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

28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, (B)“Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

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(A)what is man that you are (B)mindful of him,
    and (C)the son of man that you (D)care for him?

Yet you have made him a little lower than (E)the heavenly beings[a]
    and crowned him with (F)glory and honor.
You have given him (G)dominion over the works of your hands;
    (H)you have put all things under his feet,

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 8:5 Or than God; Septuagint than the angels

16 Do you not know that if you present yourselves (A)to anyone as obedient slaves,[a] you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 6:16 For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface; twice in this verse; also verses 17, 19 (twice), 20

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