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What does the Bible say about image?

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The Bible teaches that human beings are created in God’s image, yet that image is marred by sin and is being renewed in believers through union with Christ. Genesis 1:26-27 grounds human dignity, calling, and the equal worth of men and women in God’s creative purpose. Sin distorts our worship and character, but God’s saving grace conforms His people to the image of His Son, Jesus Christ, as Romans 8:29 teaches. Through beholding the Lord, believers are progressively transformed by the Spirit, according to 2 Corinthians 3:18. Colossians 3:10 and Ephesians 4:24 describe this renewal as putting on the new self in true righteousness and holiness, until God’s people see Him and are satisfied in His likeness.

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  • Genesis 1:27 15 votes

    God created man in his own image. In God's image he created him; male and female he created them.

  • Genesis 1:26 7 votes

    God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."

  • Genesis 1:26-27 7 votes

    [26] God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." [27] God created man in his own image. In God's image he created him; male and female he created them.

  • 2 Corinthians 3:18 6 votes

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

  • Colossians 3:10 6 votes

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

  • Ephesians 4:24 5 votes

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

  • Psalms 17:15 5 votes

    As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.

  • Philippians 2:3 5 votes

    doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

  • Romans 8:29 5 votes

    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.

  • 2 Timothy 3:2 4 votes

    For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

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