Genesis 1:28
God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and every living creature that moves along the ground."
Treated in 8 passages across the library.
Where it is preached
- Sermons on Several Occasions ·
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…
- Faithful With Little ·
Made to Work, Called to Keep cites Genesis 1:28
…in the sea, the birds in the sky, and every living creature that moves along the ground” (Genesis 1:28). Theologians call it the creation mandate. It means that ordinary work, farming…
- Real Questions – Book 2 ·
Should Christians Care About the Planet? cites Genesis 1:28
…“fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air” (Genesis 1:28). Some people have read that as permission to use the earth however we like. But the next…
- The Big Story ·
The God Who Speaks cites Genesis 1:28
…are a blessing and a job: “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it” (Genesis 1:28). Every person you will ever meet carries that image: the popular kid and the one nobody…
- The Way Into the Holiest ·
What Is Man? cites Gen. i. 28
…be one day transformed to the perfect image of his beauty. "And God said, Have dominion" (Gen. i. 28). -There you have royal supremacy. Man was intended to be God's viceregent and…
- A Body of Divinity ·
The Creation cites Gen 1:28
…or as a king into his palace. ‘Have dominion over every living thing that moveth.’ Gen 1:28. God’s driving Adam out of paradise signified his dethroning and banishing him, that he…
- A Body of Divinity ·
Adam's Sin cites Gen 1:28
…fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth.’ Gen 1:28. But he lost all at one throw. Soon as he sinned, he forfeited paradise. 2. Adam’s fall…
- 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…