"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…" — Genesis 1:26

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 1:26

Verse 25

And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that {it was} good.

Verse 27

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

Genesis 1 — Context

And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.

And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that {it was} good.

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.

And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. {moveth: Heb. creepeth}

Cross References

Colossians 3:10

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

Ephesians 4:24

And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. {true...: or, holiness of truth}

Psalms 8:4-8

What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

Genesis 3:22

And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

Psalms 100:3

Know ye that the LORD he {is} God: {it is} he {that} hath made us, and not we ourselves; {we are} his people, and the sheep of his pasture. {and not...: or, and his we are}

Genesis 5:1

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

2 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. {by the...: or, of the Lord the Spirit}

Genesis 9:2-4

And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth {upon} the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.