Bible Verses About Origins

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

The same was in the beginning with God.

And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;

And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands:

And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

And the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.

For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:

Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands.

And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,

All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.

Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.

And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the Lord.

And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

And 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 fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the Lord, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

For Adam was first formed, then Eve.

These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,

And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.

And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.

I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.

I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.

I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me.

And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.

Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the Lord, the first, and with the last; I am he.