Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Animals » Nature of
Become ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding, whose trappings must be bit and bridle to hold them in, [else] they will not come near to thee.
Even a man in splendor does not abide. He is like the beasts that perish.
I said in my heart, [It is] because of the sons of men, that God may prove them, and that they may see that they themselves are beasts. For that which befalls the sons of men befalls beasts, even one thing befalls them; as the one dies, so dies the other. Yea, they all have one breath, and man has no preeminence above the beasts; for all is vanity. All go to one place. All are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. read more.
Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the beast, whether it goes downward to the earth?
Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the beast, whether it goes downward to the earth?
Corruption » Physical decomposition » After death
In the sweat of thy face thou shall eat bread, till thou return to the ground, for out of it thou were taken. For thou are dust, and to dust thou shall return.
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
if I have said to corruption, Thou are my father, to the worm, My mother, and my sister,
For thou will not leave my soul to Sheol, nor will thou allow thy holy man to see corruption.
Because thou will not leave my soul in Hades, nor will thou give thy Holy man to see decay.
Thou hide thy face, they are troubled. Thou take away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth with its bars [closed] upon me forever. Yet thou have brought up my life from the pit, O LORD my God.
Having foreseen this, he spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that his soul was not left behind in Hades, nor did his flesh see decay.
And because he raised him from the dead, no longer going to return to decay, he has spoken this way: I will give to you the faithful holy things of David. Therefore also he says in another, Thou will not give thy Holy man to see decay. For indeed David, who served his own generation in the plan of God, became asleep, and was added near his fathers, and saw decay. read more.
But he whom God raised up saw no decay.
But he whom God raised up saw no decay.
So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in the perishable, it is raised in imperishability.
Now this I affirm, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit imperishability.
Dust » Man made from
And 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 thou shall eat bread, till thou return to the ground, for out of it thou were taken. For thou are dust, and to dust thou shall return.
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to 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 to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes.
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou have fashioned me as clay. And will thou bring me into dust again?
Man » Mortal
And inasmuch as it is reserved to men once to die, and after this, judgment,
For since death is because of a man, the resurrection of the dead is also because of a man. For as by Adam all die, so also by Christ all will be made alive.
Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his maker?
The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness. And yet I perceived that one event happens to them all. Then said I in my heart, As it happens to the fool, so it will happen even to me, and why then was I more wise? Then said I in my heart that this also is vanity.