114 Bible Verses about man

"Furthermore, can anyone understand cloud patterns, or the thundering in his pavilion?

Do you know how God ordains them, and makes his lightning to flash throughout his clouds?

Do you understand his wondrous work of balancing the clouds, the one whose knowledge is perfect,

"Can you call out to the clouds, so that abundant water drenches you?

Who has the wisdom to be able to count the clouds, or to empty the water jars of heaven,

Who has the wisdom to be able to count the clouds, or to empty the water jars of heaven,

Then God said, "Let us make mankind in our image, to be like us. Let them be masters over the fish in the ocean, the birds that fly, the livestock, everything that crawls on the earth, and over the earth itself!"

The highest heavens belong to the LORD, but he gave the earth to human beings.

You will eat food by the sweat of your brow until you're buried in the ground, because you were taken from it. You're made from dust and you'll return to dust."

When they stop breathing, they return to the ground; on that very day their plans evaporate!

So the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground, breathed life into his lungs, and the man became a living being.

For he knows how we were formed, aware that we were made from dust.

The first man came from the dust of the earth; the second man came from heaven. Those who are made of the dust are like the man from the dust; those who are heavenly are like the man who is from heaven.

Their destiny is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on worldly things.

He told the man, "Because you have listened to what your wife said, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, "You must not eat from it,' cursed is the ground because of you. You'll eat from it through pain-filled labor for the rest of your life.

Nor can they die anymore, because they are like the angels and, since they share in the resurrection, are God's children.

Indeed, everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe that?"

We know that if the earthly tent we live in is torn down, we have a building in heaven that comes from God, an eternal house not built by human hands.

Now, however, that grace has been revealed through the coming of our Savior the Messiah Jesus, who has destroyed death and through the gospel has brought life and release from death into full view.

Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up in the clouds together with them to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.

Therefore, if anyone is in the Messiah, he is a new creation. Old things have disappeared, and look! all things have become new!

For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision matters. Rather, what matters is being a new creation.

Therefore, through baptism we were buried with him into his death so that, just as the Messiah was raised from the dead by the Father's glory, we too may live an entirely new life.

He rendered the Law inoperative, along with its commandments and regulations, thus creating in himself one new humanity from the two, thereby making peace,

and have clothed yourselves with the new nature, which is being renewed in full knowledge, consistent with the image of the one who created it.

But humanity cannot last, despite its conceit; it will pass away just like the animals.

David again took an oath: "Your father certainly knows that I've found favor with you, and so he told himself, "Jonathan must not know this so he won't be upset.' But as certainly as the LORD is alive and living, and as certainly as I'm alive and living, too, there is only a step between me and death."

My heart pounds, my strength fails me, even the gleam in my eye is gone.

For he remembered that they were only flesh, a passing wind that doesn't return.

For he knows how we were formed, aware that we were made from dust.

So the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground, breathed life into his lungs, and the man became a living being.

Do we not have one father? Has not one God created us? Why does each of us act deceitfully, each man against his own brother, to profane the covenant of our ancestors?

Then God said, "Let us make mankind in our image, to be like us. Let them be masters over the fish in the ocean, the birds that fly, the livestock, everything that crawls on the earth, and over the earth itself!"

"The spirit of God fashioned me; and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

Creating them male and female, he blessed them and called them humans when he created them.

Aren't the Abana and Pharpar rivers in Damascus better than all of the water in Israel? Couldn't I just bathe in them and become clean?" So he turned away and left, filled with anger.

In response, Asa flew into a rage and locked up the seer in stocks in the palace prison because of what Hanani had told him. Asa also tortured some of the people of Israel at that time.

When Haman saw that Mordecai would not kneel and bow down to him, he flew into a rage.

All the people in the synagogue became furious when they heard this.

but he did not look favorably upon Cain and his offering.

Look at the birds in the sky. They don't plant or harvest or gather food into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. You are more valuable than they are, aren't you?

For all kinds of animals, birds, reptiles, and sea creatures can be or have been tamed by humans,

Then God said, "Let us make mankind in our image, to be like us. Let them be masters over the fish in the ocean, the birds that fly, the livestock, everything that crawls on the earth, and over the earth itself!"

All the living creatures of the earth will be filled with fear and terror of you from now on, including all the creatures that fly in the sky, everything that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the ocean. They've been assigned to live under your dominion.

You gave him dominion over the work of your hands, you put all things under his feet:

Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with his own blood he went into the Most Holy Place once for all and secured our eternal redemption.

The Messiah redeemed us from the curse of the Law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written, "A curse on everyone who is hung on a tree!"

They sang a new song: "You are worthy to take the scroll and open its seals, because you were slaughtered. With your blood you purchased people for God from every tribe, language, people, and nation.

He gave himself for us to set us free from every wrong and to cleanse us so that we could be his special people who are enthusiastic about doing good deeds.

By his grace they are justified freely through the redemption that is in the Messiah Jesus,

After that, he was seen by more than 500 brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have died.

Then the LORD told Moses, "Look! You are about to join your ancestors. Afterwards, this people will rebel and commit prostitution with the foreign gods of the land that they are about to enter to possess. They will abandon me and break my covenant that I made with them.

Why haven't you pardoned my transgression and taken away my iniquity? Now I'm about to lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I won't be around!"

Many of those who are sleeping in the dust of the earth will awaken some to life everlasting, and some to disgrace and everlasting contempt.

He entered the house and asked them, "Why all this confusion and crying? The child isn't dead. She's sleeping."

They set out to go down to Egypt, without asking my advice; taking refuge in Pharaoh's protection, and seeking shelter in Egypt's shadow.

"How terrible it will be for those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in the chariot, because there are so many, and in charioteers, because they are so strong but do not look to the Holy One of Israel or seek the LORD!

When Ephraim examined his illness and Judah his injury, then Ephraim went to Assyria, and inquired of the great king; but he could not cure you nor heal your injury.

"Stop trusting in human beings, whose life breath is in their nostrils, for what are they really worth?"

This is what the LORD says: "Cursed is the person who trusts in mankind, who makes flesh his strength, and whose heart turns away from the LORD.

Just as sin entered the world through one man, and death resulted from sin, therefore everyone dies, because everyone has sinned.

Just as no human being has control over the wind to restrain it, so also no human being has control over the day of his death. Just as no one is discharged during war, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.

After all, even though we all die, and we're all like water being spilled on the ground that cannot be recovered, nevertheless God doesn't take away life, but carries out his plans so as not to cast away permanently from him those who are presently estranged.

I know that you're about to kill me, so I'm about to go to the house that's appointed for all the living."

Indeed, he will see wise people die; the stupid and the senseless will meet their doom and leave their wealth to others.

My body and mind may fail, but God is my strength and my portion forever.

If our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our hearts and knows everything.

When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, he told himself, "I will never again curse the land because of human beings even though human inclinations remain evil from youth nor will I destroy every living being ever again, as I've done.

"The heart is more deceitful than anything. It is incurable who can know it? I am the LORD who searches the heart, who tests the inner depths to give to each person according to what he deserves, according to the fruit of his deeds.

Before a man's downfall, his mind is arrogant, but humility precedes honor.

The glory of Ephraim will fly away like a bird no birth, no pregnancy, not even a conception.

For "All human life is like grass, and all its glory is like a flower in the grass. The grass dries up and the flower drops off,

When he dies, he will not be able to take it all with him his possessions will not follow him to the grave,

Therefore Sheol's appetite has grown; it has opened its mouth beyond limit. Jerusalem's nobility and her multitudes will go there, along with her brawlers and whoever is reveling within her.

For this is what the LORD is saying to me: "Within three years, according to the years of a contract worker, the pomp of Kedar will come to an end.

But God told him, "You fool! This very night your life will be demanded back from you. Now who will get the things you've accumulated?'

"They'll die of deadly diseases. People won't mourn for them, nor will they be buried. They'll be dung on the surface of the ground, and they'll come to an end with the sword and with famine. Their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and the animals of the land."

"I don't take delight in the death of the wicked, do I?" asks the Lord GOD. "Shouldn't I rather delight when he turns from his wicked ways and lives?

But then he passed away; in fact, he simply was not there. When I looked for him, he could not be found.

He will die for lack of discipline, and he goes astray because of his great folly.

For "All human life is like grass, and all its glory is like a flower in the grass. The grass dries up and the flower drops off,

"I yes, I am the one who comforts you. Who are you, that you are so afraid of humans who will die, descendants of mere men, who have been made like grass?

A person's life is like grass it blossoms like wild flowers, but when the wind blows through it, it withers away and no one remembers where it was.

A voice says, "Cry out!" So I asked, "What am I to cry out?" "All humanity is grass, and all its loyalty is like the flowers of the field. Grass withers and flowers fade away when the LORD's breath blows on them; surely the people are like grass.

You will sweep them away while they are asleep by morning they are like growing grass. In the morning it blossoms and is renewed, but toward evening, it fades and withers.

From one man he made every nation of humanity to live all over the earth, fixing the seasons of the year and the national boundaries within which they live,

"But you are not to be called "Rabbi,' because you have only one teacher, and all of you are brothers.

The rich and the poor have this in common the LORD created both of them.

He told them, "You understand how wrong it is for a Jew to associate or visit with unbelievers. But God has shown me that I should stop calling anyone common or unclean,

Because all of you are one in the Messiah Jesus, a person is no longer a Jew or a Greek, a slave or a free person, a male or a female.

After saying this, Jesus was deeply troubled in spirit and declared solemnly, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, one of you is going to betray me!"

"He was despised and rejected by others, and a man of sorrows, intimately familiar with suffering; and like one from whom people hide their faces; and we despised him and did not value him.

Then he looked up to heaven, sighed, and told him, "Ephphatha," that is, "Be opened!"

He sighed deeply in his spirit and remarked, "Why do those living today demand a sign? I tell all of you with certainty, no sign will be given to this generation."

When he came closer and saw the city, he began to grieve over it:

For if you live according to human nature, you are going to die, but if by the Spirit you continuously put to death the activities of the body, you will live.

The person who sows through human means will harvest decay from human means, but the person who sows in the Spirit will harvest eternal life from the Spirit.

For everything that is in the world the desire for fleshly gratification, the desire for possessions, and worldly arrogance is not from the Father but is from the world.

For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but I cannot carry it out.

Thank God through Jesus the Messiah, our Lord, because with my mind I myself can serve the Law of God, even while with my human nature I serve the law of sin.

Into your hands I commit my spirit; for you have redeemed me, LORD God of truth.

Do not grieve the Holy Spirit, by whom you were marked with a seal for the day of redemption.

How can a young man keep his behavior pure? By guarding it in accordance with your word.

Israel, hope in the LORD! For with the LORD there is gracious love, along with abundant redemption.

But now this is what the LORD says, the one who created you, Jacob, the one who formed you, Israel: "Do not be afraid, because I've redeemed you. I've called you by name; you are mine.

LORD, I know that a person's life is not his to control, nor does a person establish his way in life.

Indeed, what a man does is always in the LORD's presence, and he weighs all his paths.

Every man's lifestyle is proper in his own view, but the LORD weighs the heart.

Everything a person does seems pure in his own opinion, but the LORD weighs intentions.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous person his thoughts. Let him return to the LORD, So he'll have mercy upon him, and to our God, for he'll pardon abundantly. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways," declares the LORD. "For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

"But you are not to be called "Rabbi,' because you have only one teacher, and all of you are brothers.

The rich and the poor have this in common the LORD created both of them.

There is no difference between Jew and Greek, because they all have the same Lord, who gives richly to all who call on him.

He told them, "You understand how wrong it is for a Jew to associate or visit with unbelievers. But God has shown me that I should stop calling anyone common or unclean,

Because all of you are one in the Messiah Jesus, a person is no longer a Jew or a Greek, a slave or a free person, a male or a female.

"But you are not to be called "Rabbi,' because you have only one teacher, and all of you are brothers.

The rich and the poor have this in common the LORD created both of them.

There is no difference between Jew and Greek, because they all have the same Lord, who gives richly to all who call on him.

He told them, "You understand how wrong it is for a Jew to associate or visit with unbelievers. But God has shown me that I should stop calling anyone common or unclean,

Because all of you are one in the Messiah Jesus, a person is no longer a Jew or a Greek, a slave or a free person, a male or a female.

When I look at the heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you established what is man that you take notice of him, or the son of man that you pay attention to him?

"Where were you when I laid the foundation of my earth? Tell me, since you're so informed!

"What is mankind, that he can be blameless? Or does being born of a woman mean he'll be in the right?

"Indeed, since he doesn't trust his servants, since he charges his angels with error, how much less confidence does he have in those who dwell in houses of clay; who were formed from a foundation in dust and can perish like a moth?

"Can a human being be useful to God, since he, who is wise, is sufficient to himself? Will it please the Almighty if you are innocent, or does he profit if your life is blameless? Will he acquit you just because you fear him, and render a verdict on your behalf? read more.
Your wickedness is great, isn't it? There's no limit to your iniquity, is there?

"Whoever sheds human blood, by a human his own blood is to be shed; because God made human beings in his own image.

This is the historical record of Adam's generations. When God created mankind, he made them in his own likeness.

With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse those who are made in God's likeness.

Then God said, "Let us make mankind in our image, to be like us. Let them be masters over the fish in the ocean, the birds that fly, the livestock, everything that crawls on the earth, and over the earth itself!" So God created mankind in his own image; in his own image God created them; he created them male and female.

A man should not cover his head, because he exists as God's image and glory. But the woman is man's glory.

"Whoever sheds human blood, by a human his own blood is to be shed; because God made human beings in his own image.

This is the historical record of Adam's generations. When God created mankind, he made them in his own likeness.

With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse those who are made in God's likeness.

Then God said, "Let us make mankind in our image, to be like us. Let them be masters over the fish in the ocean, the birds that fly, the livestock, everything that crawls on the earth, and over the earth itself!" So God created mankind in his own image; in his own image God created them; he created them male and female.

A man should not cover his head, because he exists as God's image and glory. But the woman is man's glory.

But as for you, O LORD, you are our Father; and we are clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hands.

A potter has the right to do what he wants to with his clay, doesn't he? He can make something for a special occasion or something for ordinary use from the same lump of clay.

"Woe to the one who quarrels with his makers, a mere potsherd with the potsherds of the earth! Woe to the one who says to the one forming him, "What are you making?' or "Your work has no human hands?'!

"Israel, can't I deal with you like this potter?" declares the LORD. "Look, Israel, like clay in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand.

He has turned the tables on you as if the potter were thought to be like heat. Can what is made say of the one who made it, "He did not make me?' Or can what is formed say of the ones who formed it, "He has no skill?'

Look at the birds in the sky. They don't plant or harvest or gather food into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. You are more valuable than they are, aren't you?

You gave him dominion over the work of your hands, you put all things under his feet:

God blessed the humans by saying to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it! Be masters over the fish in the ocean, the birds that fly, and every living thing that crawls on the earth!"

"Indeed I said, "You are gods, and all of you are sons of the Most High.

How much more is a human being worth than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on Sabbath days."

then man's dust will go back to the earth, returning to what it was, and the spirit will return to the God who gave it.

You know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God, don't you? You do not belong to yourselves, because you were bought for a price. Therefore, glorify God with your bodies.

A person's spirit is the lamp of the LORD; it searches throughout one's innermost being.

A man's spirit can sustain him during his illness, but who can bear a crushed spirit?

Now I've given all these lands to my servant, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and I've even given him the wild animals to serve him.

Then God said, "Let us make mankind in our image, to be like us. Let them be masters over the fish in the ocean, the birds that fly, the livestock, everything that crawls on the earth, and over the earth itself!"

All the living creatures of the earth will be filled with fear and terror of you from now on, including all the creatures that fly in the sky, everything that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the ocean. They've been assigned to live under your dominion. "Every living, moving creature will be food for you. Just as I gave you green plants before, so now you have everything.

God blessed the humans by saying to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it! Be masters over the fish in the ocean, the birds that fly, and every living thing that crawls on the earth!"

After the LORD God formed from the ground every wild animal and every bird that flies, he brought each of them to the man to see what he would call it. Whatever the man called each living creature became its name. The man gave names to all the livestock, to the birds that fly, and to each of earth's animals, but there was not found a strength corresponding to him,

and from Jesus the Messiah, the witness, the faithful one, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. To the one who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood

because you were bought for a price. Therefore, glorify God with your bodies.

For you know that it was not with perishable things like silver or gold that you have been ransomed from the worthless way of life handed down to you by your ancestors, but with the precious blood of the Messiah, like that of a lamb without blemish or defect.

"For this is how God loved the world: He gave his unique Son so that everyone who believes in him would not be lost but have eternal life.

and from Jesus the Messiah, the witness, the faithful one, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. To the one who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood

because you were bought for a price. Therefore, glorify God with your bodies.

For you know that it was not with perishable things like silver or gold that you have been ransomed from the worthless way of life handed down to you by your ancestors, but with the precious blood of the Messiah, like that of a lamb without blemish or defect.

"For this is how God loved the world: He gave his unique Son so that everyone who believes in him would not be lost but have eternal life.

For all kinds of animals, birds, reptiles, and sea creatures can be or have been tamed by humans,

Then God said, "Let us make mankind in our image, to be like us. Let them be masters over the fish in the ocean, the birds that fly, the livestock, everything that crawls on the earth, and over the earth itself!"

All the living creatures of the earth will be filled with fear and terror of you from now on, including all the creatures that fly in the sky, everything that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the ocean. They've been assigned to live under your dominion.

You gave him dominion over the work of your hands, you put all things under his feet:

and put everything under his feet."

I gave you milk to drink, not solid food, because you weren't ready for it. And you're still not ready!

"I still have a lot to say to you, but you cannot bear it now.

When he went back to the disciples, he found them asleep. He told Peter, "So, you men couldn't stay awake with me for one hour, could you?

I cannot carry this whole nation! The burden is too heavy for me!

For God's nonsense is wiser than human wisdom, and God's weakness is stronger than human strength.

Little children, you belong to God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous person his thoughts. Let him return to the LORD, So he'll have mercy upon him, and to our God, for he'll pardon abundantly. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways," declares the LORD. "For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

"You aren't right about this; My response is that God is greater than human beings.

"Whoever sheds human blood, by a human his own blood is to be shed; because God made human beings in his own image.

With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse those who are made in God's likeness.

Those who are made of the dust are like the man from the dust; those who are heavenly are like the man who is from heaven. Just as we have borne the likeness of the man who was made from dust, we will also bear the likeness of the man from heaven.

Then God said, "Let us make mankind in our image, to be like us. Let them be masters over the fish in the ocean, the birds that fly, the livestock, everything that crawls on the earth, and over the earth itself!" So God created mankind in his own image; in his own image God created them; he created them male and female.

A man should not cover his head, because he exists as God's image and glory. But the woman is man's glory.

Then God said, "Let us make mankind in our image, to be like us. Let them be masters over the fish in the ocean, the birds that fly, the livestock, everything that crawls on the earth, and over the earth itself!" So God created mankind in his own image; in his own image God created them; he created them male and female. God blessed the humans by saying to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it! Be masters over the fish in the ocean, the birds that fly, and every living thing that crawls on the earth!"

God blessed Noah and his sons and ordered them, "Be productive, multiply, and fill the earth. All the living creatures of the earth will be filled with fear and terror of you from now on, including all the creatures that fly in the sky, everything that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the ocean. They've been assigned to live under your dominion.

what is man that you take notice of him, or the son of man that you pay attention to him? You made him a little less than divine, but you crowned him with glory and honor. You gave him dominion over the work of your hands, you put all things under his feet: read more.
Sheep and cattle all of them, wild creatures of the field, birds in the sky, fish in the sea whatever moves through the currents of the oceans.

Instead, someone has declared somewhere, "What is man that you should remember him, or the son of man that you should care for him? You made him a little lower than the angels, yet you crowned him with glory and honor and put everything under his feet."

Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man, but later his mouth will be full of gravel.

A man's spirit can sustain him during his illness, but who can bear a crushed spirit?

Is there anyone who can understand his own thoughts except his own inner spirit? In the same way, no one can know the thoughts of God except God's Spirit.

All of them go to one place: all of them originate from dust, and all of them return to dust.

Indeed, just as people are destined to die once and after that to be judged,

For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead also came through a man. For as in Adam all die, so also in the Messiah will all be made alive.

"Can a mortal person be more righteous than God? Or can the purity of the valiant exceed that of his maker?'

The wise use their eyes, but the fool walks in darkness. I also perceived that the same outcome affects them all. Then I told myself, "Whatever happens to the fool will happen also to me. Therefore what's the point in being so wise?" And I told myself that this also is pointless.

Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of his wife as the Messiah is the head of the church. It is he who is the Savior of the body.

but you belong to the Messiah, and the Messiah belongs to God.

I praise you for remembering everything I told you and for holding to the traditions that I passed on to you. Now I want you to realize that the Messiah is the head of every man, and man is the head of the woman, and God is the head of the Messiah.

because jealousy incites a strong man's rage, and he will show no mercy when it's time for revenge.

Saul was very angry and he did not like what the women sang. He told himself, "They have attributed tens of thousands to David, but to me they have attributed thousands. What else can he have but the kingdom?"

Not long afterward, all the men of Israel started coming to the king, complaining to him, "Why did our relatives in Judah's army sneak you away, taking the king and his household over the Jordan River, along with David's army?"

How can a human being become right with God? How can a human being be pure?

Therefore, God will not justify any human being by means of the actions prescribed by the Law, for through the Law comes the full knowledge of sin.

Do not enter into judgment with your servant, for no living person is righteous in your sight.

"Indeed, I'm fully aware that this is so, but how can a person become right with God?

Look at the birds in the sky. They don't plant or harvest or gather food into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. You are more valuable than they are, aren't you?

So stop being afraid. You are worth more than a bunch of sparrows."

How much more is a human being worth than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on Sabbath days."

But as for you, O LORD, you are our Father; and we are clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hands.

"Arise and go down to the potter's house, and there I'll allow you to hear my words."

"Israel, can't I deal with you like this potter?" declares the LORD. "Look, Israel, like clay in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand.

He humbled you, causing you to be hungry, yet he fed you with manna that neither you nor your ancestors had known, in order to teach you that human beings are not to live by food alone instead human beings are to live by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the LORD.

But he answered, "It is written, "One must not live on bread alone, but on every word coming out of the mouth of God.'"

Jesus answered him, "It is written, "One must not live on bread alone, but on every word of God.'"

Therefore, since the children have flesh and blood, he himself also shared the same things, so that by his death he might destroy the one who has the power of death (that is, the Devil)

The Word became flesh and lived among us. We gazed on his glory, the kind of glory that belongs to the Father's unique Son, who is full of grace and truth.

For it is clear that he did not come to help angels. No, he came to help Abraham's descendants,

But God told him, "You fool! This very night your life will be demanded back from you. Now who will get the things you've accumulated?'

strengthening the disciples and encouraging them to continue in the faith. "We must endure many hardships," they said, "to get into the kingdom of God."

So then, those who suffer according to God's will should entrust their souls to their faithful Creator and continue to do what is good.

Regarding your former way of life, you were taught to strip off your old nature, which is being ruined by its deceptive desires, to be renewed in your mental attitude, and to clothe yourselves with the new nature, which was created according to God's image in righteousness and true holiness.

Therefore, if you have been raised with the Messiah, keep focusing on the things that are above, where the Messiah is seated at the right hand of God. Keep your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on the earth. For you have died, and your life has been safely guarded by the Messiah in God. read more.
When the Messiah, who is your life, is revealed, then you, too, will be revealed with him in glory. So put to death your worldly impulses: sexual sin, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed (which is idolatry). It is because of these things that the wrath of God is coming on those who are disobedient. You used to behave like them as you lived among them. But now you must also get rid of anger, wrath, malice, slander, obscene speech, and all such sins. Do not lie to one another, for you have stripped off the old nature with its practices and have clothed yourselves with the new nature, which is being renewed in full knowledge, consistent with the image of the one who created it.

For what does a person gain from everything that he accomplishes and from his inner life struggles that he undergoes while working on earth?

Then God said, "Let us make mankind in our image, to be like us. Let them be masters over the fish in the ocean, the birds that fly, the livestock, everything that crawls on the earth, and over the earth itself!" So God created mankind in his own image; in his own image God created them; he created them male and female.

A man should not cover his head, because he exists as God's image and glory. But the woman is man's glory.

So the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground, breathed life into his lungs, and the man became a living being.

"The spirit of God fashioned me; and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

Everything that breathed and everything that had lived on dry land died.

"In addition to everything that I have supplied for the Temple, it pleases me to provide my own treasure of gold and silver, so because of my love for the Temple of my God I hereby give to the Temple of my God the following:

Keep your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on the earth.

Then Pharaoh's senior security advisor spoke up. "Maybe I should make a confession.

and by which you are also being saved if you hold firmly to the message I proclaimed to you unless, of course, your faith was worthless.

because no prophecy ever originated through a human decision. Instead, men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

For if I preach voluntarily, I get a reward, but if I am unwilling to do it, I am still entrusted with that obligation.

So the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground, breathed life into his lungs, and the man became a living being.

This, indeed, is what is written: "The first man, Adam, became a living being." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

So the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground, breathed life into his lungs, and the man became a living being.

This, indeed, is what is written: "The first man, Adam, became a living being." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of their ignorance and hardness of heart.

Then, with the eyes of your hearts enlightened, you will know the confidence that is produced by God having called you, the rich glory that is his inheritance among the saints,

You made him a little less than divine, but you crowned him with glory and honor.

You made him a little lower than the angels, yet you crowned him with glory and honor and put everything under his feet."

"Indeed, since he doesn't trust his servants, since he charges his angels with error, how much less confidence does he have in those who dwell in houses of clay; who were formed from a foundation in dust and can perish like a moth? They are defeated between morning and evening; they perish forever and no one notices! read more.
Their wealth perishes with them, doesn't it? They die, and do so without having wisdom, don't they?"

LORD, I know that a person's life is not his to control, nor does a person establish his way in life.

A man's steps are directed by the LORD; how then can anyone understand his own way?

The LORD made everything answerable to him, including the wicked at the time of trouble.

"You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory, honor, and power, because you created all things; they came into existence and were created because of your will."

He has walled me in so I cannot escape; he placed heavy chains on me.

You encircle me from back to front, placing your hand upon me.

Just as no human being has control over the wind to restrain it, so also no human being has control over the day of his death. Just as no one is discharged during war, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.

We live for 70 years, or 80 years if we're healthy, yet even in the prime years there are troubles and sorrow. They pass by quickly and we fly away.

Indeed, what a man does is always in the LORD's presence, and he weighs all his paths.

A man's steps are directed by the LORD; how then can anyone understand his own way?

Then Job stood up, tore his robe, shaved his head, fell to the ground, bowed very low, and exclaimed: "I left my mother's womb naked, and I will return to God naked. The LORD has given, and the LORD has taken. May the name of the LORD be blessed."