Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Animals » Nature of
Be you not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, else they come not near unto you.
Nevertheless man being in honor abides not: he is like the beasts that perish.
I said in my heart concerning the condition of the sons of men, that God might reveal them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts. For that which befalls the sons of men befalls beasts; the same thing befalls them: as the one dies, so dies the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man has no advantage over a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. read more.
Who knows the spirit of man that goes upward, and the spirit of the beast that goes downward to the earth?
Who knows the spirit of man that goes upward, and the spirit of the beast that goes downward to the earth?
Corruption » Physical decomposition » After death
In the sweat of your face shall you eat bread, till you return unto the ground; for out of it were you taken: for dust you are, and unto dust shall you return.
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
I have said to corruption, You are my father: to the worm, You are my mother, and my sister.
For you will not leave my soul in sheol; neither will you allow your Holy One to see corruption.
Because you will not leave my soul in hades, neither will you allow your Holy One to see corruption.
You hide your face, they are troubled: you take away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
I went down to the foundations of the mountains; the earth with her bars closed about me forever: yet have you brought up my life from the pit, O LORD my God.
He seeing this before spoke of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hades, neither his flesh did see corruption.
And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said in this way, I will give you the sure mercies of David. Therefore he says also in another psalm, You shall not allow your Holy One to see corruption. For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell asleep, and was laid with his fathers, and saw corruption: read more.
But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption.
But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption.
So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.
Dust » Man made from
And the 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 your face shall you eat bread, till you return unto the ground; for out of it were you taken: for dust you are, and unto dust shall you return.
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto 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 unto the Lord, who am but dust and ashes:
Remember, I beseech you, that you have made me as the clay; and will you bring me into dust again?
Man » Mortal
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all 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; but the fool walks in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one fate happens to them all. Then said I in my heart, As it happens to the fool, so it happens even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.