Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Animals » Nature of
Be ye not as a horse, as a mule, which have no understanding: whose trappings must be bit and bridle, for restraint, or they will not come unto thee.
Nevertheless, man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.
I said in my heart, It is thus with the children of men, that God may prove them, and that they should see that they themselves are but beasts. For what befalleth the children of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other, and they have all one breath; and man hath no pre-eminence above the beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place: all are of the dust, and all return to dust. read more.
Who knoweth the spirit of the children of men? Doth it go upwards? and the spirit of the beasts, doth it go downwards to the earth?
Who knoweth the spirit of the children of men? Doth it go upwards? and the spirit of the beasts, doth it go downwards to the earth?
Corruption » Physical decomposition » After death
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until thou return to the ground: for out of it wast thou taken. For dust thou art; and unto dust shalt thou return.
and the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit return unto God who gave it.
For thou wilt not leave my soul to Sheol, neither wilt thou allow thy Holy One to see corruption.
for thou wilt not leave my soul in hades, nor wilt thou give thy gracious one to see corruption.
Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled; thou takest away their breath, they expire and return to their dust.
I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; The bars of the earth closed upon me for ever: But thou hast brought up my life from the pit, O Jehovah my God.
he, seeing it before, spoke concerning the resurrection of the Christ, that neither has he been left in hades nor his flesh seen corruption.
But that he raised him from among the dead, no more to return to corruption, he spoke thus: I will give to you the faithful mercies of David. Wherefore also he says in another, Thou wilt not suffer thy gracious one to see corruption. For David indeed, having in his own generation ministered to the will of God, fell asleep, and was added to his fathers and saw corruption. read more.
But he whom God raised up did not see corruption.
But he whom God raised up did not see corruption.
Thus also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruptibility.
But this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit God's kingdom, nor does corruption inherit incorruptibility.
Dust » Man made from
And Jehovah Elohim formed Man, 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 shalt thou eat bread, until thou return to the ground: for out of it wast thou taken. For dust thou art; and unto dust shalt thou return.
and the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit return unto God who gave it.
For himself knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.
And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have ventured to speak unto the Lord; I, who am dust and ashes.
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as clay, and wilt bring me into dust again.
Man » Mortal
And forasmuch as it is the portion of men once to die, and after this judgment;
For since by man came death, by man also resurrection of those that are dead. For as in the Adam all die, thus also in the Christ all shall be made alive.
Shall mortal man be more just than +God? Shall a man be purer than his Maker?
The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walketh in darkness; but I myself also perceived that one event happeneth to them all. And I said in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool so will it happen even to me; and why was I then so wise? Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity.