Reference: Psychology
Hastings
The Bible does not contain a science of psychology in the modern sense; but there is a definite and consistent view of man's nature from the religious standpoint. This being recognized, the old dispute, whether it teaches the bipartite or the tripartite nature of man, loses its meaning, for the distinction of soul and spirit is not a division of man into soul and spirit along with his body or flesh, but a difference of point of view
See Verses Found in Dictionary
The LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.
God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.
My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of the LORD. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
in that you have brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to profane it, even my house, when you offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and you have broken my covenant, to add to all your abominations.
"Thus says the Lord GOD, 'No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any foreigners who are among the children of Israel.
For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.
Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, "Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until this day."
Herein I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.
in that they show the work of the law written on their hearts, their conscience bearing witness, and their conflicting thoughts accusing or else excusing them)
but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members. What a wretched man I am. Who will deliver me out of the body of this death? read more. Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ, our Lord. So then with the mind, I myself serve God's law, but with the flesh, the sin's law.
I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit,
For this reason you also pay taxes, for they are servants of God's service, attending continually on this very thing.
For if I pray in another language, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful. What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also. I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is also a spiritual body.
giving thanks to the Father, who made you fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light;
For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching therein with thanksgiving;
but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior;
I left you in Crete for this reason, that you would set in order the things that were lacking, and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you;
To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.
but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
which is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshipper perfect;
how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse our conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
let us draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,
Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.