What Does the Bible Say About Universe? (2024)

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Hebrews 11:3ESV / 357 helpful votes Genesis 1:1-31ESV / 317 helpful votes Isaiah 40:22ESV / 225 helpful votes Psalm 19:1ESV / 205 helpful votes Psalm 8:3-4ESV / 196 helpful votes John 1:3ESV / 194 helpful votes Job 26:7ESV / 188 helpful votes Isaiah 40:26ESV / 153 helpful votes Psalm 147:4ESV / 142 helpful votes Hebrews 1:3ESV / 135 helpful votes Genesis 1:14ESV / 120 helpful votes Psalm 33:6ESV / 117 helpful votes Genesis 1:1ESV / 115 helpful votes Job 26:10ESV / 107 helpful votes Genesis 1:2ESV / 107 helpful votes Genesis 1:26ESV / 105 helpful votes Jeremiah 33:25ESV / 93 helpful votes 2 Peter 3:10ESV / 83 helpful votes 2 Peter 3:7ESV / 83 helpful votes Psalm 90:4ESV / 83 helpful votes Romans 1:20ESV / 81 helpful votes Isaiah 4:5ESV / 80 helpful votes Isaiah 44:24ESV / 75 helpful votes Isaiah 45:12ESV / 73 helpful votes Jeremiah 10:12ESV / 65 helpful votes Revelation 4:11ESV / 64 helpful votes Isaiah 42:5ESV / 62 helpful votes Psalm 104:5ESV / 61 helpful votes John 1:1-3ESV / 57 helpful votes Psalm 104:2ESV / 52 helpful votes 2 Peter 3:5ESV / 51 helpful votes Isaiah 45:18ESV / 50 helpful votes Job 37:18ESV / 50 helpful votes Genesis 1:3ESV / 50 helpful votes Genesis 22:17ESV / 46 helpful votes 2 Peter 3:13ESV / 45 helpful votes Matthew 24:29ESV / 43 helpful votes Exodus 20:11ESV / 43 helpful votes Psalm 8:3ESV / 42 helpful votes Job 38:4-6ESV / 42 helpful votes Colossians 1:15-17ESV / 39 helpful votes John 3:16-17ESV / 39 helpful votes Isaiah 46:10ESV / 39 helpful votes Colossians 1:17ESV / 38 helpful votes Isaiah 41:10ESV / 38 helpful votes Colossians 1:16-17ESV / 37 helpful votes Genesis 1:10ESV / 37 helpful votes Genesis 1:1-2:25ESV / 37 helpful votes Psalm 115:16ESV / 36 helpful votes Genesis 2:2ESV / 36 helpful votes Genesis 1:7ESV / 36 helpful votes Isaiah 40:28ESV / 35 helpful votes Job 9:8ESV / 35 helpful votes Genesis 1:1-2ESV / 35 helpful votes Revelation 1:1-20ESV / 34 helpful votes Hebrews 1:2-3ESV / 32 helpful votes Isaiah 65:17ESV / 31 helpful votes Revelation 1:1ESV / 30 helpful votes Colossians 1:16ESV / 30 helpful votes Luke 1:37ESV / 30 helpful votes Isaiah 37:16ESV / 30 helpful votes 2 Peter 3:9ESV / 29 helpful votes Romans 8:19-22ESV / 29 helpful votes Psalm 104:1-35ESV / 29 helpful votes Psalm 33:9ESV / 29 helpful votes John 3:16ESV / 28 helpful votes Jeremiah 32:17ESV / 28 helpful votes Isaiah 40:31ESV / 28 helpful votes Psalm 104:30ESV / 28 helpful votes Psalm 102:25ESV / 28 helpful votes Genesis 1:4ESV / 28 helpful votes Ephesians 4:10ESV / 27 helpful votes 2 Corinthians 5:17ESV / 27 helpful votes Jeremiah 4:23ESV / 26 helpful votes Psalm 96:10ESV / 26 helpful votes 1 Chronicles 16:30ESV / 26 helpful votes Genesis 1:5ESV / 26 helpful votes John 1:1ESV / 25 helpful votes Job 38:7ESV / 25 helpful votes 2 Samuel 22:16ESV / 25 helpful votes Hebrews 11:1ESV / 24 helpful votes John 17:24ESV / 24 helpful votes Jeremiah 29:11ESV / 24 helpful votes Genesis 1:27ESV / 24 helpful votes Isaiah 48:13ESV / 23 helpful votes Colossians 1:2ESV / 22 helpful votes Matthew 5:18ESV / 22 helpful votes 1 Corinthians 8:6ESV / 21 helpful votes Jeremiah 51:15ESV / 21 helpful votes Psalm 104:3ESV / 21 helpful votes Genesis 1:31ESV / 21 helpful votes Hebrews 1:2ESV / 20 helpful votes Matthew 19:26ESV / 20 helpful votes Zechariah 12:1ESV / 20 helpful votes Psalm 75:3ESV / 20 helpful votes Nehemiah 9:6ESV / 19 helpful votes Genesis 1:3-2:3ESV / 19 helpful votes Revelation 7:1ESV / 18 helpful votes Joshua 1:9ESV / 18 helpful votes Revelation 20:8ESV / 17 helpful votes

Hebrews 11:3ESV / 357 helpful votes

By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.

Genesis 1:1-31ESV / 317 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. ...

Isaiah 40:22ESV / 225 helpful votes

It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in;

Psalm 19:1ESV / 205 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.

Psalm 8:3-4ESV / 196 helpful votes

When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?

John 1:3ESV / 194 helpful votes

All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.

Job 26:7ESV / 188 helpful votes

He stretches out the north over the void and hangs the earth on nothing.

Isaiah 40:26ESV / 153 helpful votes

Lift up your eyes on high and see: who created these? He who brings out their host by number, calling them all by name; by the greatness of his might and because he is strong in power, not one is missing.

Psalm 147:4ESV / 142 helpful votes

He determines the number of the stars; he gives to all of them their names.

Hebrews 1:3ESV / 135 helpful votes

He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

Genesis 1:14ESV / 120 helpful votes

And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years,

Psalm 33:6ESV / 117 helpful votes

By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and by the breath of his mouth all their host.

Genesis 1:1ESV / 115 helpful votes

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

Job 26:10ESV / 107 helpful votes

He has inscribed a circle on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.

Genesis 1:2ESV / 107 helpful votes

The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

Genesis 1:26ESV / 105 helpful votes

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Jeremiah 33:25ESV / 93 helpful votes

Thus says the Lord: If I have not established my covenant with day and night and the fixed order of heaven and earth,

2 Peter 3:10ESV / 83 helpful votes

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.

2 Peter 3:7ESV / 83 helpful votes

But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.

Psalm 90:4ESV / 83 helpful votes

For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night.

Romans 1:20ESV / 81 helpful votes

For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.

Isaiah 4:5ESV / 80 helpful votes

Then the Lord will create over the whole site of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud by day, and smoke and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory there will be a canopy.

Isaiah 44:24ESV / 75 helpful votes

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

Isaiah 45:12ESV / 73 helpful votes

I made the earth and created man on it; it was my hands that stretched out the heavens, and I commanded all their host.

Revelation 4:11ESV / 64 helpful votes

“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.”

Isaiah 42:5ESV / 62 helpful votes

Thus says God, the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it:

Psalm 104:5ESV / 61 helpful votes

He set the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be moved.

John 1:1-3ESV / 57 helpful votes

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.

Psalm 104:2ESV / 52 helpful votes

Covering yourself with light as with a garment, stretching out the heavens like a tent.

2 Peter 3:5ESV / 51 helpful votes

For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God,

Isaiah 45:18ESV / 50 helpful votes

For thus says the Lord, who created the heavens (he is God!), who formed the earth and made it (he established it; he did not create it empty, he formed it to be inhabited!): “I am the Lord, and there is no other.

Job 37:18ESV / 50 helpful votes

Can you, like him, spread out the skies, hard as a cast metal mirror?

Genesis 1:3ESV / 50 helpful votes

And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

Genesis 22:17ESV / 46 helpful votes

I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of his enemies,

2 Peter 3:13ESV / 45 helpful votes

But according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.

Matthew 24:29ESV / 43 helpful votes

“Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

Exodus 20:11ESV / 43 helpful votes

For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

Psalm 8:3ESV / 42 helpful votes

When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,

Job 38:4-6ESV / 42 helpful votes

“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding. Who determined its measurements—surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone,

Colossians 1:15-17ESV / 39 helpful votes

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

John 3:16-17ESV / 39 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Isaiah 46:10ESV / 39 helpful votes

Declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,’

Colossians 1:17ESV / 38 helpful votes

And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

Isaiah 41:10ESV / 38 helpful votes

Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

Colossians 1:16-17ESV / 37 helpful votes

For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

Genesis 1:10ESV / 37 helpful votes

God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:1-2:25ESV / 37 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. ...

Psalm 115:16ESV / 36 helpful votes

The heavens are the Lord's heavens, but the earth he has given to the children of man.

Genesis 2:2ESV / 36 helpful votes

And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done.

Genesis 1:7ESV / 36 helpful votes

And God made the expanse and separated the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse. And it was so.

Isaiah 40:28ESV / 35 helpful votes

Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.

Job 9:8ESV / 35 helpful votes

Who alone stretched out the heavens and trampled the waves of the sea;

Genesis 1:1-2ESV / 35 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

Revelation 1:1-20ESV / 34 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

Hebrews 1:2-3ESV / 32 helpful votes

But in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

Isaiah 65:17ESV / 31 helpful votes

“For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind.

Revelation 1:1ESV / 30 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Colossians 1:16ESV / 30 helpful votes

For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.

Luke 1:37ESV / 30 helpful votes

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Isaiah 37:16ESV / 30 helpful votes

“O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, enthroned above the cherubim, you are the God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.

2 Peter 3:9ESV / 29 helpful votes

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

Romans 8:19-22ESV / 29 helpful votes

For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now.

Psalm 104:1-35ESV / 29 helpful votes

Bless the Lord, O my soul! O Lord my God, you are very great! You are clothed with splendor and majesty, covering yourself with light as with a garment, stretching out the heavens like a tent. He lays the beams of his chambers on the waters; he makes the clouds his chariot; he rides on the wings of the wind; he makes his messengers winds, his ministers a flaming fire. He set the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be moved. ...

Psalm 33:9ESV / 29 helpful votes

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

John 3:16ESV / 28 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Jeremiah 32:17ESV / 28 helpful votes

‘Ah, Lord God! It is you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you.

Isaiah 40:31ESV / 28 helpful votes

But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

Psalm 104:30ESV / 28 helpful votes

When you send forth your Spirit, they are created, and you renew the face of the ground.

Psalm 102:25ESV / 28 helpful votes

Of old you laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands.

Genesis 1:4ESV / 28 helpful votes

And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness.

Ephesians 4:10ESV / 27 helpful votes

He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.)

2 Corinthians 5:17ESV / 27 helpful votes

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Jeremiah 4:23ESV / 26 helpful votes

I looked on the earth, and behold, it was without form and void; and to the heavens, and they had no light.

Psalm 96:10ESV / 26 helpful votes

Say among the nations, “The Lord reigns! Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved; he will judge the peoples with equity.”

1 Chronicles 16:30ESV / 26 helpful votes

Tremble before him, all the earth; yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved.

Genesis 1:5ESV / 26 helpful votes

God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

John 1:1ESV / 25 helpful votes

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Job 38:7ESV / 25 helpful votes

When the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

2 Samuel 22:16ESV / 25 helpful votes

Then the channels of the sea were seen; the foundations of the world were laid bare, at the rebuke of the Lord, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

Hebrews 11:1ESV / 24 helpful votes

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

John 17:24ESV / 24 helpful votes

Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.

Jeremiah 29:11ESV / 24 helpful votes

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Genesis 1:27ESV / 24 helpful votes

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Isaiah 48:13ESV / 23 helpful votes

My hand laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand spread out the heavens; when I call to them, they stand forth together.

Colossians 1:2ESV / 22 helpful votes

To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father.

Matthew 5:18ESV / 22 helpful votes

For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.

1 Corinthians 8:6ESV / 21 helpful votes

Yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.

Jeremiah 51:15ESV / 21 helpful votes

“It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.

Psalm 104:3ESV / 21 helpful votes

He lays the beams of his chambers on the waters; he makes the clouds his chariot; he rides on the wings of the wind;

Genesis 1:31ESV / 21 helpful votes

And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

Hebrews 1:2ESV / 20 helpful votes

But in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world.

Matthew 19:26ESV / 20 helpful votes

But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

Zechariah 12:1ESV / 20 helpful votes

The oracle of the word of the Lord concerning Israel: Thus declares the Lord, who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the spirit of man within him:

Psalm 75:3ESV / 20 helpful votes

When the earth totters, and all its inhabitants, it is I who keep steady its pillars. Selah

Nehemiah 9:6ESV / 19 helpful votes

“You are the Lord, you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them; and you preserve all of them; and the host of heaven worships you.

Genesis 1:3-2:3ESV / 19 helpful votes

And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. And God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.” And God made the expanse and separated the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse. And it was so. ...

Revelation 7:1ESV / 18 helpful votes

After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth, that no wind might blow on earth or sea or against any tree.

Joshua 1:9ESV / 18 helpful votes

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

Revelation 20:8ESV / 17 helpful votes

And will come out to deceive the nations that are at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle; their number is like the sand of the sea.

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