Genesis 1:1

The Creation of the World

1In the abeginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Genesis 1:26

26Then God said, b“Let us make man
The Hebrew word for  man (adam) is the generic term for mankind and becomes the proper name Adam
in our image, dafter our likeness. And elet 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.”

Isaiah 44:24

24 Thus says the Lord, fyour Redeemer,
gwho formed you from the womb:
hI am the Lord, who made all things,
iwho alone stretched out the heavens,
who spread out the earth by myself,

John 14:16-23

16And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another jHelper,
Or Advocate, or Counselor; also 14:26; 15:26; 16:7
to be with you forever,
17even lthe Spirit of truth, mwhom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and nwill be
Some manuscripts  and is
in you.


18“I will not leave you as orphans; pI will come to you. 19 qYet a little while and the world will see me no more, but ryou will see me. sBecause I live, you also will live. 20 tIn that day you will know that uI am in my Father, and vyou in me, and wI in you. 21 xWhoever has my commandments and ykeeps them, he it is who loves me. And zhe who loves me aawill be loved by my Father, and I will love him and abmanifest myself to him.” 22 acJudas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it adthat you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?” 23Jesus answered him, aeIf anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and afwe will come to him and agmake our home with him.

Colossians 1:16

16For by
That is,  by means of; or in
him all things were created, aiin heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether ajthrones or akdominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created althrough him and for him.
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