Genesis 1:10
And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
Cross-reference
In Genesis 1:4, God evaluates the light and calls it good — the same pattern of divine assessment and approval repeated here when He names land and seas.
In Genesis 1:8, God names the expanse 'Heavens' and declares it good — the same naming-and-evaluating pattern applied here to land and seas, forming a structural pair.
Genesis 2:1 summarizes the completion of all heavens and earth — the waters gathered and land named in 1:10 being part of the finished work now declared complete.
In Exodus 7:19, God turns the Nile to blood, striking both rivers and streams — reversing the orderly separation of clean waters and land that was called good in creation.
In Job 38:10, God describes setting bars and doors for the sea — the active boundary-work behind the waters' gathering into seas here.
In Psalm 24:2, the psalmist celebrates God founding the earth upon the seas — the stable, risen land over gathered waters described here.
In Psalm 33:7, the psalmist echoes this scene almost verbatim: God gathers the waters of the sea as a heap and stores the deep.
In Psalm 95:5, the sea and dry land are celebrated as God's own handiwork — directly recalling His forming and naming them here.
In Proverbs 8:29, Wisdom recalls God assigning the sea its limit so waters would not overstep — the boundary-setting behind these named seas.
In Luke 8:25, the disciples marvel that Jesus commands wind and water — echoing the Creator's sovereign authority over the seas displayed here.
Deuteronomy 32:4 declares God's work is perfect — the theological ground for why creation itself can be called good when God surveys it.
In Psalm 104:31, God rejoices in His creation — reflecting the delight implied when He looks at the ordered seas and land and calls it good.