31 Bible Verses about Man's Relation To God

“Indeed, ask about the earlier days that preceded you, from the day God created man on the earth and from one end of the heavens to the other: Has anything like this great event ever happened, or has anything like it been heard of?

Then the Lord God formed the man out of the dust from the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.

The life of every living thing is in His hand,
as well as the breath of all mankind.

Life was in Him,
and that life was the light of men.

He created them male and female. When they were created, He blessed them and called them man.

These are the family records of the descendants of Adam. On the day that God created man, He made him in the likeness of God; He created them male and female. When they were created, He blessed them and called them man.

Whoever sheds man’s blood,
his blood will be shed by man,
for God made man in His image.

You made him little less than God
and crowned him with glory and honor.

A Davidic psalm.The earth and everything in it,
the world and its inhabitants,
belong to the Lord;

I was rejoicing in His inhabited world,
delighting in the human race.

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
and your ways are not My ways.”
This is the Lord’s declaration.
“For as heaven is higher than earth,
so My ways are higher than your ways,
and My thoughts than your thoughts.

I will not vent the full fury of My anger;
I will not turn back to destroy Ephraim.
For I am God and not man,
the Holy One among you;
I will not come in rage.

But I tell you that you are wrong in this matter,
since God is greater than man.

He will cause deceit to prosper
through his cunning and by his influence,
and in his own mind he will make himself great.
He will destroy many in a time of peace;
he will even stand against the Prince of princes.
Yet he will be shattered—not by human hands.

For He is not a man like me, that I can answer Him,
that we can take each other to court.

“Can a person be more righteous than God,
or a man more pure than his Maker?”

God is not a man who lies,
or a son of man who changes His mind.
Does He speak and not act,
or promise and not fulfill?

Furthermore, the Eternal One of Israel does not lie or change His mind, for He is not man who changes his mind.”

Absolutely not! God must be true, even if everyone is a liar, as it is written:

That You may be justified in Your words
and triumph when You judge.

Would it go well if He examined you?
Could you deceive Him as you would deceive a man?

When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and asked, “Am I God, killing and giving life that this man expects me to cure a man of his skin disease? Think it over and you will see that he is only picking a fight with me.”

But Jesus looked at them and said, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

Looking at them, Jesus said, “With men it is impossible, but not with God, because all things are possible with God.”

He replied, “What is impossible with men is possible with God.”

Rise up, Lord! Do not let man prevail;
let the nations be judged in Your presence.

But who are you, a mere man, to talk back to God? Will what is formed say to the one who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

But He answered, “You cannot see My face, for no one can see Me and live.”

Paul, an apostle—not from men or by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised Him from the dead—

For am I now trying to win the favor of people, or God? Or am I striving to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ.

What You have done so far was a little thing to You, Lord God, for You have also spoken about Your servant’s house in the distant future. And this is a revelation for mankind, Lord God.

After this
I will pour out My Spirit on all humanity;
then your sons and your daughters will prophesy,
your old men will have dreams,
and your young men will see visions.