Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Man » Man having authority over God’s creation
And God said - Let us make man in our image after our likeness - and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the bird of the heavens and over the tame-beast - and over all the land, and over every creeping thing, that creepeth on the land. And God created the man in his own image, In the image of God, created he him, - Male and female, created he, them. And God blessed them, and God said to them Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, - and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the bird of the heavens, and over every living thing that moveth on the land.
So God blessed Noah and his sons, - and said to them Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth; and let the fear of you and the dread of you be upon every living creature of the earth, and upon every bird of the heavens, - over everything that moveth along on the ground, and over all the fishes of the sea, - into your hand, have they been given.
What was weak man, that thou shouldst make mention of him? or the son of the earthborn, that thou shouldst set him in charge? That thou shouldst make him little less than messengers of God, with glory and honour, shouldst crown him? Shouldst give him dominion over the works of thy hands, - All things, shouldst have put under his feet: read more.
Sheep and oxen, all of them, - yea even the beasts of the field; The bird of the heavens, and the fishes of the sea, - the passer-by on the paths of the seas?
Sheep and oxen, all of them, - yea even the beasts of the field; The bird of the heavens, and the fishes of the sea, - the passer-by on the paths of the seas?
But one somewhere hath borne witness, saying - What is man, that thou shouldst make mention of him? Or the son of man, that thou shouldst put him in charge? Thou hast made him less, some little, than messengers, With glory and honour, hast thou crowned him, - And hast set him over the works of thy hands; All things, hast thou subjected beneath his feet. For, in subjecting, to himthe all things, nothing, left he, to him unsubjected; But now, not yet, do we see, to him, the all things subjected; -