Genesis 1:27

So God created human beings in his own image. He created them in the image of God. He created them male and female.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

26God said, “Let us make human beings in our image who are like us. They will have authority over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over the whole of the earth and every creature that moves on it.”

28God blessed them and told them, “Reproduce, increase, and spread throughout the earth and control it; exercise authority over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the earth.”

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Cross References

Genesis 2:18Then the Lord God said, “It's not good for Adam to be alone. I will make someone to help him, someone that's like him.”

Genesis 5:1This is the record of Adam's descendants. When God created human beings, he made them to be like him.

Genesis 9:6Whoever sheds the blood of a human being will have their blood shed by human beings. For God made human beings in his image.

Psalms 139:14I praise you for making me in such an awesome and wonderful way. What you do is incredible—I realize this completely!

Jeremiah 29:6Get married and have children. Arrange for your children to get married so they can have children too. Increase in number, don't decrease.

Matthew 19:4Jesus replied, “Haven't you read that God who created people in the beginning made them male and female?

Matthew Henry on Genesis 1:27-29

The Creation. ( b. c. 4004.) 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 fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have… Read the whole commentary →

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