Every person bears God’s image

Genesis 1:26–27; James 3:7–12

Use your preferred translation.

How should another person’s dignity govern our speech and treatment of them?

• What does the passage say? Restate it in your own words before interpreting it.
• Who is speaking, and to whom?
• What is the surrounding context — what comes just before and after?
• Which words or phrases repeat or stand out?

1. What does it mean that all people, not only believers, are made in God’s image?
2. James says we bless God and curse people made in His likeness. Why does he find this contradictory?
3. In what settings — online, in traffic, at work — do we most easily forget another person’s dignity?

Whom have you spoken about this week in a way that denied their dignity?

For one week, refuse to use contemptuous labels for any group or person, including those you disagree with.

Ask God to help you see every person as made in His image and to guard your tongue.