Bible Verses About Roles in Creation

For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:

Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:

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

And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Let them praise the name of the Lord: for he commanded, and they were created.

But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.

And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

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

For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.

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

I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.

Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.

Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.

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

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.

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

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 let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

Whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places.

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands:

He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;

Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.

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

And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

Thus saith God the Lord, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:

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

And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, thou art God, which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is:

Who hath given him a charge over the earth? or who hath disposed the whole world?

Thus saith the Lord the maker thereof, the Lord that formed it, to establish it; the Lord is his name;

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord; and there is none else.

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.