Genesis 1:26

26 Then God said, “Let us make man [1] 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 5:1

Adam's Descendants to Noah

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

Genesis 9:6

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

1 Corinthians 11:7

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.

Ephesians 4:24

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

Colossians 3:10

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

James 3:9

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

Translation Notes

[1] 1:26 The Hebrew word for man (adam) is the generic term for mankind and becomes the proper name Adam

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