100+ Powerful Book of Genesis Quotes – Timeless Wisdom & Inspirational Verses

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

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

God saw all that he had made, and it was very good.

Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness.

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

God blessed the seventh day and made it holy.

He formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life.

It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.

God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems.

Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it.

God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night.

Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it.

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

Then the Lord God formed a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh.”

You are dust, and to dust you shall return.

Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?

I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers.

What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground.

Am I my brother’s keeper?

The Lord said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great that I must go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me.”

For whoever sheds human blood, by humans shall their blood be shed.

The man called his wife’s name Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living.

They heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.

When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it.

Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked.

Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life.

By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground.

To the woman he said, “I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children.”

The man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all the living, yet death entered through her disobedience.

Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made.

Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?

You will surely not die, the serpent said to the woman.

Sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.

Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?”

The ground opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.

Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.

So Abram went, as the Lord had told him.

Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering.

Abraham got up early the next morning and loaded his donkey.

Here I am, my son. The fire and wood are here, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?

God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, Abraham answered.

Because you have obeyed me, I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky.

Do not lay a hand on the boy, the angel of the Lord called out. Now I know that you fear God.

The Lord will provide; as it is said to this day, “On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.”

Walk before me and be blameless.

No longer will you be called Abram; your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.

I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you.

All peoples on earth will be blessed through you.

To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates.

I am your shield, your very great reward.

Look up at the sky and count the stars—if indeed you can count them. So shall your offspring be.

The Lord made a covenant with Abram and said, “To your descendants I give this land.”

This is the sign of the covenant I make between me and you and every living creature for all generations to come.

I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood.

Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures.

I will confirm my covenant between me and you and will greatly increase your numbers.

My covenant in your flesh will be an everlasting covenant.

Nothing will be impossible for the Lord at the appointed time.

The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time.

I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created.

But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.

Make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out.

I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens.

Everything on earth will perish.

Then the Lord said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.”

The rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.

Every living thing that moved on land perished.

The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days.

The smoke of the cities went up like the smoke from a furnace.

When God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the catastrophe.

The Lord appeared to Abraham near the great trees of Mamre.

I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife will have a son.

Nothing is too hard for the Lord.

The Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah what he had promised.

Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age.

God was with the boy as he grew.

Do not be afraid, for God hears the boy crying.

Lift the boy up and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.

Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water.

The angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What is troubling you, Hagar?”

I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go.

The Lord appeared to Isaac and said, “Stay in this land for a while, and I will be with you and will bless you.”

Sarah laughed and said, “After I am worn out and my lord is old, will I now have this pleasure?”

Is anything too hard for the Lord?

Hagar gave Abram a son, and Abram gave him the name Ishmael.

Sarai said to Abram, “You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering.”

May the Lord judge between you and me.

Lot looked up and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan toward Zoar was well watered.

Abram said to Lot, “Let there be no strife between you and me, or between your herdsmen and mine, for we are brothers.”

Esau despised his birthright.

Jacob said, “Sell me your birthright right now.”

Rebekah said to Jacob, “I’m prepared to take the curse upon myself. Just do what I say.”

Now Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him.

His brothers said to him, “Are you going to reign over us? Will you actually rule us?”

Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Harran.

He came to a certain place and stayed there overnight because the sun had set.

He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven.

Angels of God were ascending and descending on it.

There above it stood the Lord, and he said: “I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac.”

Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south.

Know that I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go.

Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I was not aware of it.”

How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven.

Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him all the more.

We were binding sheaves of grain out in the field when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around mine and bowed down to it.

His brothers said to him, “Do you intend to reign over us? Will you actually rule us?”

Though you intended to harm me, God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.

God will surely come to your aid and take you up out of this land to the land he promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Then Joseph wept as his brothers wept, and he kissed them and embraced them.

Do not be distressed and do not be angry with yourselves for selling me here, because it was to save lives that God sent me ahead of you.

God sent me ahead of you to preserve for you a remnant on earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

You intended to harm me, but God used it for good.

I will provide for you and your children,” Joseph said, comforting them with kind words.

As for me, I am going to die, but God will surely come to your aid.

Joseph made the sons of Israel swear, saying, “God will surely come to your aid, and then you must carry my bones up from this place.”

The Lord was with Joseph so that whatever he did prospered.

God meant it for good, though men meant it for evil.

He saved many lives through suffering and exile.