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12 Bible verses about the Image of God KJV

God made man in his own image, and Genesis says it three times in two verses, as if daring the reader to miss it. It is also why Genesis 9 and James 3 treat an attack on a person as an attack on something of God's.

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Genesis 1:26 · KJV

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.

Genesis 1:27 · KJV

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Genesis 5:1 · KJV

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;

Genesis 9:6 · KJV

Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

Psalm 139:13-14 · KJV

For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.

Psalm 8:5 · KJV

For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.

James 3:9 · KJV

Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.

Colossians 3:10 · KJV

And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:

Ephesians 4:24 · KJV

And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

1 Corinthians 11:7 · KJV

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.

Acts 17:28 · KJV

For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

Romans 8:29 · KJV

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.

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