12 Bible Verses about Mere Men
Most Relevant Verses
"Men, why are you doing these things? We too are men, with human natures just like you! We are proclaiming the good news to you, so that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything that is in them.
"I, I am the one who consoles you. Why are you afraid of mortal men, of mere human beings who are as short-lived as grass?
The grass dries up, the flowers wither, when the wind sent by the Lord blows on them. Surely humanity is like grass.
A voice says, "Cry out!" Another asks, "What should I cry out?" The first voice responds: "All people are like grass, and all their promises are like the flowers in the field.
Men are nothing but a mere breath; human beings are unreliable. When they are weighed in the scales, all of them together are lighter than air.
People are like a vapor, their days like a shadow that disappears.
-- children not born by human parents or by human desire or a husband's decision, but by God.
And you, my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are my people, and I am your God, declares the sovereign Lord.'"
how much less a mortal man, who is but a maggot -- a son of man, who is only a worm!"
But I am a worm, not a man; people insult me and despise me.
