What Does the Bible Say About Where Did We Come From?

John 1:3 ESV / 21 helpful votes

All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.

Colossians 1:16 ESV / 20 helpful votes

For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 20 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 1:1-31 ESV / 12 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. ...

John 3:16 ESV / 10 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.

Genesis 2:15 ESV / 8 helpful votes

The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.

Isaiah 45:12 ESV / 7 helpful votes

I made the earth and created man on it; it was my hands that stretched out the heavens, and I commanded all their host.

Micah 5:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes

But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days.

Isaiah 44:24 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, who formed you from the womb: “I am the Lord, who made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who spread out the earth by myself,

Genesis 1:31 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Genesis 5:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

The days of Adam after he fathered Seth were 800 years; and he had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 1:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

Revelation 4:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.”

1 Corinthians 2:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”—

Luke 19:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”

Isaiah 9:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Revelation 19:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

On his robe and on his thigh he has a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords.

Revelation 3:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

Romans 5:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—

John 14:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

John 8:36 ESV / 3 helpful votes

So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.

John 8:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

Mark 16:15-18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

Genesis 4:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch. When he built a city, he called the name of the city after the name of his son, Enoch.

Genesis 2:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.

Genesis 27:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now therefore, my son, obey my voice as I command you.

Genesis 5:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

Genesis 3:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”

Genesis 2:21-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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.

Genesis 2:19-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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.

Genesis 2:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed.

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 2 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.

Genesis 2:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation. These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens. When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground, ...

Genesis 2:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

Genesis 1:26-27 ESV / 2 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.

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 2 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.”

Genesis 1:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds—livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so.

38 Bible Verses about Where Did We Come From

John 1:3 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 1:16 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 2:15 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 45:12 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Micah 5:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 44:24 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 1:31 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Revelation 4:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 2:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 19:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 9:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 19:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Romans 5:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 14:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 8:36 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 8:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 16:15-18 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 4:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Genesis 27:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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