Likeness

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in His own likeness.

When Adam was 130 years old, he had a son in his own likeness, after his own image; and he named him Seth.

…that you do not act corruptly and make an idol for yourselves of any form or shape, whether in the likeness of a male or female,

The woodworker extends a measuring line; he marks it out with a stylus; he shapes it with chisels and outlines it with a compass. He fashions it in the likeness of man, like man in all his glory, that it may dwell in a shrine.

Just as many were appalled at Him—His appearance was disfigured beyond that of any man, and His form was marred beyond human likeness—

The workmanship of the wheels looked like the gleam of beryl, and all four had the same likeness. Their workmanship looked like a wheel within a wheel.

Spread out above the heads of the living creatures was the likeness of an awesome expanse, gleaming like crystal.

Above the expanse over their heads was the likeness of a throne with the appearance of sapphire, and on the throne high above was a figure like that of a man.

The appearance of the brilliant light all around Him was like that of a rainbow in a cloud on a rainy day. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell facedown and heard a voice speaking.

And I looked and saw above the expanse, above the heads of the cherubim, the likeness of a throne of sapphire.

And suddenly one with the likeness of a man touched my lips, and I opened my mouth and said to the one standing before me, “My lord, because of the vision, I am overcome with anguish, and I have no strength.

Again the one with the likeness of a man touched me and strengthened me.

For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh,

And just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so also shall we bear the likeness of the heavenly man.

And just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so also shall we bear the likeness of the heavenly man.

…but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in human likeness.

With the tongue we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God’s likeness.