Genesis 1:16

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

And God made the two great lights, the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; he made the stars also.

Cross References

Genesis 1:15

and let them be lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light upon the earth.” And it was so.

Job 31:26

if I have looked at the sun when it shone, or the moon moving in splendor,

Job 38:7

when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Psalm 148:3

Praise him, sun and moon, praise him, all you shining stars!

Psalm 148:5

Let them praise the name of the Lord! For he commanded and they were created.

Psalm 19:6

Its rising is from the end of the heavens, and its circuit to the end of them; and there is nothing hid from its heat.

Psalm 74:16

Thine is the day, thine also the night; thou hast established the luminaries and the sun.

Psalm 8:3

When I look at thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast established;

Isaiah 13:10

For the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not give their light; the sun will be dark at its rising and the moon will not shed its light.

Isaiah 24:23

Then the moon will be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for the Lord of hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem and before his elders he will manifest his glory.

Isaiah 40:26

Lift up your eyes on high and see: who created these? He who brings out their host by number, calling them all by name; by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power not one is missing.

Isaiah 45:7

I form light and create darkness, I make weal and create woe, I am the Lord, who do all these things.

Jeremiah 31:35

Thus says the Lord, who gives the sun for light by day and the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar— the Lord of hosts is his name:

Habakkuk 3:11

The sun and moon stood still in their habitation at the light of thine arrows as they sped, at the flash of thy glittering spear.

Matthew 24:29

“Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken;

Matthew 27:45

Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.

1 Corinthians 15:41

There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory.

Deuteronomy 4:19

And beware lest you lift up your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, you be drawn away and worship them and serve them, things which the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.

Revelation 21:23

And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine upon it, for the glory of God is its light, and its lamp is the Lamb.