Genesis 1

Treated in 24 passages across the library.

  • 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 6
  • 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 4
  • 1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. 4
  • 1:27 And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 3
  • 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day. 2
  • 1:31 And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. 2
  • 1:2 And the earth was waste and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 1
  • 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 1
  • 1:9 And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. 1
  • 1:17 And God set them in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth, 1
  • 1:18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. 1
  • 1:19 And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day. 1
  • 1:20 And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. 1
  • 1:21 And God created the great sea-monsters, and every living creature that moveth, wherewith the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind: and God saw that it was good. 1
  • 1:28 And God blessed them: and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. 1

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  1. The Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Faith · R. A. Torrey

    The Christian Conception of God, or the God of the Bible as Distinguished from the God of Christian Science and the God of Modern Philosophy cites Gen. 1:1

    …osophy and Christian Science. This conception is found in the opening words of the Bible, Gen. 1:1: "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." Here the God of the Bible is cl…

  2. The Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Faith · R. A. Torrey

    The Christian Conception of God—The Infinite Perfection and Unity of God cites Gen. 1:1

    …irst words of that chapter read: "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth" (Gen. 1:1), a description of the origin of things that has never been matched for simplicity, subli…

  3. Our Daily Walk · Frederick Brotherton Meyer

    December cites Gen 1:1

    …cember 12 IN THE BEGINNING GOD “In the beginning God created the Heaven and the earth.”-- Gen 1:1. “In the beginning was the Word... all things were made by Him.”-- Jn 1:1, 2, 3. GENESIS …

  4. Evening by Evening · Charles H. Spurgeon

    January cites Genesis 1:4

    …manifest himself to us as he doth not unto the world. January 5 “And God saw the light.” (Genesis 1:4) This morning we noticed the goodness of the light, and the Lord's dividing it from the d…

  5. Morning by Morning · Charles H. Spurgeon

    January cites Genesis 1:4

    … “And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.” (Genesis 1:4) Light might well be good since it sprang from that fiat of goodness, “Let there be light…

  6. Evening by Evening · Charles H. Spurgeon

    July cites Genesis 1:4

    … graciously he once waited for us. July 9 “And God divided the light from the darkness.” (Genesis 1:4) A believer has two principles at work within him. In his natural estate he was subject t…

  7. Thoughts for the Quiet Hour · Dwight L. Moody

    March cites Gen. i. 4

    …arch 28 God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. Gen. i. 4. No sooner is there a good thing in the world than a division is necessary. Light and dar…

  8. Morning by Morning · Charles H. Spurgeon

    June cites Genesis 1:5

    June 1 “The evening and the morning were the first day.” (Genesis 1:5) Was it so even in the beginning? Did light and darkness divide the realm of time in the …

  9. Our Daily Walk · Frederick Brotherton Meyer

    March cites Gen 1:5

    …AMEN. March 26 THE MORNING COMETH “And the evening and the morning were the first day.”-- Gen 1:5. SIX TIMES these words are repeated, and the one lesson that rings out is that God counts…

  10. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

    The New Creation cites Gen. 1:9

    …ters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear,” (Gen. 1:9, ) the dry land spread over the face of the water, and covered it on every side. And so i…

  11. The Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Faith · R. A. Torrey

    The Personality of the Holy Spirit cites Gen. 1:26

    …w, it is not in the Old. But it is in the Old, in the very first chapter of the Bible. In Gen. 1:26 we read, "And God said, let us make man in our image, after our likeness." Here the plura…

  12. Freedom of the Will · Jonathan Edwards

    Section V. Concerning the Notion of Liberty, and of Moral Agency cites Gen. 1:26

    …d herein does very much consist that image of God wherein he made man, (which we read of, Gen. 1:26, 27, and chap. 9:6.) by which God distinguished man from the beasts, viz. in those facult…

  13. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

    The New Birth cites Gen. 1:26

    … our likeness. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him:” (Gen. 1:26, 27:) — Not barely in his natural image, a picture of his own immortality; a spiritual be…

  14. A Short and Easy Method of Prayer · Jeanne Guyon

    Prayer as Noble Action cites Gen. i. 26

    … was made” (John i. 3). God, in creating us, created us in His image, after His likeness (Gen. i. 26). He gave to us the Spirit of the Word by the breath of life (Gen. ii. 7), which He breat…

  15. The Master’s Indwelling · Andrew Murray

    The Kingdom First cites Genesis 1:26

    …nature. What was man created for? To live in the likeness of God, and as His image Ref in Genesis 1:26. Now, if we have been created in the image and likeness of God, we can find our happiness…

  16. Our Daily Walk · Frederick Brotherton Meyer

    October cites Gen 1:26

    …rs of the Divine Nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust (Gen 1:26; 2Pe1:4). PRAYER The world is dear unto Thee, O Heavenly Father; Thou didst send Thine On…

  17. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

    On Perfection cites Gen. 1:27

    …wed after the image of him that created him;” plainly referring to the words in Genesis, (Gen. 1:27) “So God created man in his own image.” Now, the moral image of God consists (as the Apos…

  18. Clothed with Strength and Dignity · Ochorus Originals

    Rooted in Christ: Your True Identity cites Genesis 1:27

    …n in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them." Genesis 1:27 (KJV) Before we can talk about what a Christian woman does, we must first understand who …

  19. The Way Into the Holiest · Frederick Brotherton Meyer

    What Is Man? cites Gen. i. 27

    … faculties which are the noblest heritage of mankind. "God created man in his own image" (Gen. i. 27). -There we have the divine likeness. Our mental and moral nature is made on the same pla…

  20. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

    The General Deliverance cites Gen. 1:28

    …, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.” (Gen. 1:28.) And so the Psalmist: “Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands: Tho…

  21. Talks to the Farmer · Charles H. Spurgeon

    The Loaded Wagon cites Genesis 1:31

    …ll its flowers. Before sin entered, the Creator said of the new earth, "It is very good" (Genesis 1:31), but when sin entered, it grieved God at his very heart that he had made humans. Nothing…

  22. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

    God’s Approbation of His Works cites Gen. 1:31

    …n of His Works “And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.” Gen. 1:31. 1. When God created the heavens and the earth, and all that is therein, at the conclusio…

  23. The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit · R. A. Torrey

    The Work of the Holy Spirit in the Material Universe cites Genesis 1:1-3

    …ion of this world to be the home of man, Father, Word, and Holy Spirit are all mentioned (Genesis 1:1-3). It is evident from a comparison of these passages that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit…

  24. Our Daily Walk · Frederick Brotherton Meyer

    July cites Gen 1:17-21

    …ther”--not only with the brother of human flesh--but with our great Brother in the Glory (Gen 1:17-21; Heb 2:11). Then comet Offer thyself, as thy gift; He will accept thee, and thy gifts. PR…