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Bible verses about creation
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Some of the best poetry in the Bible is about the natural world: Psalm 104's catalogue of animals and weather, the closing chapters of Job, Isaiah on mountains and trees.
This page is about those passages as writing about the world. Questions about origins are a separate discussion, held with real intensity across traditions, and a verse list is not the place for it.
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In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork. 2Day after day they pour out speech, and night after night they display knowledge. 3There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard. 4Their voice has gone out through all the earth, their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,
LORD, how many are your works! In wisdom, you have made them all. The earth is full of your riches.
3When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained, 4what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him?
4“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding. 5Who determined its measures, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it? 6What were its foundations fastened on? Or who laid its cornerstone, 7when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their army by number. He calls them all by name. By the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, not one is lacking.
God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.
16For by him all things were created in the heavens and on the earth, visible things and invisible things, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things have been created through him and for him. 17He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.
For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity, that they may be without excuse.
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