Genesis 1:16

New International Version

God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:19

And when you look up to the sky and see the sun, the moon and the stars—all the heavenly array—do not be enticed into bowing down to them and worshiping things the Lord your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.

Psalm 8:3

When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,

Isaiah 40:26

Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one and calls forth each of them by name. Because of his great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.

Psalm 148:5

Let them praise the name of the Lord, for at his command they were created,

Psalm 74:16

The day is yours, and yours also the night; you established the sun and moon.

Psalm 148:3

Praise him, sun and moon; praise him, all you shining stars.

Job 38:7

while the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy?

1 Corinthians 15:41

The sun has one kind of splendor, the moon another and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor.

Matthew 27:45

From noon until three in the afternoon darkness came over all the land.

Habakkuk 3:11

Sun and moon stood still in the heavens at the glint of your flying arrows, at the lightning of your flashing spear.

Isaiah 45:7

I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster; I, the Lord, do all these things.

Isaiah 13:10

The stars of heaven and their constellations will not show their light. The rising sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light.

Psalm 19:6

It rises at one end of the heavens and makes its circuit to the other; nothing is deprived of its warmth.

Revelation 21:23

The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp.

Isaiah 24:23

The moon will be dismayed, the sun ashamed; for the Lord Almighty will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before its elders—with great glory.

Job 31:26

if I have regarded the sun in its radiance or the moon moving in splendor,

Matthew 24:29

“Immediately after the distress of those days “ ‘the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.’

Genesis 1:15

and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so.

Jeremiah 31:35

This is what the Lord says, he who appoints the sun to shine by day, who decrees the moon and stars to shine by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar— the Lord Almighty is his name: