Genesis 1

Which worship songs are based on Genesis 1?

In the Beginning, Part 1 — Jason Upton (2008) Genesis 1:1
The opening reproduces the beginning of Genesis's creation account, placing God before the singer's questions about personal worth.
7 Days (Intro) — Bryson Gray (2023) Genesis 1:1-3
The introduction closely recites Genesis's account of the initially formless creation, the Spirit over the waters, and God's command that light appear.
Fire in My Bones — SEU Worship (2020) Genesis 1:1-3
The opening combines Genesis's account of God creating light by speech with John's presentation of the eternal Word as the agent of creation and source of light.
Talk to Him — Chris Tomlin (2021) Genesis 1:1
God is identified as the creator of the heavens and the earth, directly echoing the Bible's opening declaration of creation.
The King is Alive — American Arson (2020) Genesis 1:1-2
The opening directly adapts Genesis's description of the unformed creation and applies its primordial darkness to the narrator's inner life.
The Magic Hour — Andrew Peterson (2010) Genesis 1:2
The closing verse's depiction of a holy presence hovering above the landscape recalls God's Spirit hovering over the waters at creation. The connection is an adaptation of that distinctive image, not a retelling of the creation narrative.
Rest On Us — Elle Limebear (2022) Genesis 1:2
The opening directly recalls the Spirit of God hovering over the primordial waters before creation, applying that creative movement to the gathered worshippers.
Every Hour is Yours — The Porter's Gate (2026) Genesis 1:2
The depiction of the Holy Spirit as wind moving over the waters unmistakably recalls God's Spirit hovering over the primordial waters at creation.
Breathe on Me — John Waller (2007) Genesis 1:2
The appeal for the Spirit to hover over the singer invokes the distinctive image of God's Spirit hovering over the waters at creation.
Rest On Us (Spirit Come Move Over Us) [feat. Sam Rivera] — Maverick City Music & Sam Rivera (2024) Genesis 1:2
The chorus closely paraphrases the creation account’s description of God’s Spirit hovering over the primordial waters.
Calm the Storm (Live) — Union Creative (2019) Genesis 1:2-3
The sequence of primordial disorder, divine speech, and darkness giving way to light closely follows the opening creation imagery in Genesis.
Things of Heaven — Red Rocks Worship (2021) Genesis 1:2
The invocation of the Holy Spirit moving over the gathered community specifically evokes God's Spirit hovering over the primordial waters before creation.
The War Ender — Becoming the Archetype (2012) Genesis 1:3
The opening repeats God's creation command verbatim, presenting light's arrival in darkness as an act of divine speech.
We Are Listening — Steven Curtis Chapman (2016) Genesis 1:3-4
God’s spoken command transforming darkness into light closely paraphrases the opening act of creation.
Let It Be Love — Michael Sweet (2019) Genesis 1:3
The refrain adapts God's creation command that brings light into darkness, applying the creation motif to love's active presence in the world.
Light — Nathan Wagner (2019) Genesis 1:3
The recurring refrain directly reproduces God's command at the creation of light, presenting divine illumination as an act of re-creation amid darkness.
Let There Be Light — Chris August (2012) Genesis 1:3-4
The refrain directly repeats God's command that brings light into existence, explicitly identifying it as something God spoke at the beginning. The later comparison to God's recognition of goodness also recalls His judgment that the newly created light was good.
Native Tongue — Switchfoot (2019) Genesis 1:3
The song invokes the divine creation command and its immediate fulfillment, directly echoing the first spoken creative act in Genesis.
Be Praised (feat. Naomi Raine & Aaron Moses) — Maverick City Music & Naomi Raine & Aaron Moses (2020) Genesis 1:3
The opening directly reproduces God's command that brings light into existence, clearly locating the song in the Genesis creation account.
Emmanuel — Charity Gayle & Ryan Kennedy (2025) Genesis 1:3
The song references the act of God speaking light into existence, which directly alludes to the creation narrative in Genesis where God commands light to appear.
Jesus Iye — Nathaniel Bassey (2023) Genesis 1:3
The second verse directly uses God's creation command from Genesis 1:3, presenting divine speech as bringing light into darkness.
Let God Come In (Live) — Melissa Helser & Jonathan David Helser & Cageless Birds (2025) Genesis 1:3
The chorus repeats the divine creation command by which light is called into existence, applying that command to God's entrance into the inner life.
Hallelujah Challenge Praise Medley — Nathaniel Bassey (2021) Genesis 1:3
The account of God commanding light and light immediately appearing closely reproduces the first creation command in Genesis.
Shine, Jesus, Shine — Crystal Lewis (2014) Genesis 1:3
The chorus repeats God's command that brings light into existence at creation, turning it into a prayer for divine renewal.
Time in Between — Francesca Battistelli (2008) Genesis 1:3
The opening directly reproduces God's command bringing light into existence. The song places Jesus at this creation event.
Light — Rita Springer (2020) Genesis 1:3
The chorus directly invokes God's first creative command, applying the creation of light amid primordial darkness to a prayer for divine intervention and illumination.
Only Just Met You — Brandon Heath (2015) Genesis 1:3
The opening verse depicts divine speech bringing light into darkness, closely adapting the creation account in which God commands light into existence. The song applies that creative act to a personal encounter with Jesus.
Unidos Pela Palavra — Elaine Martins (2015) Genesis 1:3-4
The opening closely reproduces God's command bringing light into existence and his judgment that it is good. It then compresses the creation of the heavenly lights into a command concerning the sun.
Up Tho! — Bizzle & Gifted Hands (2025) Genesis 1:4
The distinction between light and darkness is directly attributed to Genesis 1:4, where God separates the created light from the darkness.
More Than Me — Ian Munsick (2023) Genesis 1:14-18
The song identifies God as the maker of the moon and stars, invoking the creation account in which God appoints the heavenly lights.
Stars in My Sky — Jordan Feliz (2020) Genesis 1:16-17
The recurring portrayal of God placing stars in the sky evokes the creation account, where God makes the stars and sets the heavenly lights in the expanse.
Just the Way You Are — Helen Baylor (2012) Genesis 1:26-27
The contrast between a mirror's reflection and the divine creator of human identity evokes humanity's creation in God's image. The closing assurance from the Creator reinforces this image-based connection rather than merely expressing general acceptance.
I Am New (Extended Acoustic Version) — Jason Gray (2009) Genesis 1:26-27
The ending explicitly grounds human identity in bearing the Creator's image, recalling the account of humanity's creation in God's likeness.
I Am Held (Live) — Pat Barrett (2019) Genesis 1:26-27
The song identifies humanity as bearing God's image and receiving life through divine breath, directly combining the creation accounts' distinctive descriptions of human origin.
Transgressor — Stryper (2022) Genesis 1:26-27
The opening identifies human beings as more than physical creatures because they bear God's image, directly invoking the creation account's description of humanity.
The Truth — Megan Woods (2024) Genesis 1:26-27
The affirmation that human identity derives from being made in God's image directly invokes the creation account's description of humanity as bearing the divine image.
The Epilogue (For Me) — Da’ T.R.U.T.H. (2018) Genesis 1:26-27
The artist grounds human worth in being made in God's image, directly invoking the creation account's basis for humanity's God-given dignity.
17 — Chris Renzema (2020) Genesis 1:26-27
The bridge explicitly identifies the singer as made in God's image, directly invoking the creation account's description of humanity.
Morning Song (Thank You Lord) — Ernie Haase & Signature Sound (2021) Genesis 1:26-27
The singer explicitly identifies humanity as made in God's image, directly restating the defining language of the creation of humankind in Genesis.
Human Nature — Brandon Heath (2022) Genesis 1:26-27
The song explicitly grounds human dignity in humanity bearing God's image, directly invoking the creation account's description of humankind.
Power Perfect — Kings Kaleidoscope (2020) Genesis 1:26-27
The spoken outro directly identifies human beings as created in God's image, restating the creation account's description of humanity.
Be the Moon — Chris Tomlin (2020) Genesis 1:26-27
The opening identifies God as Creator and humanity as made in God's image, directly restating the creation account's description of human identity.
For the King — Paul Baloche (2020) Genesis 1:26-27
The song directly invokes humanity's creation in God's image, closely paraphrasing the creation account's description of human beings.
Made In Your Image — Hillsong Kids (2018) Genesis 1:26-27
The repeated declaration that human beings are made in God's image directly restates the creation account's description of humanity as created in the divine image.
Did You Mean Me? — Todd Agnew (2017) Genesis 1:26-27
The chorus directly invokes the creation teaching that human beings were made in God's image, contrasting it with the singer's inability to recognize that likeness in himself.
Uncommon Me — Isaac Carree (2011) Genesis 1:26-27
The bridge explicitly identifies God’s image as the basis of the singer’s created identity, closely adapting Genesis’s account of humanity being made in God’s image.
Dark Skin (feat. Black Violin) — KB & Black Violin (2020) Genesis 1:26-27
The affirmation that dark-skinned people were formed in God's image directly invokes the creation account's declaration that humanity bears the divine image.
Sleep @ Night — Parris Chariz (2018) Genesis 1:26-27
The artist explicitly grounds his identity in humanity's creation according to God's likeness, directly paraphrasing the Genesis account.
2003 — Parris Chariz & Ots J Huncho (2025) Genesis 1:26-27
The mirror imagery presents the speaker as bearing God's image, directly invoking the creation teaching that humanity was made in the image and likeness of God.
Royalty — Tasha Cobbs Leonard (2020) Genesis 1:26-27
The repeated affirmation that humanity is made in God's image directly restates the creation account's teaching about human beings bearing the divine image.
How You Made Me — Kaelob Mecum (2026) Genesis 1:26-27
The chorus identifies humanity as created by God to bear his image, directly reflecting the creation account's description of human identity.
The Serpents Tongue — Impending Doom (2018) Genesis 1:26-27
The repeated claim that human beings bear God's image directly adapts the creation declaration that humanity was made in the image of God, though the song gives this language an explicitly Christological form.
Troublesome — Bryson Gray (2020) Genesis 1:27
The assertion that God made humanity as man and woman closely invokes the creation account's description of humanity as created male and female.
Nuthin’ — Lecrae (2014) Genesis 1:27
Lecrae directly invokes humanity’s creation in God’s image, contrasting that God-given identity with betrayal and materialism.
World Traveler — Andrew Peterson (2010) Genesis 1:27
Peterson recognizes his children as bearing their Creator’s image, directly invoking Genesis’s description of humanity as made in God’s image. This specific connection grounds his wonder at the people within his own home.
Beautiful Life 2 (Mine) — Trip Lee (2014) Genesis 1:27
Trip explicitly grounds his daughter's worth in her creation in God's image. This closely adapts Genesis's statement that God created humanity, male and female, in his image.
Freedom Song — Mandisa (2009) Genesis 1:27
The teenage girl's testimony explicitly invokes humanity's creation in God's image. The song applies this creation statement to her personal worth, countering appearance-based shame.
God Rested — Andrew Peterson (2018) Genesis 1:31
The chorus closely joins the creation account with the Sabbath command: God completes heaven and earth in six days, declares creation good, and rests and blesses the seventh day.
Good (Adam & Eve) — Matthew West (2011) Genesis 1:31
The repeated divine assessment of goodness recalls God's evaluation of completed creation. The song reworks that verdict into Adam and Eve's question about whether God can still regard them favorably after their disobedience.
Good — Dave Barnes (2022) Genesis 1:31
The speaker surveys what God has made at the beginning of a new day and declares it good, closely echoing God's assessment of the completed creation in Genesis.
Take and Eat — The Porter's Gate (2025) Genesis 1:31
The intensified declaration of goodness recalls God’s verdict upon the completed creation, linking the meal with the goodness of the material world.

Genesis 1 (King James Version)

¹ In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

² And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

³ And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

⁴ And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

⁵ And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

⁶ And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

⁷ And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

⁸ And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

⁹ And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

¹⁰ And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

¹¹ And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

¹² And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

¹³ And the evening and the morning were the third day.

¹⁴ And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:

¹⁵ And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

¹⁶ And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

¹⁷ And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,

¹⁸ And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

¹⁹ And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

²⁰ And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

²¹ And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

²² And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

²³ And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

²⁴ And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.

²⁵ And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

²⁶ And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

²⁷ So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

²⁸ And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

²⁹ And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

³⁰ And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.

³¹ And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.