Genesis 1:26
Then God said, "Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us. Let them rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the earth, and over every creature that moves along the ground."
Treated in 19 passages across the library.
Where it is preached
- The Key Teachings of Watchman Nee ·
The Latent Power of the Soul cites GENESIS 1:26
…of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth. GENESIS 1:26 Adam, he reasoned, possessed capacities far beyond anything we now know — faculties of…
- The Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Faith ·
The Personality of the Holy Spirit cites Gen. 1:26
…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…
- A Short and Easy Method of Prayer ·
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…
- The Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Faith ·
The Christian Conception of God—The Infinite Perfection and Unity of God cites Gen. 1:26
…plural pronouns in speaking of Himself. For example, in the first chapter of the Bible, Gen. 1:26, we read that God said: "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness." And in Gen.…
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Book 1, Chapter 13 — The Unity of the Divine Essence in Three Persons Taught, in Scripture, from the Foundation of the World cites Gen. 1:26
…the words of Moses when he introduces God as saying, “Let us make man in our own image,” (Gen. 1:26). Pious readers, however, see how frigidly and absurdly the colloquy were introduced by…
- The Key Teachings of G. K. Chesterton ·
The Man in the Cave cites Genesis 1:26–31
…create, laugh, grieve, ask questions. Thank God for His image in you. 2. Read Psalm 8 and Genesis 1:26–31 slowly, and consider what it means to be made in God’s image. 3. Consider someone you…
- With Christ in the School of Prayer ·
Prayer in Harmony with the Destiny of Man cites Gen. i. 26
…xxi. 20. ‘And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.’—Gen. i. 26. ‘WHOSE is this image?’ It was by this question that Jesus foiled His enemies, when they…
- The Master’s Indwelling ·
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…
- The Key Teachings of Athanasius of Alexandria ·
The Portrait Renewed on the Same Wood cites GENESIS 1:26
…written into our nature. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. GENESIS 1:26 But the image was spoiled. Men turned their eyes away from God and downwards, towards…
- The Key Teachings of Watchman Nee ·
The Ministry of Prayer cites Genesis 1:26
…on the doctrine of authority in the earth. God gave dominion over this world to man (Genesis 1:26; Psalm 115:16). Man fell, and that dominion passed in practice to the usurper. In…
- The Key Teachings of Watchman Nee ·
The Overcomers and the Reward cites Genesis 1:26
…not with the fall but with the purpose that preceded it. God’s intention, declared in Genesis 1:26, was a race bearing His image and exercising His dominion. Sin interrupted it; redemption…
- The Big Story ·
The God Who Speaks cites Genesis 1:26
…Instead of “Let there be,” God says, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness” (Genesis 1:26). Then: “So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male…
- Our Daily Walk ·
October cites Gen 1:26
…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…
- Real Questions – Book 3 ·
Why Did God Make Me? cites Genesis 1:26
…reflect Him God made humans “in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule” over the earth (Genesis 1:26), and placed the first man in a garden “to cultivate and keep it” (Genesis 2:15). You…
- Freedom of the Will ·
Section V. Concerning the Notion of Liberty, and of Moral Agency cites Gen. 1:26
…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…
- Sermons on Several Occasions ·
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…
- A Body of Divinity ·
The Creation cites Gen 1:26
…or little world. Man was made with deliberation and counsel. ‘Let us make man.’ Gen 1:26. It is the manner of artificers to be more than ordinarily accurate when they are about…
- The Way Into the Holiest ·
What Is Man? cites Gen. i. 26-28
…which God gave to our first parents in Paradise. Turn to that noble archaic record, Gen. i. 26-28, which transcends the imaginings of modern science as far as it does those legends of…
- The Bondage of the Will ·
Discussion: Part the Second cites Gen. i. 26-30
…present instance: if the event of these things which are temporal, and over which man, Gen. i. 26-30, was constituted lord, be not in our own power, how, I pray you, can that heavenly thing…