'Man' in the Bible

What I mean is that each of you is a partisan. One man says "I belong to Paul;" another "I belong to Apollos;" a third "I belong to Peter;" a fourth "I belong to Christ."

Where is your wise man? Where your expounder of the Law? Where your investigator of the questions of this present age? Has not God shown the world's wisdom to be utter foolishness?

to prevent any mortal man from boasting in the presence of God.

so that your trust might rest not on the wisdom of man but on the power of God.

But--to use the words of Scripture--we speak of things which eye has not seen nor ear heard, and which have never entered the heart of man: all that God has in readiness for them that love Him.

The unspiritual man rejects the things of the Spirit of God, and cannot attain to the knowledge of them, because they are spiritually judged.

But the spiritual man judges of everything, although he is himself judged by no one.

Let no one deceive himself. If any man imagines that he is wise, compared with the rest of you, with the wisdom of the present age, let him become "foolish" so that he may be wise.

Therefore form no premature judgements, but wait until the Lord returns. He will both bring to light the secrets of darkness and will openly disclose the motives that have been in people's hearts; and then the praise which each man deserves will come to him from God.

It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and of a kind unheard of even among the Gentiles--a man has his father's wife!

And you, instead of mourning and removing from among you the man who has done this deed of shame, are filled with self-complacency!

I have handed over such a man to Satan for the destruction of his body, that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord Jesus.

But what I meant was that you were not to associate with any one bearing the name of "brother," if he was addicted to fornication or avarice or idol-worship or abusive language or hard-drinking or greed of gain. With such a man you ought not even to eat.

while you leave to God's judgement those who are outside? Remove the wicked man from among you.

I say this to put you to shame. Has it come to this, that there does not exist among you a single wise man competent to decide between a man and his brother,

Or do you not know that a man who has to do with a prostitute is one with her in body? For God says, "The two shall become one."

I now deal with the subjects mentioned in your letter. It is well for a man to abstain altogether from marriage.

But because there is so much fornication every man should have a wife of his own, and every woman should have a husband.

Let a man pay his wife her due, and let a woman also pay her husband his.

A married woman is not mistress of her own person: her husband has certain rights. In the same way a married man is not master of his own person: his wife has certain rights.

If, however, the unbeliever is determined to leave, let him or her do so. Under such circumstances the Christian man or woman is no slave; God has called us to live lives of peace.

For what assurance have you, O woman, as to whether you will save your husband? Or what assurance have you, O man, as to whether you will save your wife?

Whatever be the condition in life in which a man was, when he was called, in that let him continue.

For a Christian, if he was a slave when called, is the Lord's freed man, and in the same way a free man, if called, becomes the slave of Christ.

Concerning unmarried women I have no command to give you from the Lord; but I offer you my opinion, which is that of a man who, through the Lord's mercy, is deserving of your confidence.

I think then that, taking into consideration the distress which is now upon us, it is well for a man to remain as he is.

And I would have you free from worldly anxiety. An unmarried man concerns himself with the Lord's business--how he shall please the Lord;

but a married man concerns himself with the business of the world--how he shall please his wife.

but if any one loves God, that man is known by God.

Let no one be for ever seeking his own good, but let each seek that of his fellow man.

I would have you know, however, that of every man, Christ is the Head, that of a woman her husband is the Head, and that God is Christ's Head.

A man who wears a veil when praying or prophesying dishonors his Head;

For a man ought not to have a veil on his head, since he is the image and glory of God; while woman is the glory of man.

Man does not take his origin from woman, but woman takes hers from man.

For man was not created for woman's sake, but woman for man's.

Yet, in the Lord, woman is not independent of man nor man independent of woman.

For just as woman originates from man, so also man comes into existence through woman, but everything springs originally from God.

Does not Nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair it is a dishonor to him,

for it is his own supper of which each of you is in a hurry to partake, and one eats like a hungry man, while another has already drunk to excess.

But let a man examine himself, and, having done that, then let him eat the bread and drink from the cup.

to a third man, by means of the same Spirit, special faith; to another various gifts of healing, by means of the one Spirit;

When I was a child, I talked like a child, felt like a child, reasoned like a child: when I became a man, I put from me childish ways.

I should be right glad were you all to speak in 'tongues,' but yet more glad were you all to prophesy. And, in fact, the man who prophesies is superior to him who speaks in 'tongues,' except when the latter can interpret in order that the Church may get a blessing.

Therefore let a man who has the gift of tongues pray for the power of interpreting them.

Otherwise, if you bless God in spirit only, how shall he who is in the position of an ungifted man say the 'Amen' to your giving of thanks, when he does not know what your words mean?

If, on the other hand, every one is prophesying and an unbeliever or an ungifted man comes in, he is convicted by all and closely examined by all,

or if there is no interpreter, let the man with the gift be silent in the Church, speaking to himself and to God.

If any one deems himself to be a Prophet or a man with spiritual gifts, let him recognize as the Lord's command all that I am now writing to you.

For seeing that death came through man, through man comes also the resurrection of the dead.

Foolish man! the seed you yourself sow has no life given to it unless it first dies;

In the same way also it is written, "The first man Adam became a living animal"; the last Adam is a life-giving Spirit.

The first man is a man of earth, earthy; the second man is from Heaven.