1:16
Chapter 1, verse 16 appears in 52 books of the Bible. Here is Genesis, the first in canonical order — every other place it appears is listed below.
Genesis 1:16
God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars.Read the whole chapter →
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Exodus 1:16and he said, “When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool, if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.”→Leviticus 1:16and he shall take away its crop and its feathers, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, in the place of the ashes.→Numbers 1:16These are those who were called of the congregation, the princes of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Israel.→Deuteronomy 1:16I commanded your judges at that time, saying, “Hear cases between your brothers and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him.→Joshua 1:16They answered Joshua, saying, “All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go.→Judges 1:16The children of the Kenite, Moses’ brother-in-law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which is in the south of Arad; and they went and lived with the people.→Ruth 1:16Ruth said, “Don’t urge me to leave you, and to return from following you, for where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God.→1 Samuel 1:16Don’t consider your servant a wicked woman; for I have been speaking out of the abundance of my complaint and my provocation.”→2 Samuel 1:16David said to him, “Your blood be on your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I have slain the LORD’s anointed.’ ”→1 Kings 1:16Bathsheba bowed, and showed respect to the king. The king said, “What would you like?”→2 Kings 1:16He said to him, “the LORD says, ‘Because you have sent messengers to inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, is it because there is no God in Israel to inquire of his word? Therefore you will not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but you will surely die.’ ”→1 Chronicles 1:16the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite.→2 Chronicles 1:16The horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt and from Kue. The king’s merchants purchased them from Kue.→Esther 1:16Memucan answered before the king and the princes, “Vashti the queen has not done wrong to just the king, but also to all the princes, and to all the people who are in all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus.→Job 1:16While he was still speaking, there also came another, and said, “The fire of God has fallen from the sky, and has burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”→Proverbs 1:16for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.→Ecclesiastes 1:16I said to myself, “Behold, I have obtained for myself great wisdom above all who were before me in Jerusalem. Yes, my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.”→Song of Solomon 1:16Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, yes, pleasant; and our couch is verdant.→Isaiah 1:16Wash yourselves. Make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.→Jeremiah 1:16I will utter my judgments against them concerning all their wickedness, in that they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, and worshiped the works of their own hands.→Lamentations 1:16“For these things I weep. My eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me. My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.”→Ezekiel 1:16The appearance of the wheels and their work was like a beryl. The four of them had one likeness. Their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel within a wheel.→Daniel 1:16So the steward took away their dainties, and the wine that they would drink, and gave them vegetables.→Joel 1:16Isn’t the food cut off before our eyes; joy and gladness from the house of our God?→Obadiah 1:16For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so will all the nations drink continually. Yes, they will drink, swallow down, and will be as though they had not been.→Jonah 1:16Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly; and they offered a sacrifice to the LORD, and made vows.→Micah 1:16Shave your heads, and cut off your hair for the children of your delight. Enlarge your baldness like the vulture; for they have gone into captivity from you!→Habakkuk 1:16Therefore he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious, and his food is good.→Zephaniah 1:16a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fortified cities, and against the high battlements.→Zechariah 1:16Therefore the LORD says: “I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy. My house shall be built in it,” says the LORD of Armies, “and a line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem.” ’→Matthew 1:16Jacob became the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, from whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.→Mark 1:16Passing along by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew, the brother of Simon, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.→Luke 1:16He will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God.→John 1:16From his fullness we all received grace upon grace.→Acts 1:16“Brothers, it was necessary that this Scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was guide to those who took Jesus.→Romans 1:16For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.→1 Corinthians 1:16(I also baptized the household of Stephanas; besides them, I don’t know whether I baptized any other.)→2 Corinthians 1:16and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be sent forward by you on my journey to Judea.→Galatians 1:16to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn’t immediately confer with flesh and blood,→Ephesians 1:16don’t cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers,→Philippians 1:16The former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains;→Colossians 1:16For by him all things were created in the heavens and on the earth, visible things and invisible things, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things have been created through him and for him.→1 Timothy 1:16However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might display all his patience for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.→2 Timothy 1:16May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,→Titus 1:16They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.→Philemon 1:16no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much rather to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.→James 1:16Don’t be deceived, my beloved brothers.→1 Peter 1:16because it is written, “You shall be holy; for I am holy.”→2 Peter 1:16For we didn’t follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.→Jude 1:16These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts—and their mouth speaks proud things—showing respect of persons to gain advantage.→Revelation 1:16He had seven stars in his right hand. Out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining at its brightest.→