Bible Verses about โgenetic engineeringโ
The Bible contains 22 verses about genetic engineering across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โOr don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,โ
โGod created man in his own image. In God's image he created him; male and female he created them.โ
โI will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.โ
โGod 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 birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."โ
โFor you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother's womb.โ
โMy frame wasn't hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth.โ
โYour eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them.โ
โThe earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with its seed in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.โ
โGod said, "Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed in it, on the earth;" and it was so.โ
โEvery tree that doesn't grow good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.โ
โFor by him all things were created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him.โ
โFor every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.โ
โProfessing themselves to be wise, they became fools,โ
โand traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things.โ
โ"'You shall keep my statutes. "'You shall not crossbreed different kinds of animals. "'you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed; "'neither shall there come upon on you a garment made of two kinds of material.โ
โAll flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, another flesh of animals, another of fish, and another of birds.โ
โBut God gives it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own.โ
โBut he answered, "Every plant which my heavenly Father didn't plant will be uprooted.โ
โFor you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings.โ
โIn the day of your planting, you hedge it in. In the morning, you make your seed blossom, but the harvest flees away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.โ
โYou shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole fruit be forfeited, the seed which you have sown, and the increase of the vineyard.โ
โConsider the work of God, for who can make that straight, which he has made crooked?โ
