Genesis 1:26
1599 Geneva Bible
26 Furthermore God said, (A)[a]Let us make man in our [b]image according to our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heaven, and over the beasts, and over all the earth, and over everything that creepeth and moveth on the earth.
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- Genesis 1:26 God commanded the water and the earth to bring forth other creatures: but of man he saith, Let us make: signifying, that God taketh counsel with his wisdom and virtue, purposing to make an excellent work above all the rest of his creation.
- Genesis 1:26 This image and likeness of God in man is expounded, Eph. 4:24, where it is written that man was created after God in righteousness and true holiness, meaning by these two words, all perfection, as wisdom, truth, innocence, power, etc.
Genesis 5:1
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5 The genealogy. 5 The age and death of Adam. 6 His succeession unto Noah and his children. 24 Enoch was taken away.
1 This is the [a]book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created Adam, in the [b]likeness of God made he him,
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- Genesis 5:1 Or, rehearsal of the stock.
- Genesis 5:1 Read Gen. 1:26.
Genesis 9:6
1599 Geneva Bible
6 Who so (A)sheddeth man’s blood, [a]by man shall his blood be shed: (B)for in the [b]image of God hath he made man.
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- Genesis 9:6 Not only by the magistrate, but oft times God raiseth up one murderer to kill another.
- Genesis 9:6 Therefore to kill man is to deface God’s image, and so injury is not only done to man, but also to God.
Colossians 3:10
1599 Geneva Bible
10 And have put on the new, [a]which is renewed in [b]knowledge after the image of him that created him,
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- Colossians 3:10 Newness of life consisteth in knowledge, which transformeth man to the image of God his maker, that is to say, to the sincerity and pureness of the whole soul.
- Colossians 3:10 He speaketh of an effectual knowledge.
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