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What does the Bible say about jesus as image of god?

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The Bible teaches that Jesus Christ is the perfect and eternal revelation of God, truly divine and the visible image of the invisible God. Colossians 1:15-17 declares that all things were created through Him and for Him, while Hebrews 1:3 calls Him the radiance of God’s glory and the exact imprint of His nature. John 1:1 and John 1:18 affirm that the eternal Word is God and makes the Father known. Therefore, to see Jesus rightly is to see the Father’s character, holiness, mercy, and saving purpose, as Jesus says in John 14:9. In Him, God graciously reveals Himself and redeems sinners through the Son He sent into the world.

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  • Colossians 1:15-17

    [15] who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. [16] For by him were all things created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him. [17] He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.

  • 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.

  • John 1:18

    No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.

  • John 5:19

    Jesus therefore answered them, "Most assuredly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise.

  • John 10:30

    I and the Father are one."

  • John 14:9

    Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, 'Show us the Father?'

  • John 8:28

    Jesus therefore said to them, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things.

  • John 3:16-17

    [16] For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. [17] For God didn't send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

  • John 1:1

    In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

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