What Does the Bible Say About Image of God?
Here are 13 Bible verses about Image of God, ordered by how relevant readers found them, with the King James Version and the modern Berean Standard Bible side by side.
- #1Genesis 1:27
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
BSBSo God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
- #2Genesis 1:26-27
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. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
BSBThen God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.” So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
- #3Genesis 9:6
Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
BSBWhoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.
- #4Genesis 1:26
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.
BSBThen God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”
- #5Colossians 3:10
And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
BSBand have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
- #6Hebrews 1:3
Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
BSBThe Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His nature, upholding all things by His powerful word. After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
- #72 Corinthians 4:4
In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
BSBThe god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
- #81 Corinthians 11:7
For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.
BSBA man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man.
- #92 Corinthians 3:18
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
BSBAnd we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into His image with intensifying glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
- #10Colossians 1:15
Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
BSBThe Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
- #11Ephesians 4:24
And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
BSBand to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
- #12Romans 8:29
For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
BSBFor those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.
- #13James 3:9
Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.
BSBWith the tongue we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God’s likeness.
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