26 Then God said, “[a]Let (A)Us make (B)mankind in Our image, according to Our likeness; and [b]let them (C)rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the livestock and over all the earth, and over every crawling thing that crawls on the earth.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 1:26 I.e., indicating united action, not a request
  2. Genesis 1:26 I.e., have them rule

27 So God created man (A)in His own image, in the image of God He created him; (B)male and female He created them.

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Then the Lord God formed the man of (A)dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the (B)man became a living [a]person.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 2:7 Or soul

Remember God in Your Youth

12 (A)Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the (B)evil days come and the years approach when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”;

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24 (A)The God who made the world and everything that is in it, since He is (B)Lord of heaven and earth, does not (C)dwell in temples made by hands; 25 nor is He served by human hands, (D)as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things; 26 and (E)He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having (F)determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, 27 that they would seek God, if perhaps they might feel around for Him and find Him, (G)though He is not far from each one of us; 28 for (H)in Him we live and move and [a]exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we also are His descendants.’ 29 Therefore, since we are the descendants of God, we (I)ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by human skill and thought.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 17:28 Lit are

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