Genesis 1:27

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

World English Bible

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’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

28God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

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Cross References

Genesis 2:18The LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

Genesis 5:1This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God’s likeness.

Genesis 9:6Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.

Psalms 139:14I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.

Jeremiah 29:6Take wives and father sons and daughters. Take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters. Multiply there, and don’t be diminished.

Matthew 19:4He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from 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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