God said, “Now let’s make humans who will be like us. They will rule over all the fish in the sea and the birds in the air. They will rule over all the large animals and all the little things that crawl on the earth.”

Cross References

Colossians 3:10

Now you are wearing a new life, a life that is new every day. You are growing in your understanding of the one who made you. You are becoming more and more like him.

Ephesians 4:24

Be that new person who was made to be like God, truly good and pleasing to him.

Genesis 3:22

The Lord God said, “Look, the man has become like us—he knows about good and evil. And now the man might take the fruit from the tree of life. If the man eats that fruit, he will live forever.”

Genesis 5:1

This is the history of Adam’s family. When God created people, he made them like himself.

Psalm 100:3

Know that the Lord is God. He made us, and we belong to him. We are his people, the sheep he takes care of.

2 Corinthians 3:18

And our faces are not covered. We all show the Lord’s glory, and we are being changed to be like him. This change in us brings more and more glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

Isaiah 64:8

But, Lord, you are our father. We are like clay, and you are the potter. Your hands made us all.

Colossians 1:15

No one can see God, but the Son is exactly like God. He rules over everything that has been made.

James 3:9

We use our tongues to praise our Lord and Father, but then we curse people who were created in God’s likeness.

2 Corinthians 4:4

The ruler of this world has blinded the minds of those who don’t believe. They cannot see the light of the Good News—the message about the divine greatness of Christ. Christ is the one who is exactly like God.

1 Corinthians 11:7

But a man should not cover his head, because he is made like God and is God’s glory. But woman is man’s glory.

Genesis 9:6

“God made humans to be like himself. So whoever kills a person must be killed by another person.

Ecclesiastes 7:29

“There is one other thing I have learned. God made people good, but they have found many ways to be bad.”

Acts 17:26

God began by making one man, and from him he made all the different people who live everywhere in the world. He decided exactly when and where they would live.

John 14:23

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

1 John 5:7

So there are three witnesses that tell us about Jesus:

James 3:7

Humans have control over every kind of wild animal, bird, reptile, and fish, and they have controlled all these things.

Isaiah 6:8

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

Psalm 149:2

Let Israel be happy with their Maker. Let the people of Zion rejoice with their King.

Genesis 11:7

Let’s go down and confuse their language. Then they will not understand each other.”

Jeremiah 27:6

Now I have given all your countries to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. He is my servant. I will make even the wild animals obey him.

Job 35:10

But they forget to say, ‘Where is God, the one who made me? He is the one who gives us songs to sing in the night.

John 5:17

But he said to them, “My Father never stops working, and so I work too.”

Acts 17:20

The things you are saying are new to us. We have never heard this teaching before, and we want to know what it means.”

Job 5:23

It is as if you have a peace treaty with the wild animals and the rocks in the field.

Genesis 2:19

The Lord God used dust from the ground and made every animal in the fields and every bird in the air. He brought all these animals to the man, and the man gave them all a name.

Isaiah 45:18

The Lord is God. He made the skies and the earth. He put the earth in its place. He did not want the earth to be empty when he made it. He created it to be lived on. “I am the Lord. There is no other God.

Job 39:11

A wild bull is very strong, but can you trust him to do your work?

Song of Solomon 1:11

Let’s make you some more gold jewelry and decorate it with silver.