1 quotation linked to King James Bible — Genesis 1:31 associated with Genesis, with source notes, explanations and related topics.
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“And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.”
The creation narrative closes its sequence by evaluating the whole created order positively, making goodness a lens for regarding the natural world.
Source note: Genesis 1:31, King James Version; the verse concludes the creation sequence with an assessment of everything that had been made.