'Human' in the Bible

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

Their worship of me is empty, because they teach human rules as doctrines.'"

But Jesus turned and told Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You are an offense to me, because you are not thinking God's thoughts but human thoughts!"

While they were gathering together in Galilee, Jesus told them, "The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into human hands.

Their worship of me is worthless, because they teach human rules as doctrines.'

You abandon the commandment of God and hold to human tradition."

because it's from within, from the human heart, that evil thoughts come, as well as sexual immorality, stealing, murder,

Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. But turning and looking at his disciples, Jesus rebuked Peter, saying, "Get behind me, Satan, because you're not thinking God's thoughts, but human thoughts!"

because he was teaching his disciples, "The Son of Man will be betrayed into human hands. They will kill him, but after being dead for three days he will be raised."

"We ourselves heard him say, "I will destroy this sanctuary made by human hands, and in three days I will build another one not made by human hands.'"

"Listen carefully to these words. The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into human hands."

I myself do not accept human testimony, but I am saying these things so that you may be saved.

"I do not accept human praise.

You're judging by human standards, but I'm not judging anyone.

For they loved the praise of human beings more than the praise of God.

When a woman is in labor she has pain, because her time has come. Yet when she has given birth to her child, she doesn't remember the agony anymore because of the joy of having brought a human being into the world.

"I'm telling you to keep away from these men for now. Leave them alone, because if this plan or movement is of human origin, it will fail.

However, the Most High does not live in buildings made by human hands. As the prophet says,

"Men, why are you doing this? We are merely human beings with natures like yours. We are telling you the good news so you'll turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them.

The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth. He doesn't live in shrines made by human hands,

You also see and hear that, not only in Ephesus, but almost all over Asia, this man Paul has won over and taken away a large crowd by telling them that gods made by human hands are not gods at all.

and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images that looked like mortal human beings, birds, four-footed animals, and reptiles.

There will be suffering and anguish for every human being who practices doing evil, for Jews first and for Greeks as well.

But if our unrighteousness serves to confirm God's righteousness, what can we say? God is not unrighteous when he vents his wrath on us, is he? (I am talking in human terms.)

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.

What, then, are we to say about Abraham, our human ancestor?

I am speaking in simple terms because of the frailty of your human nature. Just as you once offered the parts of your body as slaves to impurity and to greater and greater disobedience, so now, in the same way, you must offer the parts of your body as slaves to righteousness that leads to sanctification.

For while we were living according to our human nature, sinful passions were at work in our bodies by means of the Law, to bear fruit resulting in death.

For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am merely human, sold as a slave to sin.

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.

so that the righteous requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not live according to human nature but according to the Spirit.

To focus our minds on the human nature leads to death, but to focus our minds on the Spirit leads to life and peace.

That is why the mind that focuses on human nature is hostile toward God. It refuses to submit to the authority of God's Law because it is powerless to do so.

Indeed, those who are under the control of human nature cannot please God.

You, however, are not under the control of the human nature but under the control of the Spirit, since God's Spirit lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of the Messiah, he does not belong to him.

Consequently, brothers, we are not with respect to human nature, that is under an obligation to live according to human nature.

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.

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

Brothers, think about your own calling. Not many of you were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth.

so that your faith would not be based on human wisdom but on God's power.

We don't speak about these things with words taught us by human wisdom, but with words taught by the Spirit, as we explain spiritual things to spiritual people.

That's because you are still worldly. As long as there is jealousy and quarreling among you, you are worldly and living by human standards, aren't you?

For when one person says, "I follow Paul," and another person says, "I follow Apollos," you're following your own human nature, aren't you?

So let no one boast about human beings, since everything belongs to you,

It is a very small thing to me that I should be examined by you or by any human court. In fact, I don't even evaluate myself.

I am not saying this on human authority, am I? The Law says the same thing, doesn't it?

No temptation has overtaken you that is unusual for human beings. But God is faithful, and he will not allow you to be tempted beyond your strength. Instead, along with the temptation he will also provide a way out, so that you may be able to endure it.

Look at the Israelis from a human point of view. Those who eat the sacrifices share in what is on the altar, don't they?

If I have fought with wild animals in Ephesus from merely human motives, what do I get out of it? If the dead are not raised, "Let's eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."

You are demonstrating that you are the Messiah's letter, produced by our service, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.

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.

So then, from now on we do not think of anyone from a human point of view. Even if we did think of the Messiah from a human point of view, we don't think of him that way anymore.

was snatched away to Paradise and heard things that cannot be expressed in words, things that no human being has a right even to mention.

For I want you to know, brothers, that the gospel that was proclaimed by me is not of human origin.

to reveal his Son to me so that I might proclaim him among the gentiles, I did not confer with another human being at any time,

yet we know that a person is not justified by doing what the Law requires, but rather by the faithfulness of Jesus the Messiah. We, too, have believed in the Messiah Jesus so that we might be justified by the faithfulness of the Messiah and not by doing what the Law requires, for no human being will be justified by doing what the Law requires.

Now the slave woman's son was conceived through human means, while the free woman's son was conceived through divine promise.

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.

So then, remember that at one time you gentiles by birth were called "the uncircumcised" by those who called themselves "the circumcised." They underwent physical circumcision done by human hands.

which in previous generations was not made known to human beings as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to God's holy apostles and prophets. This is that secret:

For our struggle is not against human opponents, but against rulers, authorities, cosmic powers in the darkness around us, and evil spiritual forces in the heavenly realm.

Instead, poured out in emptiness, a servant's form did he possess, a mortal man becoming. In human form he chose to be,

See to it that no one enslaves you through philosophy and empty deceit according to human tradition, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to the Messiah,

In union with him you were also circumcised with a circumcision performed without human hands by stripping off the corrupt nature by the circumcision performed by the Messiah.

All of these things will be destroyed as they are used, because they are based on human commands and teachings.

Therefore, whoever rejects this instruction is not rejecting human authority but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit.

There is one God. There is also one mediator between God and human beings a human, the Messiah Jesus.

and who serves in the sanctuary, the true tent set up by the Lord and not by any human.

But when the Messiah came as a high priest of the good things that have come, he went through the greater and more perfect tent that was not made by human hands and that is not a part of this creation.

For the Messiah did not go into a sanctuary made by human hands that is merely a copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, to appear now in God's presence on our behalf.

For human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.

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,

For the Lord's sake submit yourselves to every human authority: whether to the king as supreme,

so that he can live the rest of his mortal life guided, not by human desires, but by the will of God.

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

But he was rebuked for his offense. A donkey that normally cannot talk spoke with a human voice and restrained the prophet's insanity.

This is how you can recognize God's Spirit: Every spirit who acknowledges that Jesus the Messiah has become human and remains so is from God.

If we accept human testimony, God's testimony is greater, because it is the testimony of God and because he has testified about his Son.

For many deceivers have gone out into the world. They refuse to acknowledge Jesus the Messiah as having become human. Any such person is a deceiver and an antichrist.

The first living creature was like a lion, the second living creature was like an ox, the third living creature had a face like a human, and the fourth living creature was like a flying eagle.

The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads were victor's crowns that looked like gold, and their faces were like human faces.

In this case wisdom is needed: Let the person who has understanding calculate the total of the beast, since it is a human multitude, and the sum of the multitude is 600, 60 and six.

cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, frankincense, wine, olive oil, flour, wheat, cattle, sheep, horses, chariots, and slaves (that is, human souls)

He also measured its wall. According to the human measurement that the angel was using, it was 144 cubits.