Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Animals » Nature of
Be ye not as the horse or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in subjection with bit and bridle, or they will not come near unto thee.
Nevertheless man will not abide forever in honour; he is like the beasts that are cut off.
I said in my heart concerning the estate of the sons of men that God might manifest them and that they might see that they themselves are beasts one to another. For that which befalls the sons of men befalls beasts; even one thing befalls them: as the one dies, so dies the other; and they all have one breath; so that a man has no more breath than a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all shall turn to dust again. read more.
Who knows that the spirit of the sons of men goes upward and that the spirit of the beast goes downward to the earth?
Who knows that the spirit of the sons of men goes upward and that the spirit of the beast goes downward to the earth?
Corruption » Physical decomposition » After death
in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread until thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken, for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
and the dust returns to the earth as it was before and the spirit returns unto God who gave it.
For thou wilt not leave my soul in Sheol; neither wilt thou suffer thy Merciful One to see corruption.
because thou wilt not leave my soul in Hades, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled; thou takest away their spirit, they cease to exist and return to their dust.
I descended to the roots of the mountains; the earth put her bars about me for ever; yet thou hast brought up my life out of the grave, O LORD my God.
he, seeing this before, spoke of the resurrection of the Christ, that his soul was not left in Hades, neither did his flesh see corruption.
And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said this, I will give you the sure mercies promised to David. Therefore he also says in another place, Thou shalt not suffer thy Holy One to see corruption. For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell asleep and was gathered unto his fathers and saw corruption; read more.
but he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption.
but he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption.
So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, it shall be raised in incorruption;
Now this I say, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.
Dust » Man made from
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.
in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread until thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken, for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
and the dust returns to the earth as it was before and the spirit returns unto God who gave it.
For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust.
And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, who am but dust and ashes;
Remember now that thou hast formed me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
Man » Mortal
And as it is appointed unto men to die once, and after this the judgment;
For since by a man came death, by a man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in the Christ shall all be made alive.
Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his maker?
The wise man has his eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness: And I myself also understood that one event happens to the one and to the other. Then I said in my heart, As it shall happen to the fool, so it shall happen even to me. Why have I worked until now to make myself wiser? Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity.