31 Bible Verses about Man's Relation To God

"For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether such a great thing as this has ever happened or was ever heard of.

then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.

In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created.

This is the book of the generations of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created.

"Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.

Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor.

The earth is the LORD's and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein,

rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the children of man.

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

I will not execute my burning anger; I will not again destroy Ephraim; for I am God and not a man, the Holy One in your midst, and I will not come in wrath.

"Behold, in this you are not right. I will answer you, for God is greater than man.

By his cunning he shall make deceit prosper under his hand, and in his own mind he shall become great. Without warning he shall destroy many. And he shall even rise up against the Prince of princes, and he shall be broken--but by no human hand.

For he is not a man, as I am, that I might answer him, that we should come to trial together.

'Can mortal man be in the right before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?

God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?

And also the Glory of Israel will not lie or have regret, for he is not a man, that he should have regret."

By no means! Let God be true though every one were a liar, as it is written, "That you may be justified in your words, and prevail when you are judged."

Will it be well with you when he searches you out? Or can you deceive him, as one deceives a man?

And when the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, "Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends word to me to cure a man of his leprosy? Only consider, and see how he is seeking a quarrel with me."

But Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible."

Jesus looked at them and said, "With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God."

But he said, "What is impossible with men is possible with God."

Arise, O LORD! Let not man prevail; let the nations be judged before you!

But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, "Why have you made me like this?"

But," he said, "you cannot see my face, for man shall not see me and live."

Paul, an apostle--not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead--

For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ.

And yet this was a small thing in your eyes, O Lord GOD. You have spoken also of your servant's house for a great while to come, and this is instruction for mankind, O Lord GOD!

"And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.