What Does the Bible Say About Created In His Image?

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 11 helpful votes

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 7 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. ...

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Then 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 livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Genesis 1:26-27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Then 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 livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

1 John 1:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

Hebrews 1:1-14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs. For to which of the angels did God ever say, “You are my Son, today I have begotten you”? Or again, “I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son”? ...

Colossians 3:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.

Ephesians 4:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

2 Corinthians 3:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.

Romans 12:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.”

Romans 8:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

Luke 6:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

Matthew 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.

Matthew 5:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.’

Ezekiel 18:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.

Isaiah 64:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But now, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.

Ecclesiastes 3:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.

Psalm 139:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.

Psalm 139:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb.

Psalm 139:1-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether. You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. ...

Genesis 9:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.

Genesis 3:1-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” ...

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Genesis 2:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

Genesis 2:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation. These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens. When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground, ...

1 John 3:2 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.

Philippians 3:21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.

Ephesians 4:24 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.

29 Bible Verses about Created In His Image

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Genesis 1:26-27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 1:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hebrews 1:1-14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Colossians 3:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 3:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 12:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 8:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 6:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ezekiel 18:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 64:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 3:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 139:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 139:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 139:1-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 9:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 3:1-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 John 3:2 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Philippians 3:21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Ephesians 4:24 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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29 Bible Verses about Created In His Image

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Genesis 1:27 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Genesis 1:26-27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 1:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hebrews 1:1-14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Colossians 3:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 3:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 12:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 8:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 6:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ezekiel 18:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 64:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 3:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 139:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 139:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 139:1-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 9:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 3:1-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 John 3:2 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Philippians 3:21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Ephesians 4:24 ESV / 1 helpful vote