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Genesis 1:1 NIV - In the Beginning God Created the Heavens and the Earth.
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Genesis 1:26-31 – Genesis 2:1-4 NIV – God Creates Man…
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26-Gen.1.27" class="scriptRef">Genesis 1:26-27 NIV - 26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” 27 So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
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Psalm 139:14-18 NIV - I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. 17 How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them! 18 Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand…
Psalm 8 NIV - LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory in the heavens. 2 Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger. 3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, 4 what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them? 5 You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor. 6 You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet: 7 all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild, 8 the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas. 9 LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
10" class="scriptRef">Ephesians 2:10 NLT - 10 For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, (Relationship… Restored to God in Christ) so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.
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28-Gen.1.31" class="scriptRef">Genesis 1:28-31 NIV - 28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.” 29 Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so.31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
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Matthew 4:19 CSB – Jesus said, “Follow me, and I will make you fish for people.”
Matthew 28:18-20 NLT – I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth. Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
17-2Cor.5.20" class="scriptRef">2 Corinthians 5:17-20 NIV - 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20 We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.
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Genesis 2:1-3 NIV – Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.2 By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. 3 Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.
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Matthew 11:28-30 CSB – “Come to me, all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I lowly (gentle) and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls”
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Matthew 6:33 NCV - 33 Seek first God’s kingdom and what God wants. Then all your other needs will be met as well.
John 6:27 NCV - 27 Don’t work for the food that spoils. Work for the food that stays good always and gives eternal life. The Son of Man will give you this food, because on him God the Father has put his power.”
Matthew 5:6 NIV - Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
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4" class="scriptRef">Genesis 2:4 NIV - 4 This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, when the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.