List of All Bible Verses on Creation (ALL of them!)

RSR's List of All Bible Verses on Creation
(INITIAL RESULTS: 26 books, 66 chapters, 208 verses)

Appearing in print only and linked to from, RSR has not yet produced a radio program on this 2019 list. Below, you'll find...

- Statistical Overview
- Direct References
- Indirect References
- Creation Passages with Allusions to the Flood
- See Also

* Statistical Overview and Methodology: Both Testaments of the Christian scriptures directly reference creation. Forty percent of the Bible's books, 26 out of 66, with a third of the books in the Old Testament and almost half of those in the New affirming special creation. Documented in the list below, thirteen books in both testaments reveal God as the Creator. Many other books indirectly reference creation. So we've appended below this list examples of such. Sixty six of the Bible's 1,189 chapters, or six percent of them, directly reference creation as do 77 separate passages. What constitutes a "passage" is arbitrary. For this list, we recognize the continuous verses of Gen. 1:1-2:24 as a single passage yet we count Psalm 104:2-30 as six separate passages because non-creation verses divide those 29 into six segments. (We include an intervening verse if it continues the context to show that a final verse in a passage is also directly related to creation.) Also, as discussed below, nine of these passages, marked with bold emphasis, may have allusions to the global flood. Finally, there are 208 individual verses that directly reference creation.

(The version is NKJV unless otherwise indicated. If you would like to help finalize this list, you could use the list below to double check every number in the above paragraph and then email Also, while we believe that this list is comprehensive, please feel free to suggest a verse we may have missed and we'll either add it to the main list or to the Indirect Creation References list below. Thanks!)  

* List of Direct Creation References in the Bible

Genesis 1:1-31; 2:1-24 (For brevity this first passage, encompassing almost two full chapters, is only referenced; all the remaining verses though are quoted in full.)

Genesis 5:1 ESV This is the book of the generations of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God.

Genesis 9:6 ESV "Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.




Job 26:5-13 "The dead tremble, those under the waters and those inhabiting them.
6 Sheol is naked before Him, and Destruction has no covering.
9 He covers the face of His throne, and spreads His cloud over it.
11 The pillars of heaven tremble, and are astonished at His rebuke.
13 By His Spirit He adorned the heavens; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.

Job 33:4 ESV The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

Job 38:4-11 "Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding.


Psalm 8:3-8 When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained,
7 All sheep and oxen— even the beasts of the field,

2 ESV Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge.

Psalm 33:6-7 By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and all the host of them by the breath of His mouth.
7 He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap; He lays up the deep in storehouses. [indirect verses not counted 8 Let all the earth fear the Lord; Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him. 9 For He spoke, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast. 10 The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; He makes the plans of the peoples of no effect.]

Psalm 89:11-12 The heavens are Yours, the earth also is Yours; the world and all its fullness, You have founded them.

Psalm 90:2 ESV Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.

Psalm 95:5-6 The sea is His, for He made it; and His hands formed the dry land.

Psalm 102:25-26 Of old You laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands.

Psalm 104:2-10 Who cover Yourself with light as with a garment, who stretch out the heavens like a curtain.
6 You covered it with the deep as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains. [Gen. 7:20]
7 At Your rebuke they fled; [Gen. 8:1-3] at the voice of Your thunder they hastened away.
10 He sends the springs into the valleys; they flow among the hills.

Psalm 104:13 He waters the hills from His upper chambers; the earth is satisfied with the fruit of Your works.

Psalm 104:16 The trees of the Lord are full of sap, the cedars of Lebanon which He planted, [creation or reforestation after flood]

Psalm 104:19-20 He appointed the moon for seasons; the sun knows its going down.

The earth is full of Your possessions—
26 There the ships sail about; There is that Leviathan which You have made to play there.

Psalm 104:30 You send forth Your Spirit, they are created; and You renew the face of the earth. [not direct 104:32 He looks on the earth, and it trembles; He touches the hills, and they smoke.]

Psalm 115:15 ESV May you be blessed by the Lord, who made heaven and earth!



Psalm 136:5 ESV To him who by understanding made the heavens, for his steadfast love endures forever;

Proverbs 8:22-31 "The Lord possessed me at the beginning of His way, before His works of old.
24 When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no fountains abounding with water [i.e., not fountains of magma].
31 Rejoicing in His inhabited world, and my delight was with the sons of men.

Ecclesiastes 3:11 Of His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.


Isaiah 28:2 [no creation] Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one, like a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, like a flood of mighty waters overflowing, who will bring them down to the earth with His hand.



Isaiah 40:19 The workman molds an image, the goldsmith overspreads [raqa] it with gold, and the silversmith casts silver chains.

Isaiah 40:21-24 Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?
24 Scarcely shall they be planted scarcely shall they be sown, scarcely shall their stock take root in the earth, when He will also blow on them, and they will wither, and the whirlwind will take them away like stubble.



Isaiah 42:5 ESV Thus says God, the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread [Hb. raqa] out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it:

Isaiah 43:7 ESV Everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made."


Isaiah 45:6-9 That they may know from the rising of the sun to its setting that there is none besides Me. I am the Lord, and there is no other;

Isaiah 45:11-12 ESV Thus says the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and the one who formed him: "Ask me of things to come; will you command me concerning my children and the work of my hands?

Isaiah 45:18 For thus says the Lord, who created the heavens, who is God, who formed the earth and made it, who has established it, who did not create it in vain, who formed it to be inhabited: [so on Day 3, the dry land appeared]
"I am the Lord, and there is no other.

Jeremiah 4:23-26 I beheld the earth, and indeed it was without form, and void; and the heavens, they had no light.

Jeremiah 5:22 ESV Do you not fear me? declares the Lord. Do you not tremble before me? [in context of judgment, and interpretatively, by the consequence of the flood, generally speaking, as compared to what happened in the deluge] I placed the sand as the boundary for the sea, a perpetual barrier that it cannot pass; though the waves toss, they cannot prevail; though they roar, they cannot pass over it.

Jeremiah 10:11-16 Thus you shall say to them: "The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under these heavens."
14 Everyone is dull-hearted, without knowledge; every metalsmith is put to shame by an image; for his molded image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
16 The Portion of Jacob is not like them, for He is the Maker of all things, and Israel is the tribe of His inheritance; the Lord of hosts is His name.



Jeremiah 51:15 ESV "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.

Amos 9:6 He who builds His layers in the sky, And has founded His strata in the earth; Who calls for the waters of the sea, And pours them out on the face of the earth—The Lord is His name. [ESV Who builds his upper chambers in the heavens and founds his vault upon the earth; who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out upon the surface of the earth— the Lord is his name.]






2 He was in the beginning with God.



Romans 1:18-20 ESV For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.

Romans 1:25 KJV For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

Romans 8:19 ESV For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God.


Romans 11:36 ESV For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.




1 Timothy 4:3-4 forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
4:4 ESV For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,

Hebrews 1:2-3 ESV 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.
3 ESV He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds [does that directly indicate creation?] 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,

Hebrews 1:10 ESV And, "You, Lord, laid the foundation of the earth in the beginning, and the heavens are the work of your hands;

Hebrews 3:4 ESV For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.

Hebrews 11:3 ESV 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


James 3:9 ESV With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God.

2 Peter 3:5 ESV 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,





Indirect Creation References: many appear in Scripture including passages like the following 16:


Psalm 89:5-9 [very indirect] And the heavens will praise Your wonders, O Lord; Your faithfulness also in the assembly of the saints.

Psalm 111:2 ESV Great are the works of the Lord, studied by all who delight in them.

Ps. 118:24 KJV This is the day which the Lord hath made;
we will rejoice and be glad in it.

Psalm 139:13-14 For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb. [see]


Isaiah 28:22 ...For I have heard from the Lord God of hosts, a destruction determined even upon the whole earth.


Ephesians 2:10 KJV For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.



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* Creation Passages with Allusions to the Flood: The bold emphasis in the scriptures above highlights possible global flood references,   either in contingency or aftermath, contained within these nine creation passages:
- Job 38:4-11
- Ps. 33:6-7
- Ps. 104:2-10
- Prov. 8:22-31
- Isa. 45:6-9
- Jer. 4:23-26
- Amos 9:6
- 2 Peter 3:5

- Genesis Days 2 & 3 (if is valid, then include Gen. 1:6-10)
If these nine creation passages actually do allude to the global flood (of course by inspiration of the Holy Spirit) this could be because of the flood's connection to God's Day 2 and Day 3 actions which provided for the contingency of that global catastrophe. This would emphasize the flood as an architected judgment rather than an ad hoc intervention. Miracles such as Elisha's floating axe head and Jesus turning water into wine, meaning no disrepect of course, in this context could be considered ad hoc in that they do not trace back to specific actions described in the creation week. However, if (the Day 2 firmament of the Earth's crust) and the fountains of the great deep of the global flood are basically correct, then God would see a connection between the creation and flood. This deep connection would explain the tendency for flood reminiscents to appear in the eight creation passages listed above and a foreshadowing to appear in the last.

* More Possible Allusions and "No Sea": See also the underlined emphasis in five other passages above, Job 26:5-13; Ps. 95:5-6; Isa. 42:5; Jer. 10:11-16; and Rev. 21:1. The Bible practically concludes saying about the New Earth that on it, "there was no more sea", that is, no oceans. This is completely understandable from the perspective of the fountains of the great deep model of the global flood called the hydroplate theory. For as understood by Dr. Walt Brown's theory, the original earth had large seas, however the ocean basins themselves were formed from the cataclysm of the flood. So of course, because God didn't do a less-than-perfect job in creating the original Earth, the re-created New Earth will be a paradise very much like the original creation.  

* See Also: Bob Enyart's
The Bible in 33 Events
Christ in All 66 Books (and their summaries)
- All 343 Miracles in the Bible
- The Firmament of Day Two
- (this page)
- Lists Against the Day-Age and Gap Theories
- The Hydroplate Theory of the global flood
List of Evidence for the Flood from science and the scriptures.