Genesis 1:26

God resolves to make humanity in his image to rule over creation. People uniquely bear God's likeness and represent his rule on earth.

Cross-references · 30

• Col 3:10and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,
• Eph 4:24and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.
• Ps 8:4–8what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him?
• Gen 3:22Yahweh God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever...”
• Gen 5:1This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God’s likeness.
• Ps 100:3Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
• 2 Cor 3:18But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.
• Gen 9:2–4The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that moves along the ground, and all the fish of the sea, are delivered into your hand.
• Isa 64:8But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay, and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.
• Col 1:15who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
• Heb 2:6–9But one has somewhere testified, saying, “What is man, that you think of him? Or the son of man, that you care for him?
• Jas 3:9With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in the image of God.
• 2 Cor 4:4in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.
• 1 Cor 11:7For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man.
• Acts 17:28–29‘For in him we live, and move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’
• Gen 9:6Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.
• Eccl 7:29Behold, I have only found this: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes.”
• Acts 17:26He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,
• John 14:23Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.
• 1 Jn 5:7For there are three who testify:
• Isa 6:8I heard the Lord’s voice, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here I am. Send me!”
• Ps 149:2Let Israel rejoice in him who made them. Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.
• Ps 104:20–24You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals of the forest prowl.
• Jas 3:7For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and sea creature, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind;
• Gen 11:7Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
• Jer 27:6Now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and I have also given the animals of the field to him to serve him.
• John 5:17But Jesus answered them, “My Father is still working, so I am working, too.”
• Job 35:10But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,
• Job 5:23For you shall be allied with the stones of the field. The animals of the field shall be at peace with you.
• Acts 17:20For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean.”

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