God As Creator
From the beginning in Genesis to the Book of Revelation when ‘all the elders cast their crowns before Him who sits on the throne and lives forever and they worship Him because he created all things and by His will they have their being’, we are constantly reminded that God made it all.
In the longest discourse that God has, aside from the giving of the law, he speaks to Job and friends for five long chapters, presenting his ‘Creator resume’ as the primary evidence for his authority, power and sovereignty. Job, humbled beyond words, covers his mouth with his hands. Clearly, God’s self-assessment holds his Creator position as critical in relationship to us. The bigger question is, “Do we hold his Creator role as critical to us?”
All in all, there are about 200 verses in the bible besides the first two chapters in Genesis that refer to God as the creator of everything…from the ant to the heavens. God leaves us with no doubt throughout his Word. He made it all. It leaves the believer who prefers to think that it all started with God’s big bang with swiss cheese-looking bible. No, we aren’t offered a choice. God is the Creator. And we are called to worship him accordingly.
We seem to have stepped away in the last century from our acknowledgement and worship of God as Creator. Perhaps it’s because as a technologically advancing planet, we are more and more removed from the ‘created’. Or perhaps it’s with the advent of science that we have opted for a more Darwinian perspective. Maybe for the church, it’s because we feel uncomfortable with the things of ‘nature’ having associated them with a variety of movements from New Age to liberal ‘tree huggers’. Or maybe we are just inside too much and can easily control our environments with thermostats, light switches and electronics. There once was a time when the ultimate punishment was to confine a prisoner to the inside, without any outdoor time. Now, we self impose those restrictions, barely glancing up from our phones and screens to notice the light of day, let alone the world in all its changing glory.
With the departure from the created, comes a departure from the Creator. Once we no longer care about the art, we cease to care about the artist.
Consider the verses below and take time to meditate on their significance and God’s role in our world, and specifically your life as the Creator.
| Address | Verse | Link |
| Genesis 1:1-2 | In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=genesis+1%3A1-2&version=NIV |
| Genesis 1:3-5 | 3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=genesis+1%3A3-5&version=NIV |
| Genesis 1:6-8 | 6 And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.” 7 So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the vault “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=genesis+1%3A6-8&version=NIV |
| Genesis 1:9-10 | 9 And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=genesis+1%3A9-10&version=NIV |
| Genesis 1:11-13 | 11 Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=genesis+1%3A11-12&version=NIV |
| Genesis 1:14-16a | 14 And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=genesis+1%3A14-16a&version=NIV |
| Genesis 1:16b-19 | He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=genesis+1%3A16b-19&version=NIV |
| Genesis 1:20-23 | 20 And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky.” 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.” 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=genesis+1%3A20-23&version=NIV |
| Genesis 1:24-25 | 24 And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=genesis+1%3A24-25&version=NIV |
| Genesis 1:26-28 | 26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”27 So God created mankind in his own image,in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.” | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=genesis+1%3A26-28&version=NIV |
| Genesis 1:29-31 | 29 Then 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. 30 And 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 in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so.31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=genesis+1%3A29-31&version=NIV |
| Genesis 2:1-3 | Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. 2 By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. 3 Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=genesis+2%3A1-3&version=NIV |
| Genesis 2:4 | Adam and Eve4 This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, when the Lord God made the earth and the heavens. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=genesis+2%3A4&version=NIV |
| Genesis 2:5-7 | 5 Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth[a] and no plant had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground, 6 but streams[b] came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground. 7 Then the Lord God formed a man[c] from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=genesis+2%3A5-7&version=NIV |
| Genesis 2:8-9 | 8 Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed. 9 The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=genesis+2%3A8-9&version=NIV |
| Genesis 2:19-20 | 19 Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. 20 So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=genesis+2%3A19-20&version=NIV |
| Genesis 2:21-22 | But for Adam[f] no suitable helper was found. 21 So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs[g] and then closed up the place with flesh. 22 Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib[h] he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=genesis+2%3A21-22&version=NIV |
| Genesis 3:19 | By the sweat of your browyou will eat your fooduntil you return to the ground,since from it you were taken;for dust you areand to dust you will return.” | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=genesis+3%3A19&version=NLV |
| Genesis 5:1-2 | This is the written account of Adam’s family line.When God created mankind, he made them in the likeness of God. 2 He created them male and female and blessed them. And he named them “Mankind”[a] when they were created. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=genesis+5%3A1-2&version=NLV |
| Genesis 6:7 | 7 So the Lord said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.” | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=genesis+6%3A7&version=NLV |
| Genesis 7 | 4 Seven days from now I will send rain on the forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.” | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=genesis+7%3A4&version=NLV |
| Exodus 31:17 | It will be a sign between me and the Israelites forever, for in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.’” | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=exodus+31%3A17&version=NIV |
| Exodus 20:11 NIV | 11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=exodus+20%3A11&version=NIV |
| Numbers 27:16 | “May the Lord , the God who gives breath to all living things, appoint someone over this community | https://numbers.bible/numbers-27-16 |
| Deuteronomy 4:32 NIV | Ask now about the former days, long before your time, from the day God created human beings on the earth; ask from one end of the heavens to the other. Has anything so great as this ever happened, or has anything like it ever been heard of? | https://deuteronomy.bible/deuteronomy-4-32 |
| Deuteronomy 32:6 | Is he not your Father, your Creator,[a] who made you and formed you? | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+32%3A6&version=NIV |
| Deuteronomy 32:39 | “See now that I myself am he! There is no god besides me. I put to death and I bring to life, I have wounded and I will heal, and no one can deliver out of my hand. | https://deuteronomy.bible/deuteronomy-32-39 |
| 1 Samuel 2:8 | For the foundations of the earth are the Lord’s; on them he has set the world | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Samuel+2%3A8&version=NIV |
| 2 Kings 19:15 | And Hezekiah prayed to the Lord: “Lord, the God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, you alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Kings+19%3A15&version=NIV |
| 1 Chronicles 16:26 NIV | For all the gods of the nations are idols, but the Lord made the heavens. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Chronicles+16%3A26&version=NIV |
| 2 Chronicles 2:12 NIV | 12 And Hiram added: “Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, who made heaven and earth! He has given King David a wise son, endowed with intelligence and discernment, who will build a temple for the Lord and a palace for himself. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Chronicles+2%3A12&version=NIV |
| Nehemiah 9:6 NIV | You alone are the Lord . You made the heavens, even the highest heavens, and all their starry host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to everything, and the multitudes of heaven worship you. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Nehemiah+9:6&version=NIV |
| Nehemiah 9:11-15 NIV | You divided the sea before them, so that they passed through it on dry ground, but you hurled their pursuers into the depths, like a stone into mighty waters. 12 By day you led them with a pillar of cloud, and by night with a pillar of fire to give them light on the way they were to take.13 “You came down on Mount Sinai; you spoke to them from heaven. You gave them regulations and laws that are just and right, and decrees and commands that are good. 14 You made known to them your holy Sabbath and gave them commands, decrees and laws through your servant Moses. 15 In their hunger you gave them bread from heaven and in their thirst you brought them water from the rock; you told them to go in and take possession of the land you had sworn with uplifted hand to give them. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=nehemiah+9%3A11-15&version=NIV |
| Nehemiah 9:19-20 NIV | “Because of your great compassion you did not abandon them in the wilderness. By day the pillar of cloud did not fail to guide them on their path, nor the pillar of fire by night to shine on the way they were to take. 20 You gave your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold your manna from their mouths, and you gave them water for their thirst. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=nehemiah+9%3A19-20&version=NIV |
| Job 5:9-10 | He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed,miracles that cannot be counted.10 He provides rain for the earth;he sends water on the countryside. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job+5%3A9-10&version=NIV |
| Job 9:5-10 NIV | He moves mountains without their knowing it and overturns them in his anger. He shakes the earth from its place and makes its pillars tremble. He speaks to the sun and it does not shine; he seals off the light of the stars. He alone stretches out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea. He is the Maker of the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades and the constellations of the south. He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed, miracles that cannot be counted. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job+9%3A5-10&version=NIV |
| Job 10: 8-9 | “Your hands shaped me and made me.Will you now turn and destroy me?9 Remember that you molded me like clay.Will you now turn me to dust again? | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job+10%3A8-9&version=NIV |
| Job 10:12 | Did you not pour me out like milkand curdle me like cheese,11 clothe me with skin and fleshand knit me together with bones and sinews?12 You gave me life and showed me kindness,and in your providence watched over my spirit. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job+10%3A10-12&version=NIV |
| Job 10:18 | “Why then did you bring me out of the womb? | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job+10%3A18&version=NIV |
| Job 25:2 NIV | “Dominion and awe belong to God; he establishes order in the heights of heaven. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=job+25%3A2&version=NIV |
| Job 26:7-14 NIV | He spreads out the northern skies over empty space; he suspends the earth over nothing. He wraps up the waters in his clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their weight. He covers the face of the full moon, spreading his clouds over it. He marks out the horizon on the face of the waters for a boundary between light and darkness. The pillars of the heavens quake, aghast at his rebuke. By his power he churned up the sea; by his wisdom he cut Rahab to pieces. By his breath the skies became fair; his hand pierced the gliding serpent. And these are but the outer fringe of his works; how faint the whisper we hear of him! Who then can understand the thunder of his power?” | http://bible.com/111/job.26.7-14.NIV |
| Job 28:24-27 | for he views the ends of the earthand sees everything under the heavens.25 When he established the force of the windand measured out the waters,26 when he made a decree for the rainand a path for the thunderstorm,27 then he looked at wisdom and appraised it;he confirmed it and tested it. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job+28%3A24-27&version=NIV |
| Job 33:4 | The Spirit of God has made me;the breath of the Almighty gives me life. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job+33%3A4&version=NIV |
| Job 35:10 | But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker,who gives songs in the night,11 who teaches us more than he teaches[a] the beasts of the earthand makes us wiser than[b] the birds in the sky?’ | |
| Job 36:24-33 NIV | Remember to extol his work, which people have praised in song. All humanity has seen it; mortals gaze on it from afar. How great is God—beyond our understanding! The number of his years is past finding out. “He draws up the drops of water, which distill as rain to the streams ; the clouds pour down their moisture and abundant showers fall on mankind. Who can understand how he spreads out the clouds, how he thunders from his pavilion? See how he scatters his lightning about him, bathing the depths of the sea. This is the way he governs the nations and provides food in abundance. He fills his hands with lightning and commands it to strike its mark. His thunder announces the coming storm; even the cattle make known its approach. | |
| Job 37:2-23 NIV | Listen! Listen to the roar of his voice, to the rumbling that comes from his mouth. He unleashes his lightning beneath the whole heaven and sends it to the ends of the earth. After that comes the sound of his roar; he thunders with his majestic voice. When his voice resounds, he holds nothing back. God’s voice thunders in marvelous ways; he does great things beyond our understanding. He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ and to the rain shower, ‘Be a mighty downpour.’ So that everyone he has made may know his work, he stops all people from their labor. The animals take cover; they remain in their dens. The tempest comes out from its chamber, the cold from the driving winds. The breath of God produces ice, and the broad waters become frozen. He loads the clouds with moisture; he scatters his lightning through them. At his direction they swirl around over the face of the whole earth to do whatever he commands them. He brings the clouds to punish people, or to water his earth and show his love. “Listen to this, Job; stop and consider God’s wonders. Do you know how God controls the clouds and makes his lightning flash? Do you know how the clouds hang poised, those wonders of him who has perfect knowledge? You who swelter in your clothes when the land lies hushed under the south wind, can you join him in spreading out the skies, hard as a mirror of cast bronze? “Tell us what we should say to him; we cannot draw up our case because of our darkness. Should he be told that I want to speak? Would anyone ask to be swallowed up? Now no one can look at the sun, bright as it is in the skies after the wind has swept them clean. Out of the north he comes in golden splendor; God comes in awesome majesty. The Almighty is beyond our reach and exalted in power; in his justice and great righteousness, he does not oppress. | http://bible.com/111/job.37.2-23.NIV |
| Job 38:1-41 NIV | Then the Lord spoke to Job out of the storm. He said: “Who is this that obscures my plans with words without knowledge? Brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer me. “Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell me, if you understand. Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it? On what were its footings set, or who laid its cornerstone— while the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy? “Who shut up the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb, when I made the clouds its garment and wrapped it in thick darkness, when I fixed limits for it and set its doors and bars in place, when I said, ‘This far you may come and no farther; here is where your proud waves halt’? “Have you ever given orders to the morning, or shown the dawn its place, that it might take the earth by the edges and shake the wicked out of it? The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its features stand out like those of a garment. The wicked are denied their light, and their upraised arm is broken. “Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea or walked in the recesses of the deep? Have the gates of death been shown to you? Have you seen the gates of the deepest darkness? Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth? Tell me, if you know all this. “What is the way to the abode of light? And where does darkness reside? Can you take them to their places? Do you know the paths to their dwellings? Surely you know, for you were already born! You have lived so many years! “Have you entered the storehouses of the snow or seen the storehouses of the hail, which I reserve for times of trouble, for days of war and battle? What is the way to the place where the lightning is dispersed, or the place where the east winds are scattered over the earth? Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain, and a path for the thunderstorm, to water a land where no one lives, an uninhabited desert, to satisfy a desolate wasteland and make it sprout with grass? Does the rain have a father? Who fathers the drops of dew? From whose womb comes the ice? Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens when the waters become hard as stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen? “Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades? Can you loosen Orion’s belt? Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear with its cubs? Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set up God’s dominion over the earth? “Can you raise your voice to the clouds and cover yourself with a flood of water? Do you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’? Who gives the ibis wisdom or gives the rooster understanding? Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Who can tip over the water jars of the heavens when the dust becomes hard and the clods of earth stick together? “Do you hunt the prey for the lioness and satisfy the hunger of the lions when they crouch in their dens or lie in wait in a thicket? Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God and wander about for lack of food? | http://bible.com/111/job.38.1-41.NIV |
| Job 39:1-30 | “Do you know when the mountain goats give birth?Do you watch when the doe bears her fawn?2 Do you count the months till they bear?Do you know the time they give birth?3 They crouch down and bring forth their young;their labor pains are ended.4 Their young thrive and grow strong in the wilds;they leave and do not return. 5 “Who let the wild donkey go free?Who untied its ropes?6 I gave it the wasteland as its home,the salt flats as its habitat.7 It laughs at the commotion in the town;it does not hear a driver’s shout.8 It ranges the hills for its pastureand searches for any green thing. 9 “Will the wild ox consent to serve you?Will it stay by your manger at night?10 Can you hold it to the furrow with a harness?Will it till the valleys behind you?11 Will you rely on it for its great strength?Will you leave your heavy work to it?12 Can you trust it to haul in your grainand bring it to your threshing floor? 13 “The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully,though they cannot comparewith the wings and feathers of the stork.14 She lays her eggs on the groundand lets them warm in the sand,15 unmindful that a foot may crush them,that some wild animal may trample them.16 She treats her young harshly, as if they were not hers;she cares not that her labor was in vain,17 for God did not endow her with wisdomor give her a share of good sense.18 Yet when she spreads her feathers to run,she laughs at horse and rider. 19 “Do you give the horse its strengthor clothe its neck with a flowing mane?20 Do you make it leap like a locust,striking terror with its proud snorting?21 It paws fiercely, rejoicing in its strength,and charges into the fray.22 It laughs at fear, afraid of nothing;it does not shy away from the sword.23 The quiver rattles against its side,along with the flashing spear and lance.24 In frenzied excitement it eats up the ground;it cannot stand still when the trumpet sounds.25 At the blast of the trumpet it snorts, ‘Aha!’It catches the scent of battle from afar,the shout of commanders and the battle cry. 26 “Does the hawk take flight by your wisdomand spread its wings toward the south?27 Does the eagle soar at your commandand build its nest on high?28 It dwells on a cliff and stays there at night;a rocky crag is its stronghold.29 From there it looks for food;its eyes detect it from afar.30 Its young ones feast on blood,and where the slain are, there it is.” | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job+39%3A1-30&version=NIV |
| JOB 40:6-41:34 NIV | 6 Then the Lord spoke to Job out of the storm: 7 “Brace yourself like a man;I will question you,and you shall answer me.8 “Would you discredit my justice?Would you condemn me to justify yourself?9 Do you have an arm like God’s,and can your voice thunder like his?10 Then adorn yourself with glory and splendor,and clothe yourself in honor and majesty.11 Unleash the fury of your wrath,look at all who are proud and bring them low,12 look at all who are proud and humble them,crush the wicked where they stand.13 Bury them all in the dust together;shroud their faces in the grave.14 Then I myself will admit to youthat your own right hand can save you.15 “Look at Behemoth,which I made along with youand which feeds on grass like an ox.16 What strength it has in its loins,what power in the muscles of its belly!17 Its tail sways like a cedar;the sinews of its thighs are close-knit.18 Its bones are tubes of bronze,its limbs like rods of iron.19 It ranks first among the works of God,yet its Maker can approach it with his sword.20 The hills bring it their produce,and all the wild animals play nearby.21 Under the lotus plants it lies,hidden among the reeds in the marsh.22 The lotuses conceal it in their shadow;the poplars by the stream surround it.23 A raging river does not alarm it;it is secure, though the Jordan should surge against its mouth.24 Can anyone capture it by the eyes,or trap it and pierce its nose?41 [a]“Can you pull in Leviathan with a fishhookor tie down its tongue with a rope?2 Can you put a cord through its noseor pierce its jaw with a hook?3 Will it keep begging you for mercy?Will it speak to you with gentle words?4 Will it make an agreement with youfor you to take it as your slave for life?5 Can you make a pet of it like a birdor put it on a leash for the young women in your house?6 Will traders barter for it?Will they divide it up among the merchants?7 Can you fill its hide with harpoonsor its head with fishing spears?8 If you lay a hand on it,you will remember the struggle and never do it again!9 Any hope of subduing it is false;the mere sight of it is overpowering.10 No one is fierce enough to rouse it.Who then is able to stand against me?11 Who has a claim against me that I must pay?Everything under heaven belongs to me.12 “I will not fail to speak of Leviathan’s limbs,its strength and its graceful form.13 Who can strip off its outer coat?Who can penetrate its double coat of armor[b]?14 Who dares open the doors of its mouth,ringed about with fearsome teeth?15 Its back has[c] rows of shieldstightly sealed together;16 each is so close to the nextthat no air can pass between.17 They are joined fast to one another;they cling together and cannot be parted.18 Its snorting throws out flashes of light;its eyes are like the rays of dawn.19 Flames stream from its mouth;sparks of fire shoot out.20 Smoke pours from its nostrilsas from a boiling pot over burning reeds.21 Its breath sets coals ablaze,and flames dart from its mouth.22 Strength resides in its neck;dismay goes before it.23 The folds of its flesh are tightly joined;they are firm and immovable.24 Its chest is hard as rock,hard as a lower millstone.25 When it rises up, the mighty are terrified;they retreat before its thrashing.26 The sword that reaches it has no effect,nor does the spear or the dart or the javelin.27 Iron it treats like strawand bronze like rotten wood.28 Arrows do not make it flee;slingstones are like chaff to it.29 A club seems to it but a piece of straw;it laughs at the rattling of the lance.30 Its undersides are jagged potsherds,leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.31 It makes the depths churn like a boiling caldronand stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment.32 It leaves a glistening wake behind it;one would think the deep had white hair.33 Nothing on earth is its equal—a creature without fear.34 It looks down on all that are haughty;it is king over all that are proud.” | |
| Psalm 8:3-9 | When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them? You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor. You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet: all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild, the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas. Lord , our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=psalm+8%3A3-9&version=NIV |
| Psalm 24:1-2 | The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it,the world, and all who live in it;2 for he founded it on the seasand established it on the waters. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+24%3A1&version=NIV |
| Psalm 33:5-6 | The Lord loves righteousness and justice;the earth is full of his unfailing love. 6 By the word of the Lord the heavens were made,their starry host by the breath of his mouth. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+33%3A5-6&version=NIV |
| Psalm 33:7-15 NIV | 7 He gathers the waters of the sea into jars[a];he puts the deep into storehouses.8 Let all the earth fear the Lord;let all the people of the world revere him.9 For he spoke, and it came to be;he commanded, and it stood firm.10 The Lord foils the plans of the nations;he thwarts the purposes of the peoples.11 But the plans of the Lord stand firm forever,the purposes of his heart through all generations.12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,the people he chose for his inheritance.13 From heaven the Lord looks downand sees all mankind;14 from his dwelling place he watchesall who live on earth—15 he who forms the hearts of all,who considers everything they do | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+33%3A7-15&version=NIV |
| Psalm 43:3 | Send me your light and your faithful care, let them lead me;let them bring me to your holy mountain,to the place where you dwell. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=psalm+43%3A3&version=NIV |
| Psalm 65:5-13 NIV | You answer us with awesome and righteous deeds, God our Savior, the hope of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest seas, who formed the mountains by your power, having armed yourself with strength, who stilled the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and the turmoil of the nations. The whole earth is filled with awe at your wonders; where morning dawns, where evening fades, you call forth songs of joy. You care for the land and water it; you enrich it abundantly. The streams of God are filled with water to provide the people with grain, for so you have ordained it. You drench its furrows and level its ridges; you soften it with showers and bless its crops. You crown the year with your bounty, and your carts overflow with abundance. The grasslands of the wilderness overflow; the hills are clothed with gladness. The meadows are covered with flocks and the valleys are mantled with grain; they shout for joy and sing. | http://bible.com/111/psa.65.5-13.NIV |
| Psalm 74:13-17 | It was you who split open the sea by your power;you broke the heads of the monster in the waters.14 It was you who crushed the heads of Leviathanand gave it as food to the creatures of the desert.15 It was you who opened up springs and streams;you dried up the ever-flowing rivers.16 The day is yours, and yours also the night;you established the sun and moon.17 It was you who set all the boundaries of the earth;you made both summer and winter. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=psalm+74%3A13-17&version=NIV |
| Psalms 78:69 NIV | He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth that he established forever. | https://psalm.bible/psalm-78-69 |
| Psalm 89:2 | I will declare that your love stands firm forever,that you have established your faithfulness in heaven itself. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+89%3A2&version=NIV |
| Psalm 89 5-13 | The heavens praise your wonders, Lord, your faithfulness too, in the assembly of the holy ones. For who in the skies above can compare with the Lord ? Who is like the Lord among the heavenly beings? In the council of the holy ones God is greatly feared; he is more awesome than all who surround him. Who is like you, Lord God Almighty? You, Lord , are mighty, and your faithfulness surrounds you. You rule over the surging sea; when its waves mount up, you still them. You crushed Rahab like one of the slain; with your strong arm you scattered your enemies. The heavens are yours, and yours also the earth; you founded the world and all that is in it. You created the north and the south; Tabor and Hermon sing for joy at your name. | http://bible.com/111/psa.89.5-12.NIV |
| Psalm 89:47 NIV | Remember how fleeting is my life.For what futility you have created all humanity! | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+89%3A47&version=NIV |
| Psalm 90:2 | Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the whole world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God. | https://psalm.bible/psalm-90-2 |
| Psalm 93:1-4 | The Lord reigns, he is robed in majesty;the Lord is robed in majesty and armed with strength;indeed, the world is established, firm and secure.2 Your throne was established long ago;you are from all eternity. 3 The seas have lifted up, Lord,the seas have lifted up their voice;the seas have lifted up their pounding waves.4 Mightier than the thunder of the great waters,mightier than the breakers of the sea—the Lord on high is mighty. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+93%3A1-4&version=NIV |
| Psalm 94:9 NIV | Does he who fashioned the ear not hear? Does he who formed the eye not see? | https://psalm.bible/psalm-94-9 |
| Psalm 95:4-5 NIV | In his hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to him. The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land. | http://bible.com/111/psa.95.4-5.NIV |
| Psalm 100:1-3 NIV | Shout for joy to the Lord , all the earth. Worship the Lord with gladness; come before him with joyful songs. Know that the Lord is God. It is he who made us, and we are his ; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture. | http://bible.com/111/psa.100.1-3.NIV |
| Psalm 102:25-26 NIV | In the beginning you laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. They will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment. Like clothing you will change them and they will be discarded. | http://bible.com/111/psa.102.25-26.NIV |
| Psalm 104 | 1 Praise the Lord, my soul.Lord my God, you are very great;you are clothed with splendor and majesty.2 The Lord wraps himself in light as with a garment;he stretches out the heavens like a tent3 and lays the beams of his upper chambers on their waters.He makes the clouds his chariotand rides on the wings of the wind.4 He makes winds his messengers,[a]flames of fire his servants.5 He set the earth on its foundations;it can never be moved.6 You covered it with the watery depths as with a garment;the waters stood above the mountains.7 But at your rebuke the waters fled,at the sound of your thunder they took to flight;8 they flowed over the mountains,they went down into the valleys,to the place you assigned for them.9 You set a boundary they cannot cross;never again will they cover the earth.10 He makes springs pour water into the ravines;it flows between the mountains.11 They give water to all the beasts of the field;the wild donkeys quench their thirst.12 The birds of the sky nest by the waters;they sing among the branches.13 He waters the mountains from his upper chambers;the land is satisfied by the fruit of his work.14 He makes grass grow for the cattle,and plants for people to cultivate—bringing forth food from the earth:15 wine that gladdens human hearts,oil to make their faces shine,and bread that sustains their hearts.16 The trees of the Lord are well watered,the cedars of Lebanon that he planted.17 There the birds make their nests;the stork has its home in the junipers.18 The high mountains belong to the wild goats;the crags are a refuge for the hyrax.19 He made the moon to mark the seasons,and the sun knows when to go down.20 You bring darkness, it becomes night,and all the beasts of the forest prowl.21 The lions roar for their preyand seek their food from God.22 The sun rises, and they steal away;they return and lie down in their dens.23 Then people go out to their work,to their labor until evening.24 How many are your works, Lord!In wisdom you made them all;the earth is full of your creatures.25 There is the sea, vast and spacious,teeming with creatures beyond number—living things both large and small.26 There the ships go to and fro,and Leviathan, which you formed to frolic there.27 All creatures look to youto give them their food at the proper time.28 When you give it to them,they gather it up;when you open your hand,they are satisfied with good things.29 When you hide your face,they are terrified;when you take away their breath,they die and return to the dust.30 When you send your Spirit,they are created,and you renew the face of the ground.31 May the glory of the Lord endure forever;may the Lord rejoice in his works—32 he who looks at the earth, and it trembles,who touches the mountains, and they smoke.33 I will sing to the Lord all my life;I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.34 May my meditation be pleasing to him,as I rejoice in the Lord.35 But may sinners vanish from the earthand the wicked be no more.Praise the Lord, my soul.Praise the Lord.[b] | |
| Psalm 115:15-16 | 15 May you be blessed by the Lord,the Maker of heaven and earth.16 The highest heavens belong to the Lord,but the earth he has given to mankind. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+115%3A15-16&version=NIV |
| Psalm 118:24 NIV | This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice today and be glad. | https://psalm.bible/psalm-118-24 |
| Psalm 118:27 | The Lord is God,and he has made his light shine on us. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+118%3A27&version=NIV |
| Psalm 119:73 | Your hands made me and formed me;give me understanding to learn your commands. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+119%3A73&version=NIV |
| Psalm 119:89-90 NIV | Your word, Lord, is eternal; it stands firm in the heavens. Your faithfulness continues through all generations; you established the earth, and it endures. | http://bible.com/111/psa.119.89-90.NIV |
| Psalm 121:1-2 NIV | I lift up my eyes to the mountains— where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord , the Maker of heaven and earth. | http://bible.com/111/psa.121.1-2.NIV |
| Psalm 133:3 | It is as if the dew of Hermonwere falling on Mount Zion.For there the Lord bestows his blessing,even life forevermore. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+133%3A3&version=NIV |
| Psalm 134:3 NIV | May the Lord bless you from Zion, he who is the Maker of heaven and earth. | https://psalm.bible/psalm-134-3 |
| Psalm 136:5-9 | who by his understanding made the heavens, His love endures forever. who spread out the earth upon the waters, His love endures forever. who made the great lights— His love endures forever. the sun to govern the day, His love endures forever. the moon and stars to govern the night; His love endures forever. | http://bible.com/111/psa.136.5-26.NIV |
| Psalm 139:13-16 | For you created my inmost being;you knit me together in my mother’s womb.14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;your works are wonderful,I know that full well.15 My frame was not hidden from youwhen I was made in the secret place,when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.16 Your eyes saw my unformed body;all the days ordained for me were written in your bookbefore one of them came to be. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+139%3A13-16&version=NIV |
| Psalm 145:8-11 | 8 The Lord is gracious and compassionate,slow to anger and rich in love.9 The Lord is good to all;he has compassion on all he has made.10 All your works praise you, Lord;your faithful people extol you.11 They tell of the glory of your kingdomand speak of your might,12 so that all people may know of your mighty actsand the glorious splendor of your kingdom. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+145%3A8-16&version=NIV |
| Psalm 145: 15-16 | 15 The eyes of all look to you,and you give them their food at the proper time.16 You open your handand satisfy the desires of every living thing17. The Lord is righteous in all His ways and loving towards all he has made. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+145%3A15-16&version=NIV |
| Psalm 146:6 NIV | He is the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them— he remains faithful forever. | https://psalm.bible/psalm-146-6 |
| Psalm 147:4-5 | He determines the number of the starsand calls them each by name.5 Great is our Lord and mighty in power;his understanding has no limit. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+147%3A4-5&version=NIV |
| Psalm 147:8-9 | He covers the sky with clouds;he supplies the earth with rainand makes grass grow on the hills.9 He provides food for the cattleand for the young ravens when they call. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+147%3A8-9&version=NIV |
| Psalm 148:1-13 NIV | Praise the Lord . Praise the Lord from the heavens; praise him in the heights above. Praise him, all his angels; praise him, all his heavenly hosts. Praise him, sun and moon; praise him, all you shining stars. Praise him, you highest heavens and you waters above the skies. Let them praise the name of the Lord , for at his command they were created, and he established them for ever and ever— he issued a decree that will never pass away. Praise the Lord from the earth, you great sea creatures and all ocean depths, lightning and hail, snow and clouds, stormy winds that do his bidding, you mountains and all hills, fruit trees and all cedars, wild animals and all cattle, small creatures and flying birds, kings of the earth and all nations, you princes and all rulers on earth, young men and women, old men and children. Let them praise the name of the Lord , for his name alone is exalted; his splendor is above the earth and the heavens. | http://bible.com/111/psa.148.1-13.NIV |
| Psalm 149:2 NIV | Let Israel rejoice in their Maker; let the people of Zion be glad in their King. | https://psalm.bible/psalm-149-2 |
| Proverbs 3:19-20 NIV | By wisdom the Lord laid the earth’s foundations, by understanding he set the heavens in place; by his knowledge the watery depths were divided, and the clouds let drop the dew. | http://bible.com/111/pro.3.19-20.NIV |
| Proverbs 8:22-31 | “The Lord brought me forth as the first of his works,[a][b]before his deeds of old;23 I was formed long ages ago,at the very beginning, when the world came to be.24 When there were no watery depths, I was given birth,when there were no springs overflowing with water;25 before the mountains were settled in place,before the hills, I was given birth,26 before he made the world or its fieldsor any of the dust of the earth.27 I was there when he set the heavens in place,when he marked out the horizon on the face of the deep,28 when he established the clouds aboveand fixed securely the fountains of the deep,29 when he gave the sea its boundaryso the waters would not overstep his command,and when he marked out the foundations of the earth.30 Then I was constantly[c] at his side.I was filled with delight day after day,rejoicing always in his presence,31 rejoicing in his whole worldand delighting in mankind. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+8%3A22-31&version=NIV |
| Proverbs 14:31 | Whoever oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker,but whoever is kind to the needy honors God. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+14%3A31&version=NIV |
| Proverbs 17:5 NIV | Whoever mocks the poor shows contempt for their Maker; whoever gloats over disaster will not go unpunished. | https://proverbs.bible/proverbs-17-5 |
| Proverbs 20:12 NIV | Ears that hear and eyes that see— the Lord has made them both. | http://bible.com/111/pro.20.12.NIV |
| Proverbs 22:2 NIV | Rich and poor have this in common: The Lord is the Maker of them all. | http://bible.com/111/pro.22.2.NIV |
| Ecclesiastes 3:11 NIV | He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. | http://bible.com/111/ecc.3.11.NIV |
| Ecclesiastes 3:14-15 NIV | I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear (revere) him. Whatever is has already been, and what will be has been before; and God will call the past to account. | http://bible.com/111/ecc.3.14-15.NIV |
| Ecclesiastes 7:29 | This only have I found:God created mankind upright,but they have gone in search of many schemes.” | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes+7%3A29&version=NIV |
| Ecclesiastes 8:15 | So I commend the enjoyment of life, because there is nothing better for a person under the sun than to eat and drink and be glad. Then joy will accompany them in their toil all the days of the life God has given them under the sun. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes+8%3A15&version=NIV |
| Ecclesiastes 9:9 | Enjoy life with your wife, whom you love, all the days of this meaningless life that God has given you under the sun—all your meaningless days. For this is your lot in life and in your toilsome labor under the sun. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes+9%3A9&version=NIV |
| Ecclesiastes 11:3-5 NIV[l | If clouds are full of water, they pour rain on the earth. Whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where it falls, there it will lie. Whoever watches the wind will not plant; whoever looks at the clouds will not reap. As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things. | http://bible.com/111/ecc.11.3-5.NIV |
| Ecclesiastes 12:1 NIV | Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come and the years approach when you will say, “I find no pleasure in them”— | http://bible.com/111/ecc.12.1.NIV |
| Ecclesiastes 12:7 | and the dust returns to the ground it came from,and the spirit returns to God who gave it. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes+12%3A7&version=NIV |
| Isaiah 17:7 NIV | In that day people will look to their Maker and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel. | http://bible.com/111/isa.17.7.NIV |
| Isaiah 27:11 NIV | When its twigs are dry, they are broken off and women come and make fires with them. For this is a people without understanding; so their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor. | http://bible.com/111/isa.27.11.NIV |
| Isaiah 40:12 | Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or with the breadth of his hand marked off the heavens? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on the scales and the hills in a balance? | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+40%3A12&version=NIV |
| Isaiah 40:21-22 | Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood since the earth was founded? He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in. | http://bible.com/111/isa.40.21-22.NIV |
| Isaiah 40:26-28 NIV | Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one and calls forth each of them by name. Because of his great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing. Why do you complain, Jacob? Why do you say, Israel, “My way is hidden from the Lord ; my cause is disregarded by my God”? Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. | http://bible.com/111/isa.40.26-28.NIV |
| Isaiah 41:17-20 | “The poor and needy search for water,but there is none;their tongues are parched with thirst.But I the Lord will answer them;I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.18 I will make rivers flow on barren heights,and springs within the valleys.I will turn the desert into pools of water,and the parched ground into springs.19 I will put in the desertthe cedar and the acacia, the myrtle and the olive.I will set junipers in the wasteland,the fir and the cypress together,20 so that people may see and know,may consider and understand,that the hand of the Lord has done this,that the Holy One of Israel has created it. | |
| Isaiah 42:5 NIV | This is what God the Lord says— the Creator of the heavens, who stretches them out, who spreads out the earth with all that springs from it, who gives breath to its people, and life to those who walk on it: | http://bible.com/111/isa.42.5.NIV |
| Isaiah 43:1 | But now, this is what the Lord says—he who created you, Jacob,he who formed you, Israel:“Do not fear, for I have redeemed you;I have summoned you by name; you are mine. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+43%3A1&version=NIV |
| Isaiah 43:7 | everyone who is called by my name,whom I created for my glory,whom I formed and made.” | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+43%3A7&version=NIV |
| Isaiah 43:15 | I am the Lord , your Holy One, Israel’s Creator, your King.” | http://bible.com/111/isa.43.15.NIV |
| Isaiah 43:19-21 | See, I am doing a new thing!Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?I am making a way in the wildernessand streams in the wasteland.20 The wild animals honor me,the jackals and the owls,because I provide water in the wildernessand streams in the wasteland,to give drink to my people, my chosen,21 the people I formed for myselfthat they may proclaim my praise. | |
| Isaiah 44:24 | “This is what the Lord says—your Redeemer, who formed you in the womb:I am the Lord,the Maker of all things,who stretches out the heavens,who spreads out the earth by myself, | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+44%3A24&version=NIV |
| Isaiah 45:6-8 | so that from the rising of the sunto the place of its settingpeople may know there is none besides me.I am the Lord, and there is no other.7 I form the light and create darkness,I bring prosperity and create disaster;I, the Lord, do all these things.8 “You heavens above, rain down my righteousness;let the clouds shower it down.Let the earth open wide,let salvation spring up,let righteousness flourish with it;I, the Lord, have created it. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+45%3A6-8&version=NIV |
| Isaiah 45:9 | “Woe to those who quarrel with their Maker,those who are nothing but potsherdsamong the potsherds on the ground.Does the clay say to the potter,‘What are you making?’Does your work say,‘The potter has no hands’? New International Version (NIV) | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+45%3A9&version=NIV |
| Isaiah 45:11-12 | “This is what the Lord says— the Holy One of Israel, and its Maker: Concerning things to come, do you question me about my children, or give me orders about the work of my hands? It is I who made the earth and created mankind on it. My own hands stretched out the heavens; I marshaled their starry hosts. | http://bible.com/111/isa.45.9-12.NIV |
| Isaiah 45:18 | For this is what the Lord says—he who created the heavens,he is God;he who fashioned and made the earth,he founded it;he did not create it to be empty,but formed it to be inhabited—he says:“I am the Lord,and there is no other. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+45%3A18&version=NIV |
| Isaiah 46:3-4 | “Listen to me, you descendants of Jacob,all the remnant of the people of Israel,you whom I have upheld since you were conceived,and have carried since you were born.4 Even to your old age and gray hairsI am he, I am he who will sustain you.I have made you and I will carry you;I will sustain you and I will rescue you. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+46%3A3-4&version=NIV |
| Isaiah 48:13 | My own hand laid the foundations of the earth,and my right hand spread out the heavens;when I summon them,they all stand up together. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+48%3A13&version=NIV |
| Isaiah 49:1 | Listen to me, you islands;hear this, you distant nations:Before I was born the Lord called me;from my mother’s womb he has spoken my name. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+49%3A1&version=NIV |
| Isaiah 49:5 | And now the Lord says—he who formed me in the womb to be his servantto bring Jacob back to himand gather Israel to himself,for I am[a] honored in the eyes of the Lordand my God has been my strength— | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+49%3A5&version=NIV |
| Isaiah 51:13 NIV | that you forget the Lord your Maker, who stretches out the heavens and who lays the foundations of the earth, that you live in constant terror every day because of the wrath of the oppressor, who is bent on destruction? For where is the wrath of the oppressor? | http://bible.com/111/isa.51.13.NIV |
| Isaiah 51:16b NIV | I who set the heavens in place, who laid the foundations of the earth, and who say to Zion, ‘You are my people.’ ” | http://bible.com/111/isa.51.16.NIV |
| Isaiah 54:5 NIV | For your Maker is your husband— the Lord Almighty is his name— the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; he is called the God of all the earth. | http://bible.com/111/isa.54.5.NIV |
| Isaiah 65:17-18 NIV | “See, I will createnew heavens and a new earth.The former things will not be remembered,nor will they come to mind.18 But be glad and rejoice foreverin what I will create,for I will create Jerusalem to be a delightand its people a joy. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+65%3A17-18&version=NIV |
| Isaiah 66:1-2 | This is what the Lord says:“Heaven is my throne,and the earth is my footstool.Where is the house you will build for me?Where will my resting place be?2 Has not my hand made all these things,and so they came into being?”declares the Lord.“These are the ones I look on with favor:those who are humble and contrite in spirit,and who tremble at my word | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+66%3A1-2&version=NIV |
| Isaiah 66:22 | “As the new heavens and the new earth that I make will endure before me,” declares the Lord, “so will your name and descendants endure. | https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1W0Y8UyDQRhi7Vme-3yHIdapBNuaO5Tdr6mUjf8tOLjQ/edit#gid=1094135246 |
| Jeremiah 1:4-5 NIV | The word of the Lord came to me, saying, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.” | http://bible.com/111/jer.1.4-5.NIV |
| Jeremiah 5:22-24 NIV | Should you not fear me?” declares the Lord . “Should you not tremble in my presence? I made the sand a boundary for the sea, an everlasting barrier it cannot cross. The waves may roll, but they cannot prevail; they may roar, but they cannot cross it. But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts; they have turned aside and gone away. They do not say to themselves, ‘Let us fear the Lord our God, who gives autumn and spring rains in season, who assures us of the regular weeks of harvest.’ | http://bible.com/111/jer.5.22-24.NIV |
| Jeremiah 8:7 | Even the stork in the skyknows her appointed seasons,and the dove, the swift and the thrushobserve the time of their migration.But my people do not knowthe requirements of the Lord. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah+8%3A7&version=NIV |
| Jeremiah 10: 11-13 | Tell them this: ‘These gods, who did not make the heavens and the earth, will perish from the earth and from under the heavens.’”[a]12 But God made the earth by his power;he founded the world by his wisdomand stretched out the heavens by his understanding.13 When he thunders, the waters in the heavens roar;he makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth.He sends lightning with the rainand brings out the wind from his storehouses. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah+10%3A11-13&version=NIV |
| Jeremiah 10:16 | He who is the Portion of Jacob is not like these,for he is the Maker of all things,including Israel, the people of his inheritance—the Lord Almighty is his name. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah+10%3A16&version=NIV |
| Jeremiah 27:5-6 NIV | With my great power and outstretched arm I made the earth and its people and the animals that are on it, and I give it to anyone I please. Now I will give all your countries into the hands of my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; I will make even the wild animals subject to him. | http://bible.com/111/jer.27.5-6.NIV |
| Jeremiah 31:35-37 NIV | This is what the Lord says, he who appoints the sun to shine by day, who decrees the moon and stars to shine by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar— the Lord Almighty is his name: “Only if these decrees vanish from my sight,” declares the Lord , “will Israel ever cease being a nation before me.” This is what the Lord says: “Only if the heavens above can be measured and the foundations of the earth below be searched out will I reject all the descendants of Israel because of all they have done,” declares the Lord . | http://bible.com/111/jer.31.35-37.NIV |
| Jeremiah 32:17 NIV | “Ah, Sovereign Lord , you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too hard for you. | http://bible.com/111/jer.32.17.NIV |
| Jeremiah 33:2-3 NIV | “This is what the Lord says, he who made the earth, the Lord who formed it and established it—the Lord is his name: ‘Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.’ | http://bible.com/111/jer.33.2-3.NIV |
| Jeremiah 38:16 NIV | But King Zedekiah swore this oath secretly to Jeremiah: “As surely as the Lord lives, who has given us breath, I will neither kill you nor hand you over to those who want to kill you.” | http://bible.com/111/jer.38.16.NIV |
| Jeremiah 51:15-16 NIV | “He made the earth by his power; he founded the world by his wisdom and stretched out the heavens by his understanding. When he thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; he makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth. He sends lightning with the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses. | http://bible.com/111/jer.51.15-16.NIV |
| Jeremiah 51:19 NIV | He who is the Portion of Jacob is not like these, for he is the Maker of all things, including the people of his inheritance— the Lord Almighty is his name. | http://bible.com/111/jer.51.19.NIV |
| Hosea 8:14 NIV | Israel has forgotten their Maker and built palaces; Judah has fortified many towns. But I will send fire on their cities that will consume their fortresses.” | https://bible.com/bible/111/hos.8.14.NIV |
| Amos 4:13 | He who forms the mountains,who creates the wind,and who reveals his thoughts to mankind,who turns dawn to darkness,and treads on the heights of the earth—the Lord God Almighty is his name. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=amos+4%3A13&version=NIV |
| Amos 5:8-9 NIV | He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns midnight into dawn and darkens day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out over the face of the land— the Lord is his name. With a blinding flash he destroys the stronghold and brings the fortified city to ruin. | https://bible.com/bible/111/amo.5.8-9.NIV |
| Amos 9:5-6 | The Lord, the Lord Almighty—he touches the earth and it melts,and all who live in it mourn;the whole land rises like the Nile,then sinks like the river of Egypt;6 he builds his lofty palace[a] in the heavensand sets its foundation[b] on the earth;he calls for the waters of the seaand pours them out over the face of the land—the Lord is his name. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=amos+9%3A5-6&version=NIV |
| Jonah 1:9 NIV | He answered, “I am a Hebrew and I worship the Lord , the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.” | https://bible.com/bible/111/jon.1.9.NIV |
| Zechariah 12:1 NIV | A prophecy: The word of the Lord concerning Israel. The Lord , who stretches out the heavens, who lays the foundation of the earth, and who forms the human spirit within a person, declares: | https://bible.com/bible/111/zec.12.1.NIV |
| Malachi 2:15 | Has not the one God made you? You belong to him in body and spirit. And what does the one God seek? Godly offspring.[a] So be on your guard, and do not be unfaithful to the wife of your youth. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=malachi+2%3A15&version=NIV |
| Matthew 3:9 | And do not think you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham. | https://matthew.bible/matthew-3-9 |
| Matthew 6:28-30 | And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew+6%3A28-30&version=NIV |
| Matthew 19:4 | “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew+19%3A4&version=NIV |
| Matthew 25:34 | “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew+25%3A34&version=NIV |
| Mark 10:6 | “But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’ | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=mark+10%3A6&version=NIV |
| Mark 13:19 | because those will be days of distress unequaled from the beginning, when God created the world, until now—and never to be equaled again. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=mark+13%3A19&version=NIV |
| John 1:3 | Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=john+1%3A3&version=NIV |
| John 1:9-10 | The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=john+1%3A9-10&version=NIV |
| John 17:5 | And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=john+17%3A5&version=NIV |
| John 17:24 | “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=john+17%3A24&version=NIV |
| Acts 3:15 | You killed the author of life, but God raised him from the dead. We are witnesses of this. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=acts+3%3A15&version=NIV |
| Acts 4:24 | When they heard this, they raised their voices together in prayer to God. “Sovereign Lord,” they said, “you made the heavens and the earth and the sea, and everything in them. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=acts+4%3A24&version=NIV |
| Acts 7:50 | Has not my hand made all these things?’ | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=acts+7%3A50&version=NIV |
| Acts 14:15 | “Friends, why are you doing this? We too are only human, like you. We are bringing you good news, telling you to turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heavens and the earth and the sea and everything in them. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=acts+14%3A15&version=NIV |
| Acts 17:24 | “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+17%3A24&version=NIV |
| Acts 17:25-26 | And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else. 26 From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+17%3A25-26&version=NIV |
| Acts 17:29 | “Therefore since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by human design and skill. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+17%3A29&version=NIV |
| Romans 1:20 | For 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, so that people are without excuse. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=romans+1%3A20&version=NIV |
| Romans 1:25 | They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=romans+1%3A25&version=NIV |
| Romans 2:14-15 | (Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law. 15 They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them.) | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=romans+2%3A14-15&version=NIV |
| Romans 8:18 | For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. 20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope 21 that[a] the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=romans+8%3A18&version=NIV |
| Romans 8:29 | For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=romans+8%3A29&version=NIV |
| Romans 8:39 | neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=romans+8%3A39&version=NIV |
| 1 Cor 8:5-6 | For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”), 6 yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+cor+8%3A5-6&version=NIV |
| 1 Cor 15:36-44 | How foolish! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. 37 When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something else. 38 But God gives it a body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body. 39 Not all flesh is the same: People have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another and fish another. 40 There are also heavenly bodies and there are earthly bodies; but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is one kind, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is another. 41 The sun has one kind of splendor, the moon another and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor. 42 So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; 43 it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; 44 it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+cor+15%3A36-44&version=NIV |
| 1 Cor 15:47-49 | The first man was of the dust of the earth; the second man is of heaven. 48 As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are of heaven. 49 And just as we have borne the image of the earthly man, so shall we[a] bear the image of the heavenly man. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Cor+15%3A47-49&version=NIV |
| 2 Cor 4:6 | For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,”[a] made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Cor+4%3A6&version=NIV |
| 2 Cor 5:1 | For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Cor+5%3A1&version=NIV |
| 2 Cor 5:5 | Now the one who has fashioned us for this very purpose is God, who has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Cor+5%3A5&version=NIV |
| 2 Cor 9:10 | Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Cor+9%3A10&version=NIV |
| Eph 1:4 | For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians+1%3A4&version=NIV |
| Eph 2:10 | For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians+2%3A10&version=NIV |
| Col 1:15-17 | The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. 17 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Colossians+1%3A15-17&version=NIV |
| Col 1:23 | if you continue in your faith, established and firm, and do not move from the hope held out in the gospel. This is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven,(or to all creation) and of which I, Paul, have become a servant. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Colossians+1%3A23&version=NIV |
| Col 3:10 | and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Colossians+3%3A10&version=NIV |
| 1 Timothy 4:4-5 NIV | For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, because it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer. | https://bible.com/bible/111/1ti.4.4-5.NIV |
| Hebrews 1:2 | but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom also he made the universe. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=hebrews+1%3A2&version=NIV |
| Hebrews 1:10-12 | “In the beginning, Lord, you laid the foundations of the earth,and the heavens are the work of your hands.11 They will perish, but you remain;they will all wear out like a garment.12 You will roll them up like a robe;like a garment they will be changed.But you remain the same,and your years will never end.”[a] | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=hebrews+1%3A10-12&version=NIV |
| Hebrews 2:6-8 | But there is a place where someone has testified: “What is mankind that you are mindful of them,a son of man that you care for him?7 You made them a little[a] lower than the angels;you crowned them with glory and honor8 and put everything under their feet.”[b][c] In putting everything under them,[d] God left nothing that is not subject to them.[e] Yet at present we do not see everything subject to them.[f] | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=hebrews+2%3A6-8&version=NIV |
| Hebrews 3:4 | For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=hebrews+3%3A4&version=NIV |
| Hebrews 4:3 | Now we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said, “So I declared on oath in my anger,‘They shall never enter my rest.’”[a] And yet his works have been finished since the creation of the world. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=hebrews+4%3A3&version=NIV |
| Hebrew 4:13 | Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=hebrews+4%3A13&version=NIV |
| Hebrews 8:10 | This is the covenant I will establish with the people of Israelafter that time, declares the Lord.I will put my laws in their mindsand write them on their hearts.I will be their God,and they will be my people. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=hebrews+8%3A10&version=NIV |
| Hebrews 9:26 | Otherwise Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world. But he has appeared once for all at the culmination of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=hebrews+9%3A26&version=NIV |
| Hebrews 11:3 | By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews+11%3A3&version=NIV |
| Hebrews 12:25-27 | See to it that you do not refuse him who speaks. If they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, how much less will we, if we turn away from him who warns us from heaven? 26 At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “Once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.”[a] 27 The words “once more” indicate the removing of what can be shaken—that is, created things—so that what cannot be shaken may remain. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews+12%3A25-27&version=NIV |
| James 1:17 | Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=James+1%3A17&version=NIV |
| 1 Peter 4:19 | So then, those who suffer according to God’s will should commit themselves to their faithful Creator and continue to do good. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Peter+4%3A19&version=NIV |
| 2 Peter 3:4 | They will say, “Where is this ‘coming’ he promised? Ever since our ancestors died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.” | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Peter+3%3A4&version=NIV |
| 2 Peter 3:5-7 | But they deliberately forget that long ago by God’s word the heavens came into being and the earth was formed out of water and by water. 6 By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed. 7 By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Peter+3%3A5-7&version=NIV |
| Rev 3:14 | “To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God’s creation. | https://revelation.bible/revelation-3-14 |
| Rev 4:11 | “You are worthy, our Lord and God,to receive glory and honor and power,for you created all things,and by your will they were createdand have their being.” | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+4%3A11&version=NIV |
| Rev 13:8 | All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written in the Lamb’s book of life, the Lamb who was slain from the creation of the world.[a] | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+13%3A8&version=NIV |
| Rev 14:7 | He said in a loud voice, “Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made the heavens, the earth, the sea and the springs of water.” | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+14%3A7&version=NIV |
| Rev 17:8 | The beast, which you saw, once was, now is not, and yet will come up out of the Abyss and go to its destruction. The inhabitants of the earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the creation of the world will be astonished when they see the beast, because it once was, now is not, and yet will come. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+17%3A8&version=NIV |
| Rev 21:1 | Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,”[a] for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+21%3A1&version=NIV |
