Genesis 1:26-2:3

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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)

²⁸God blessed them and said to them,^(M) “Be fruitful and increase in number;^(N) fill the earth^(O) and subdue it. Rule over^(P) the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.^(Q)”

²⁹Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.^(R) ³⁰And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life^(S) in it—I give every green plant for food.^(T)” And it was so.

³¹God saw all that he had made,^(U) and it was very good.^(V) And there was evening, and there was morning^(W)—the sixth day.

2 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.^(X)

²By the seventh day^(Y) God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.^(Z) ³Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy,^(AA) because on it he rested^(AB) from all the work of creating^(AC) that he had done.

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

Genesis 3:17-24

New International Version

¹⁷To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’^(A)

“Cursed^(B) is the ground^(C) because of you;
    through painful toil^(D) you will eat food from it
    all the days of your life.^(E)
¹⁸It will produce thorns and thistles^(F) for you,
    and you will eat the plants of the field.^(G)
¹⁹By the sweat of your brow^(H)
    you will eat your food^(I)
until you return to the ground,
    since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
    and to dust you will return.”^(J)

²⁰Adam^[a] named his wife Eve,^[b]^(K) because she would become the mother of all the living.

²¹The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.^(L) ²²And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us,^(M) knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life^(N) and eat, and live forever.” ²³So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden^(O) to work the ground^(P) from which he had been taken. ²⁴After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side^[c] of the Garden of Eden^(Q) cherubim^(R) and a flaming sword^(S) flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.^(T)

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Genesis 3:20 Or The man
Genesis 3:20 Eve probably means living.
Genesis 3:24 Or placed in front

Romans 8:28-38

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²⁸And we know that in all things God works for the good^(A) of those who love him, who^[a] have been called^(B) according to his purpose.^(C) ²⁹For those God foreknew^(D) he also predestined^(E) to be conformed to the image of his Son,^(F) that he might be the firstborn^(G) among many brothers and sisters. ³⁰And those he predestined,^(H) he also called;^(I) those he called, he also justified;^(J) those he justified, he also glorified.^(K)

More Than Conquerors

³¹What, then, shall we say in response to these things?^(L) If God is for us,^(M) who can be against us?^(N) ³²He who did not spare his own Son,^(O) but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? ³³Who will bring any charge^(P) against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. ³⁴Who then is the one who condemns?^(Q) No one. Christ Jesus who died^(R)—more than that, who was raised to life^(S)—is at the right hand of God^(T) and is also interceding for us.^(U) ³⁵Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?^(V) Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?^(W) ³⁶As it is written:

“For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”^[b]^(X)

³⁷No, in all these things we are more than conquerors^(Y) through him who loved us.^(Z) ³⁸For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,^[c] neither the present nor the future,^(AA) nor any powers,^(AB)

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Romans 8:28 Or that all things work together for good to those who love God, who; or that in all things God works together with those who love him to bring about what is good—with those who
Romans 8:36 Psalm 44:22
Romans 8:38 Or nor heavenly rulers