The Best Bible Verses in Genesis (ESV)

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Genesis

•   Genesis 1:1,26 “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth…Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, after our likeness’”

•   Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them

•   Gen1:31 "God saw everything that he had made, &behold, it was very good.”

•   Genesis 2:2 on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, & he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done.

•   Genesis 2:23 “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.”

•   Genesis 2:24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

•   Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more crafty… He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?”

•   Genesis 4:7 And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is contrary to you, but you must rule over it.

•   Genesis 5:24 Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.

•   Genesis 6:5–6 The LORD saw...the wickedness of man...and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

•   Genesis 6:9,22 Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God…he did all that God commanded him.

•   Gen9:11,13 "never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth...I have set my bow in the cloud, & it shall be a sign of the covenant"

•   Genesis 11:4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city &a tower with its top in the heavens, &let us make a name for ourselves”

•   Genesis 12:2 I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

•   Genesis 12:1–4 the LORD said to Abram, 'Go from your country...to the land that I will show you.' So Abram went, as the LORD had told him

•   Genesis 14:18–20 Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread &wine...&said, 'Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Possessor of heaven &earth’

•   Genesis 15:6 And he [Abram/Abraham] believed the LORD, and he counted it to him as righteousness.

•   Gen18:14 Is anything too hard for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you, about this time next year, &Sarah shall have a son.

•   Genesis 21:1,22:1 The LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did to Sarah as he had promised…After these things God tested Abraham

•   Genesis 22:12 “ I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”

•   Genesis 27:41 Now Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him

•   Gen31:5-9 “but the God of my father has been with me…God did not permit him to harm me…God has …given them to me.”

•   Genesis 32:10-11 I am not worthy of the least of all the deeds of steadfast love & all the faithfulness that you have shown to your servant

•   Genesis 39:9 “How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?”

•   Genesis 45:8 "So it was not you who sent me here, but God"

•   Genesis 49:24–25 by the hands of the Mighty One...the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel...the God of your father...the Almighty

•   Genesis 50:20 As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive