The word in Scripture

Likeness in the Bible

The word likeness appears 34 times in the King James Version of the Bible. Likeness is resemblance and conformity to another. And like every true word of Scripture, it finds its fullness in Jesus Christ.

What likeness means in the Bible

Likeness is resemblance and conformity to another.

Where the word likeness appears

Here are 8 of the passages where the word likeness appears, chosen from across the Scriptures, in the words of the King James Bible:

“This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;”Genesis 5:1

“Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:”Exodus 20:4

“The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:”Deuteronomy 4:18

“As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.”Psalms 17:15

“To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?”Isaiah 40:18

“For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:”Romans 6:5

“For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:”Romans 8:3

“But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:”Philippians 2:7