26 Then God said: “Let us+ make man in our image,+ according to our likeness,+ and let them have in subjection the fish of the sea and the flying creatures of the heavens and the domestic animals and all the earth and every creeping animal that is moving on the earth.”+

1 In the beginning was the Word,+ and the Word was with God,+ and the Word was a god.+

3 All things came into existence through him,+ and apart from him not even one thing came into existence.

What has come into existence

5 So now, Father, glorify me at your side with the glory that I had alongside you before the world was.+

15 He is the image of the invisible God,+ the firstborn of all creation;+ 16 because by means of him all other things were created in the heavens and on the earth, the things visible and the things invisible,+ whether they are thrones or lordships or governments or authorities. All other things have been created through him+ and for him.