Genesis 1:26

New Century Version

Then God said, “Let us make human beings in our image and likeness. And let them rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the tame animals, over all the earth, and over all the small crawling animals on the earth.”

Cross References

Genesis 11:7

Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not be able to understand each other.”

Genesis 2:19

From the ground God formed every wild animal and every bird in the sky, and he brought them to the man so the man could name them. Whatever the man called each living thing, that became its name.

Genesis 3:22

Then the Lord God said, “Humans have become like one of us; they know good and evil. We must keep them from eating some of the fruit from the tree of life, or they will live forever.”

Genesis 5:1

This is the family history of Adam. When God created human beings, he made them in his own likeness.

Genesis 9:6

“Whoever kills a human being will be killed by a human being, because God made humans in his own image.

Job 35:10

But no one asks, ‘Where is God, my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,

Job 39:11

Will you depend on the wild ox for its great strength and leave your heavy work for it to do?

Job 5:23

because you will have an agreement with the stones in the field, and the wild animals will be at peace with you.

Psalm 100:3

Know that the Lord is God. He made us, and we belong to him; we are his people, the sheep he tends.

Psalm 149:2

Let the Israelites be happy because of God, their Maker. Let the people of Jerusalem rejoice because of their King.

Ecclesiastes 7:29

One thing I have learned: God made people good, but they have found all kinds of ways to be bad.”

Song of Solomon 1:11

We will make for you gold earrings with silver hooks.

Isaiah 45:18

The Lord created the heavens. He is the God who formed the earth and made it. He did not want it to be empty, but he wanted life on the earth. This is what the Lord says: “I am the Lord. There is no other God.

Isaiah 6:8

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

Isaiah 64:8

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

Jeremiah 27:6

Now I have given all these lands to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, my servant. I will make even the wild animals obey him.

John 14:23

Jesus answered, “If people love me, they will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.

John 5:17

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

Acts 17:20

The things you are saying are new to us, and we want to know what this teaching means.”

Acts 17:26

God began by making one person, and from him came all the different people who live everywhere in the world. God decided exactly when and where they must live.

1 Corinthians 11:7

But a man should not cover his head, because he is the likeness and glory of God. But woman is man’s glory.

2 Corinthians 3:18

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

2 Corinthians 4:4

The devil who rules this world has blinded the minds of those who do not believe. They cannot see the light of the Good News—the Good News about the glory of Christ, who is exactly like God.

Ephesians 4:24

to become a new person. That new person is made to be like God—made to be truly good and holy.

Colossians 1:15

No one can see God, but Jesus Christ is exactly like him. He ranks higher than everything that has been made.

Colossians 3:10

You have begun to live the new life, in which you are being made new and are becoming like the One who made you. This new life brings you the true knowledge of God.

James 3:7

People can tame every kind of wild animal, bird, reptile, and fish, and they have tamed them,

James 3:9

We use our tongues to praise our Lord and Father, but then we curse people, whom God made like himself.

1 John 5:7

So there are three witnesses: