Genesis 1:26-27

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²⁶Then God said, “Let us^(A) make mankind^(B) in our image,^(C) in our likeness,^(D) so that they may rule^(E) over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky,^(F) over the livestock and all the wild animals,^[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

²⁷So God created^(G) mankind^(H) in his own image,^(I)
in the image of God^(J) he created them;
male and female^(K) he created them.^(L)

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Footnotes

Genesis 1:26 Probable reading of the original Hebrew text (see Syriac); Masoretic Text the earth

Matthew 10:22

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²²You will be hated by everyone because of me,^(A) but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved.^(B)

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Matthew 10:22 in all English translations

Acts 17:23

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²³For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: to an unknown god. So you are ignorant of the very thing you worship^(A)—and this is what I am going to proclaim to you.

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Acts 17:23 in all English translations

Romans 1:20-24

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²⁰For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made,^(A) so that people are without excuse.^(B)

²¹For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.^(C) ²²Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools^(D) ²³and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images^(E) made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.

²⁴Therefore God gave them over^(F) in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.^(G)

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