“We heard Him say, ‘I will demolish this sanctuary made by human hands, and in three days I will build another not made by hands.’”

Brothers, I’m using a human illustration. No one sets aside or makes additions to even a human covenant that has been ratified.

because God’s foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength.

From now on, then, we do not know anyone in a purely human way. Even if we have known Christ in a purely human way, yet now we no longer know Him in this way.

They even made a calf in those days, offered sacrifice to the idol, and were celebrating what their hands had made.

The God who made the world and everything in it—He is Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in shrines made by hands.

Neither is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives everyone life and breath and all things.

Being God’s offspring then, we shouldn’t think that the divine nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image fashioned by human art and imagination.

affliction and distress for every human being who does evil, first to the Jew, and also to the Greek;

But if our unrighteousness highlights God’s righteousness, what are we to say? I use a human argument: Is God unrighteous to inflict wrath?

Brothers, consider your calling: Not many are wise from a human perspective, not many powerful, not many of noble birth.

We also speak these things, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual things to spiritual people.

For just as through one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so also through the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous.

I am using a human analogy because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you offered the parts of yourselves as slaves to moral impurity, and to greater and greater lawlessness, so now offer them as slaves to righteousness, which results in sanctification.

So then it does not depend on human will or effort but on God who shows mercy.

If I fought wild animals in Ephesus with only human hope, what good did that do me? If the dead are not raised, Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.

Like the man made of dust,
so are those who are made of dust;
like the heavenly man,
so are those who are heavenly.

It is of little importance to me that I should be evaluated by you or by any human court. In fact, I don’t even evaluate myself.

Am I saying this from a human perspective? Doesn’t the law also say the same thing?

Now I want you to know, brothers, that the gospel preached by me is not based on human thought.

For I did not receive it from a human source and I was not taught it, but it came by a revelation from Jesus Christ.

know that no one is justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ. And we have believed in Christ Jesus so that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no human being will be justified.

So when I planned this, was I irresponsible? Or what I plan, do I plan in a purely human way so that I say “Yes, yes” and “No, no” simultaneously?

Since many boast in an unspiritual way, I will also boast.

Be careful that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit based on human tradition, based on the elemental forces of the world, and not based on Christ.

All these regulations refer to what is destroyed by being used up; they are commands and doctrines of men.

Slaves, obey your human masters in everything. Don’t work only while being watched, in order to please men, but work wholeheartedly, fearing the Lord.

This is why we constantly thank God, because when you received the message about God that you heard from us, you welcomed it not as a human message, but as it truly is, the message of God, which also works effectively in you believers.

Then we will no longer be little children, tossed by the waves and blown around by every wind of teaching, by human cunning with cleverness in the techniques of deceit.

Slaves, obey your human masters with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ.

So the four angels who were prepared for the hour, day, month, and year were released to kill a third of the human race.

A third of the human race was killed by these three plagues—by the fire, the smoke, and the sulfur that came from their mouths.

These are the ones not defiled with women, for they have kept their virginity. These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. They were redeemed from the human race as the firstfruits for God and the Lamb.

cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, and frankincense; wine, olive oil, fine wheat flour, and grain; cattle and sheep; horses and carriages; and slaves and human lives.

Then he measured its wall, 144 cubits according to human measurement, which the angel used.

Let the unrighteous go on in unrighteousness; let the filthy go on being made filthy; let the righteous go on in righteousness; and let the holy go on being made holy.”

But Jesus turned and saw her. “Have courage, daughter,” He said. “Your faith has made you well.” And the woman was made well from that moment.

Submit to every human authority because of the Lord, whether to the Emperor as the supreme authority

in order to live the remaining time in the flesh, no longer for human desires, but for God’s will.

but received a rebuke for his transgression: A donkey that could not talk spoke with a human voice and restrained the prophet’s irrationality.

For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother’s womb, there are eunuchs who were made by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves that way because of the kingdom of heaven. Let anyone accept this who can.”

You judge by human standards. I judge no one.