Genesis 1:26

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high,

seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

“He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, and would turn, and I would heal them.”

Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, ‘Show us the Father?’

and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

One who has my commandments and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, has declared him.

For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.

As we have borne the image of those made of dust, let’s also bear the image of the heavenly.

Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

Yahweh God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever—”

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.”

Your hands have made me and formed me. Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.

You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay; that the thing made should say about him who made it, “He didn’t make me;” or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding?”

“House of Israel, can’t I do with you as this potter?” says Yahweh. “Behold, as the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.

I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.

If you love me, keep my commandments.

Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,

With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men who are made in the image of God.

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.

Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.”

in holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life.

We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

But their minds were hardened, for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in Christ it passes away.

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;

Therefore, as for you, let that remain in you which you heard from the beginning. If that which you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son, and in the Father.

Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

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

Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.

“ ‘He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death.

Oh come, let’s worship and bow down. Let’s kneel before Yahweh, our Maker,

Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

A man who is tormented by life blood will be a fugitive until death; no one will support him.

Woe to him who strives with his Maker— a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands?’

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.

For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says, “I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they will serve him. I have also given him the animals of the field.” ’ ”

All things were made through him. Without him, nothing was made that has been made.

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”

Or hasn’t the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator.

But God’s love has most certainly been perfected in whoever keeps his word. This is how we know that we are in him:

We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

“To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: “The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of God’s creation, says these things:

You make him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet:

Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place, for all those who take the sword will die by the sword.

The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, God’s love, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience.

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

If anyone is to go into captivity, he will go into captivity. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, he must be killed. Here is the endurance and the faith of the saints.

behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,” says Yahweh, “and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations around. I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.

For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man.

For there are three who testify:

For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and sea creature, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind;

Let Israel rejoice in him who made them. Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.

Behold, I have only found this: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes.”

For Yahweh who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and didn’t create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited says: “I am Yahweh. There is no other.

who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

Will you trust him, because his strength is great? Or will you leave to him your labor?

I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth existed.

We will make you earrings of gold, with studs of silver.

I heard the Lord’s voice, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here I am. Send me!”

Now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant. I have also given the animals of the field to him to serve him.

You foolish ones, didn’t he who made the outside make the inside also?

Jesus therefore answered them, “Most certainly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise.

Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.

He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,

Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”

Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

But Jesus answered them, “My Father is still working, so I am working, too.”