Bible Verses About Creation: 21 Verses About God's Work

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” – so the Bible begins. It tells of a world that God made good, and invites us to marvel and take responsibility. Here you will find 21 Bible verses about creation.

God, the Creator

The world as God’s work.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Genesis 1:1
And God saw everything that he had made; and behold, it was very good. Then evening and morning were the sixth day.

Genesis 1:31Image of God Beauty
The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament proclaims the work of his hands.

Psalm 19:2Glory Psalms
The earth is the LORD’s, and everything in it, the ground beneath and everything that lives on it.

Psalm 24:1World
The heavens are made by the word of the LORD, and all their host by the spirit of his mouth.

Psalm 33:6
LORD, how great and wide are your works! You have wisely arranged them all, and the earth is full of your bounty.

Psalm 104:24
When I see the heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have prepared: what is man, that you remember him, and the child of man, that you take him to heart?

Psalm 8:4-5
Lift up your eyes to the heavens and see! Who has created such things, and who can count their host? He calls them all by name; his bounty and his power are so great that they cannot fail.

Isaiah 40:26Almighty
All things are made through him, and without him nothing that has been made exists.

John 1:3
For through him all things were created, whatever is in heaven and on earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones, authorities, powers, or rulers; all things were created through him and for him.

Colossians 1:16
Through faith we know that the world was finished by God’s word, that everything we see came from nothing.

Hebrews 11:3
So that God’s invisible nature, that is, his eternal power and divinity, may be seen, if anyone observes it, by the works, namely by the creation of the world; so that they have no excuse.

Romans 1:20Glory

Marveling and Preserving

Creation praises God – and is entrusted to us.

And God the LORD took man and placed him in the Garden of Eden, that he might till it and keep it.

Genesis 2:15Work
Praise him, sun and moon; praise him, all you shining stars! Praise him, all you heavens, and you waters above the heavens! Let them praise the name of the LORD; for he commanded, and they were created.

Psalm 148:3-5
You make grass grow for the cattle and seed for human use, that you may bring forth bread from the earth.

Psalm 104:14
Ask the cattle, and they will teach you; the birds under the heavens, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, and the fish in the sea will tell you. Who did not recognize in all this that the hand of the LORD has made it? That in his hand is the soul of everything that lives, and the spirit of all people?

Job 12:7-10Animals
Look at the birds under the heavens: they do not sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more than they?

Matthew 6:26Animals God as Father
For the anxious waiting of the creature awaits the revelation of the children of God. For just as the creature is subject to vanity without its will, but for the sake of the one who subjected it, in hope. For the creature also will be freed from the service of the perishable being to the glorious freedom of the children of God.

Romans 8:19-21End times
LORD, you are worthy of praise, honor, and power; for you created all things, and through your will they have their being and were created.

Revelation 4:11Praise
Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar and everything in it; let the field be glad and everything on it; and let all the trees in the forest praise.

Psalm 96:11-12
For you shall go out with joy and be led in peace. Let the mountains and hills break into joyful shouts before you with praise, and let all the trees in the field clap their hands.

Isaiah 55:12Trees

Bible texts: Luther Bible 1912 (public domain), carefully adapted to modern spelling.

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Creation in the Bible

The first two chapters of the Bible tell the story of creation in two ways: in seven days, in which God creates through his word, and in a garden, in which God forms man from the earth. Both do not intend to give a scientific account, but rather to say who is behind it all and what the world means: It is intended, ordered, and good. Seven times it is said in Genesis 1 that God saw that it was good – at the end even “very good” (Genesis 1:31). The Psalms take up this marveling: “LORD, how great and wide are your works! You have wisely arranged them all” (Psalm 104:24).

Preserving Creation

Man receives a task: He shall “till and keep” the garden (Genesis 2:15). Ruling over creation therefore does not mean exploiting it in the Bible, but tending it like a gardener. Paul describes that the whole creation longs for redemption: “all creation longs with us” (Romans 8:22). For Christians, therefore, commitment to the environment and fair production is not a side issue, but part of their faith. More verses about individual parts of creation can be found at Bible verses about trees, Bible verses about animals, Bible verses about mountains, and Bible verses about the sea.