Thematic Bible: Of man


Thematic Bible





Then God said, “Let Us (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) make man in Our image, according to Our likeness [not physical, but a spiritual personality and moral likeness]; and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the cattle, and over the entire earth, and over everything that creeps and crawls on the earth.” Verse ConceptsImage Of GodAnimal LifeResponsibility, For God's WorldMan, Creation OfMan's DominionCaring For AnimalsCrawlingMan's FunctionAuthority Of PeopleMade Like GodCreation Of All MankindGod SpeakingRelation Of Animals To ManAnimals Having A SoulCreationGod's CreationFishThe SeaThe Beauty Of NatureBuilding RelationshipsSelf ImageTaking Care Of The Earthhumanitycrusadesmanimagedominion



“Indeed, ask now about the days that are past, [those days] which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and ask from one end of the heavens to the other. Has anything been done like this great thing, or has anything been heard like it? Verse ConceptsCreation Of All MankindMan's Relation To GodEnd Of Days


Yet You have made him a little lower than God,
And You have crowned him with glory and honor.
Verse ConceptsPeople Have HonourMan's Relation To GodSpiritual crownsBeauty And Self Worthcrownsmindfulnessdignityhonour



That you have forgotten the Lord your Maker,
Who stretched out the heavens
And laid the foundations of the earth,
That you continually tremble with fear all day long because of the rage of the oppressor,
As he takes aim to destroy?
And where is the rage of the oppressor?
Verse ConceptsFoundations




“I, even I, am He who comforts you.
Who are you that you are afraid of man who dies
And of a son of man who is made [as destructible] as grass,
Verse ConceptsGrassMan As GrassFear Of ManFear, Overcome ByThe Spirit Of GodGod Will ComfortLike GrassMere Men

As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourishes. For the wind passes over it and it is gone, and its place shall know it no more.

A voice says, Cry [prophesy]! And I said, What shall I cry? [The voice answered, Proclaim:] All flesh is as frail as grass, and all that makes it attractive [its kindness, its goodwill, its mercy from God, its glory and comeliness, however good] is transitory, like the flower of the field. The grass withers, the flower fades, when the breath of the Lord blows upon it; surely [all] the people are like grass.

You carry away [these disobedient people, doomed to die within forty years] as with a flood; they are as a sleep [vague and forgotten as soon as they are gone]. In the morning they are like grass which grows up -- " In the morning it flourishes and springs up; in the evening it is mown down and withers.


“Therefore their inhabitants had little power,
They were terrorized and shamed;
They were like the grass of the field and the green vegetation,
Like grass on the housetops and like a field [of grain] scorched before it is grown.
Verse ConceptsGrassPlantsTendernessMan As GrassScorchingLike GrassNo Strength Left

and the rich man is to glory in being humbled [by trials revealing human frailty, knowing true riches are found in the grace of God], for like the flower of the grass he will pass away. Verse ConceptsImperfection, Influence OfMortalityMan As GrassEnjoying ShameWealthy PeoplePrideBeing HumbleHumility And PrideMoney Managementhumbletrails



You made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands;
You have put all things under his feet,
Verse ConceptsFootstoolsFeetProperty, LandMan's DominionSubject To ChristAll Authority Has Been Given To JesusThe Environmentdominion



I said, “You are gods;
Indeed, all of you are sons of the Most High.
Verse ConceptsThe Most HighIsrael As Sons Of GodMen As GodsThe BibleChild Of God

How much more valuable then is a man than a sheep! So it is lawful and permissible to do good on the Sabbath.” Verse ConceptsValuesPrice Of PeopleDo Good!Intrinsic Importance Of ManThe Sabbath And ChristWhat Value Is Man?Self WorthWorthValue

The assembled people kept shouting, “It is the voice of a god and not of a man!” Verse ConceptsFlatteryVoicesMen As Godsworms

And the crowds, when they saw what Paul had done, raised their voices, shouting in the Lycaonian language, “The gods have come down to us in human form!” Verse ConceptsLanguages Mentioned In ScriptureBecoming Like PeopleLike MenMen As Gods

But they stood watching and expecting him to swell up or suddenly drop dead. But after they had waited a long time and had seen nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and began saying that he was a god. Verse ConceptsFalse GodsWaitingPossibility Of DeathPeople Changing Their MindsSwellingMen As Gods