God: Creator

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. …

And God looked upon all that He had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.

Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. …

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

Male and female He created them, and He blessed them. And in the day they were created, He called them “man.”

Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.

For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them, but on the seventh day He rested. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy.

He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap. He seats them among princes and bestows on them a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the LORD’s, and upon them He has set the world.

And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD: “O LORD, God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth.

For all the gods of the nations are idols, but it is the LORD who made the heavens.

You alone are the LORD. You created the heavens, the highest heavens with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to all things, and the host of heaven worships You.

He alone stretches out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea.

He is the Maker of the Bear and Orion, of the Pleiades and the constellations of the south.

Does it please You to oppress me, to reject the work of Your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked?

Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me?

But ask the animals, and they will instruct you; ask the birds of the air, and they will tell you. …

He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing. …

But God understands its way, and He knows its place. …

Do you understand how the clouds float, those wonders of Him who is perfect in knowledge?

…can you, like Him, spread out the skies, as strong as a mirror of bronze?

Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding. …

When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place—

For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands.

…their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens He has pitched a tent for the sun.

A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD’s, and the fullness thereof, the world and all who dwell therein.

For He has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the waters.

By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, and all the stars by the breath of His mouth.

He piles up the waters of the sea; He puts the depths into storehouses.

For He spoke, and it came to be; He commanded, and it stood firm.

You formed the mountains by Your power, having girded Yourself with might.

The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the moon and the sun.

You set all the boundaries of the earth; You made the summer and winter.

He built His sanctuary like the heights, like the earth He has established forever.

The heavens are Yours, and also the earth. The earth and its fullness You founded.

North and south You created; Tabor and Hermon shout for joy at Your name.

Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!

Before the mountains were born or You brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting You are God.

In His hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to Him.

The sea is His, for He made it, and His hands formed the dry land.

For all the gods of the nations are idols, but it is the LORD who made the heavens.

In the beginning You laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands.

Bless the LORD, all His works in all places of His dominion. Bless the LORD, O my soul!

He wraps Himself in light as with a garment; He stretches out the heavens like a tent,

…laying the beams of His chambers in the waters above, making the clouds His chariot, walking on the wings of the wind.

He set the earth on its foundations, never to be moved.

You covered it with the deep like a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.

How many are Your works, O LORD! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your creatures.

When You send Your Spirit, they are created, and You renew the face of the earth.

May the glory of the LORD endure forever; may the LORD rejoice in His works.

Your faithfulness continues through all generations; You established the earth, and it endures.

Your ordinances stand to this day, for all things are servants to You.

My help comes from the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.

Our help is in the name of the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.

By His insight He made the heavens. His loving devotion endures forever. …

Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God,

…the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them. He remains faithful forever.

Let them praise the name of the LORD, for He gave the command and they were created.

He established them forever and ever; He issued a decree that will never pass away.

The LORD founded the earth by wisdom and established the heavens by understanding.

…before He made the land or fields, or any of the dust of the earth. …

The LORD has made everything for His purpose—even the wicked for the day of disaster.

The rich and the poor have this in common: The LORD is Maker of them all.

Like an archer who wounds at random is he who hires a fool or passerby.

Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in His hands? Who has bound up the waters in His cloak? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is His name, and what is the name of His Son—surely you know!

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men, yet they cannot fathom the work that God has done from beginning to end.

Only this have I found: I have discovered that God made mankind upright, but they have sought out many schemes.”

As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones are formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.

In that day men will look to their Maker and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.

“O LORD of Hosts, God of Israel, enthroned above the cherubim, You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth.

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on a scale and the hills with a balance?

Lift up your eyes on high: Who created all these? He leads forth the starry host by number; He calls each one by name. Because of His great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.

Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary; His understanding is beyond searching out.

This is what God the LORD says—He who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its offspring, who gives breath to the people on it and life to those who walk in it:

Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer who formed you from the womb: “I am the LORD, who has made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who by Myself spread out the earth,

I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.

It is I who made the earth and created man upon it. It was My hands that stretched out the heavens, and I ordained all their host.

For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens—He is God; He formed the earth and fashioned it; He established it; He did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited: “I am the LORD, and there is no other.

Surely My own hand founded the earth, and My right hand spread out the heavens; when I summon them, they stand up together.

But you have forgotten the LORD, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth. You live in terror all day long because of the fury of the oppressor who is bent on destruction. But where is the fury of the oppressor?

I have put My words in your mouth, and covered you with the shadow of My hand, to establish the heavens, to found the earth, and to say to Zion, ‘You are My people.’”

Has not My hand made all these things? And so they came into being,” declares the LORD. “This is the one I will esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, who trembles at My word.

Do you not fear Me?” declares the LORD. “Do you not tremble before Me, the One who set the sand as the boundary for the sea, an enduring barrier it cannot cross? The waves surge, but they cannot prevail. They roar but cannot cross it.

The LORD made the earth by His power; He established the world by His wisdom and stretched out the heavens by His understanding.

When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.

The Portion of Jacob is not like these, for He is the Maker of all things, and Israel is the tribe of His inheritance—the LORD of Hosts is His name.

By My great power and outstretched arm, I made the earth and the men and beasts on the face of it, and I give it to whom I please.

Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day, who sets in order the moon and stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the LORD of Hosts is His name:

“Oh, Lord GOD! You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too difficult for You!

“Thus says the LORD who made the earth, the LORD who formed it and established it, the LORD is His name:

The LORD made the earth by His power; He established the world by His wisdom and stretched out the heavens by His understanding.

When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.

The Portion of Jacob is not like these, for He is the Maker of all things, and of the tribe of His inheritance—the LORD of Hosts is His name.

For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man, who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth—the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name.”

He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn and darkens day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth—the LORD is His name—

He builds His upper rooms in the heavens and founds His vault upon the earth. He summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth. The LORD is His name.

“I am a Hebrew,” replied Jonah. “I worship the LORD, the God of the heavens, who made the sea and the dry land.”

This is the burden of the word of the LORD concerning Israel. Thus declares the LORD, who stretches out the heavens and lays the foundation of the earth, who forms the spirit of man within him:

However, from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’

For those will be days of tribulation unseen from the beginning of God’s creation until now, and never to be seen again.

When the believers heard this, they lifted up their voices to God with one accord. “Sovereign Lord,” they said, “You made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them.

Has not My hand made all these things?’

“Men, why are you doing this? We too are only men, human like you. We are bringing you good news that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made heaven and earth and sea and everything in them.

The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples made by human hands. …

For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from His workmanship, so that men are without excuse.

For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever! Amen.

…yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we exist. And there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we exist.

For just as woman came from man, so also man is born of woman. But everything comes from God.

For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

And it is God who has prepared us for this very purpose and has given us the Spirit as a pledge of what is to come.

All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:

…and to illuminate for everyone the stewardship of this mystery, which for ages past was kept hidden in God, who created all things.

I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who made the good confession in His testimony before Pontius Pilate:

On many past occasions and in many different ways, God spoke to our fathers through the prophets.

But in these last days He has spoken to us by His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, and through whom He made the universe.

In bringing many sons to glory, it was fitting for God, for whom and through whom all things exist, to make the author of their salvation perfect through suffering.

And every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.

By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.

“Worthy are You, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for You created all things; by Your will they exist and were created.”

And he swore by Him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and everything in it, the earth and everything in it, and the sea and everything in it: “There will be no more delay!

And he said in a loud voice, “Fear God and give Him glory, because the hour of His judgment has come. Worship the One who made the heavens and the earth and the sea and the springs of waters.”