Genesis 1:1
“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”
Genesis → Revelation: The Reformed Spine
Essential “spine texts” every Reformed teacher should know—ordered along Creation, Fall, Redemption, Consummation— grounded in the Covenants of Redemption, Works, and Grace. Use as an ESV-ready scaffold; replace excerpts with full ESV quotations where licensed.
Creation & Fall
Genesis 1:26–27
“Let us make man in our image…”
Genesis 2:16–17
“You may surely eat… but of the tree… you shall not eat…”
Genesis 3:15
“He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”
Covenant Promises
Genesis 12:1–3; 15:6
“In you all the families of the earth shall be blessed… And he believed the Lord, and he counted it to him as righteousness.”
Exodus 20:1–3
“I am the Lord your God… You shall have no other gods before me.”
2 Samuel 7:12–16
“I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.”
Prophets & Anticipation
Psalm 51:5, 10
“Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity… Create in me a clean heart, O God.”
Psalm 110:1
“The Lord says to my Lord: ‘Sit at my right hand…’”
Isaiah 53:4–6
“He was pierced for our transgressions… and with his wounds we are healed.”
Jeremiah 31:31–34; Ezekiel 36:26–27
“I will make a new covenant… I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you.”
Christ & Gospel Fulfillment
John 1:1, 14
“In the beginning was the Word… And the Word became flesh…”
John 3:16
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son…”
John 6:37–40
“All that the Father gives me will come to me…”
Matthew 5:17; 28:18–20
“I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them… All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.”
Ephesians 1:3–14 — Pactum Salutis Window
“He chose us in him before the foundation of the world… sealed with the promised Holy Spirit.”
Pauline / Reformation Core
Romans 1:16–17; 3:23–24
“The gospel… the righteousness of God is revealed… all have sinned… and are justified by his grace…”
Romans 5:12–19
“As by one man’s disobedience… so by the one man’s obedience…”
Romans 8:28–30; 9:15–16
“Those whom he foreknew he also predestined… I will have mercy on whom I have mercy.”
2 Corinthians 5:21
“For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin…”
Galatians 2:16
“A person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ.”
Ephesians 2:1–10
“By grace you have been saved through faith… this is not your own doing…”
Philippians 2:5–11
“He humbled himself… therefore God has highly exalted him…”
Perseverance & Consummation
Hebrews 4:14–16; 9:11–15
“We have a great high priest… mediator of a new covenant.”
1 Peter 1:3–5
“Born again to a living hope… kept by God’s power…”
Revelation 5:9–10
“Worthy are you… for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people…”
Revelation 21:1–5
“Behold, I am making all things new.”
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