What does the Bible say about image of god?
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The Bible teaches that God created human beings in his image, granting every person unique dignity, moral responsibility, and a calling to represent him in the world. Genesis 1:26-27 declares that both male and female bear this image, while Genesis 9:6 grounds the sanctity of human life in it. Though sin has distorted our minds, desires, and conduct, it has not erased this God-given dignity. Jesus Christ is the perfect image of the invisible God and the exact imprint of the Father’s nature, as Colossians 1:15 and Hebrews 1:3 proclaim. Through union with Christ, believers are renewed in true knowledge, righteousness, and holiness, being progressively transformed into his likeness (Colossians 3:10; 2 Corinthians 3:18).
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- Genesis 1:27
God created man in his own image. In God's image he created him; male and female he created them.
- Genesis 1:26-27
[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.
- Genesis 9:6
Whoever sheds man's blood, by man will his blood be shed, for in the image of God made he man.
- Genesis 1:26
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."
- Colossians 3:10
and have put on the new man, that is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,
- Hebrews 1:3
His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself made purification for our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
- 2 Corinthians 4:4
in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.
- 1 Corinthians 11:7
For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man.
- 2 Corinthians 3:18
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 1:15
who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
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