What Does the Bible Say About Image And Likeness Of God?

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 63 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 1:26-27 ESV / 56 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.

Ephesians 4:24 ESV / 53 helpful votes

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

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 50 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.”

2 Corinthians 3:18 ESV / 28 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.

Genesis 5:1 ESV / 25 helpful votes

This is the book of the generations of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God.

Genesis 9:6 ESV / 24 helpful votes

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

Colossians 3:10 ESV / 23 helpful votes

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

Genesis 5:3 ESV / 22 helpful votes

When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.

Colossians 1:15 ESV / 21 helpful votes

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

James 3:9 ESV / 19 helpful votes

With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God.

1 Corinthians 11:7 ESV / 17 helpful votes

For a man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God, but woman is the glory of man.

Acts 17:28 ESV / 17 helpful votes

For “‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, “‘For we are indeed his offspring.’

Romans 8:29 ESV / 15 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.

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 15 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.

1 Corinthians 15:49 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.

Acts 17:29 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Being then God's offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man.

2 Corinthians 4:4 ESV / 12 helpful votes

In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

John 17:1-26 ESV / 11 helpful votes

When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do. And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed. ...

John 4:24 ESV / 11 helpful votes

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

Genesis 3:5 ESV / 11 helpful votes

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 1:28 ESV / 10 helpful votes

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

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Isaiah 40:18 ESV / 9 helpful votes

To whom then will you liken God, or what likeness compare with him?

Galatians 3:28-29 ESV / 8 helpful votes

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise.

John 3:16 ESV / 8 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 7 helpful votes

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

1 Corinthians 15:36-37 ESV / 7 helpful votes

You foolish person! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain.

1 Corinthians 2:11-16 ESV / 7 helpful votes

For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual. The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. ...

Colossians 1:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

Ephesians 2:1-10 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— ...

John 14:27 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

John 1:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.

Genesis 2:18-25 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.” Now out of the ground the Lord God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him. So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. ...

Galatians 6:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

From now on let no one cause me trouble, for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.

1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes

The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

James 3:9-10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God. From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.

1 Corinthians 15:40-49 ESV / 4 helpful votes

There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is of one kind, and the glory of the earthly is of another. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory. So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. ...

Acts 10:34-35 ESV / 3 helpful votes

So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.

39 Bible Verses about Image And Likeness Of God

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Genesis 1:26-27 ESV / 56 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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James 3:9 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 11:7 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Romans 8:29 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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2 Corinthians 4:4 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 17:1-26 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Genesis 3:5 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 1:28 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 40:18 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 3:28-29 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 15:36-37 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Colossians 1:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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John 14:27 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 1:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 2:18-25 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 6:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 3:9-10 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 15:40-49 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 10:34-35 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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