'Man' in the Bible

Do you have a conviction? Keep it to yourself before God. The man who does not condemn himself by what he approves is blessed.

For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man that is in him? In the same way, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.

But the unbeliever does not welcome what comes from God’s Spirit, because it is foolishness to him; he is not able to understand it since it is evaluated spiritually.

It is widely reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and the kind of sexual immorality that is not even tolerated among the Gentiles—a man is living with his father’s wife.

Now in response to the matters you wrote about: “It is good for a man not to have relations with a woman.”

But because sexual immorality is so common, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband.

For he who is called by the Lord as a slave is the Lord’s freedman. Likewise he who is called as a free man is Christ’s slave.

Therefore I consider this to be good because of the present distress: It is fine for a man to remain as he is.

I want you to be without concerns. An unmarried man is concerned about the things of the Lord—how he may please the Lord.

But a married man is concerned about the things of the world—how he may please his wife—

But if any man thinks he is acting improperly toward his virgin, if she is past marriageable age, and so it must be, he can do what he wants. He is not sinning; they can get married.

But I want you to know that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of the woman, and God is the head of Christ.

Every man who prays or prophesies with something on his head dishonors his head.

A man, in fact, should not cover his head, because he is God’s image and glory, but woman is man’s glory.

For man did not come from woman, but woman came from man.

And man was not created for woman, but woman for man.

In the Lord, however, woman is not independent of man, and man is not independent of woman.

For just as woman came from man, so man comes through woman, and all things come from God.

Does not even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair it is a disgrace to him,

So a man should examine himself; in this way he should eat the bread and drink from the cup.

When I was a child,I spoke like a child,I thought like a child,I reasoned like a child.When I became a man,I put aside childish things.

For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead also comes through a man.

So it is written: The first man Adam became a living being; the last Adam became a life-giving Spirit.

The first man was from the earthand made of dust;the second man is from heaven.

Like the man made of dust,so are those who are made of dust;like the heavenly man,so are those who are heavenly.

And just as we have bornethe image of the man made of dust,we will also bearthe image of the heavenly man.

I know a man in Christ who was caught up into the third heaven 14 years ago. Whether he was in the body or out of the body, I don’t know, God knows.

I know that this man—whether in the body or out of the body I don’t know, God knows—

was caught up into paradise. He heard inexpressible words, which a man is not allowed to speak.

Paul, an apostle—not from men or by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised Him from the dead—

Again I testify to every man who gets himself circumcised that he is obligated to keep the entire law.

Don’t be deceived: God is not mocked. For whatever a man sows he will also reap,

He made of no effect the law consisting of commands and expressed in regulations, so that He might create in Himself one new man from the two, resulting in peace.

I pray that He may grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power in the inner man through His Spirit,

until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of God’s Son, growing into a mature man with a stature measured by Christ’s fullness.

You took off your former way of life, the old self that is corrupted by deceitful desires;

you put on the new self, the one created according to God’s likeness in righteousness and purity of the truth.

For this reason a man will leavehis father and motherand be joined to his wife,and the two will become one flesh.

Instead He emptied Himselfby assuming the form of a slave,taking on the likeness of men.And when He had come as a manin His external form,

Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old self with its practices

and have put on the new self. You are being renewed in knowledge according to the image of your Creator.

Therefore, the person who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who also gives you His Holy Spirit.

Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way. For that day will not come unless the apostasy comes first and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction.

one who was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and an arrogant man. But I received mercy because I acted out of ignorance in unbelief.

For there is one Godand one mediator between God and humanity,Christ Jesus, Himself human,

I do not allow a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; instead, she is to be silent.

Do not rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father, younger men as brothers,

But you, man of God, run from these things,and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith,love, endurance, and gentleness.

so that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

But when the kindness of God our Savior and His lovefor mankind appeared,

I appeal to you, instead, on the basis of love. I, Paul, as an elderly man and now also as a prisoner of Christ Jesus,

But one has somewhere testified:What is man that You remember him,or the son of man that You care for him?

Now consider how great this man was—even Abraham the patriarch gave a tenth of the plunder to him!

a minister of the sanctuary and the true tabernacle that was set up by the Lord and not man.

But this man, after offering one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God.

By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was approved as a righteous man, because God approved his gifts, and even though he is dead, he still speaks through his faith.

Therefore from one man—in fact, from one as good as dead—came offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven and as innumerable as the grains of sand by the seashore.

Therefore, we may boldly say:The Lord is my helper;I will not be afraid.What can man do to me?

An indecisive man is unstable in all his ways.

For the sun rises with its scorching heat and dries up the grass; its flower falls off, and its beautiful appearance is destroyed. In the same way, the rich man will wither away while pursuing his activities.

A man who endures trials is blessed, because when he passes the test he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love Him.

Because if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his own face in a mirror.

For he looks at himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.

For example, a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and dressed in fine clothes, and a poor man dressed in dirty clothes also comes in.

If you look with favor on the man wearing the fine clothes and say, “Sit here in a good place,” and yet you say to the poor man, “Stand over there,” or, “Sit here on the floor by my footstool,”

Yet you dishonored that poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you and drag you into the courts?

Foolish man! Are you willing to learn that faith without works is useless?

You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone.

for we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a mature man who is also able to control his whole body.

Every sea creature, reptile, bird, or animal is tamed and has been tamed by man,

but no man can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

You have condemned—you have murdered—the righteous man; he does not resist you.

Elijah was a man with a nature like ours; yet he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the land.

because no prophecy ever came by the will of man; instead, men spoke from God as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.

(for as he lived among them, that righteous man tormented himself day by day with the lawless deeds he saw and heard)—

and among the lampstands was One like the Son of Man, dressed in a long robe and with a gold sash wrapped around His chest.

When I saw Him, I fell at His feet like a dead man. He laid His right hand on me and said, “Don’t be afraid! I am the First and the Last,

The first living creature was like a lion; the second living creature was like a calf; the third living creature had a face like a man; and the fourth living creature was like a flying eagle.

They were not permitted to kill them but were to torment them for five months; their torment is like the torment caused by a scorpion when it strikes a man.

Here is wisdom: The one who has understanding must calculate the number of the beast, because it is the number of a man. His number is 666.

Then I looked, and there was a white cloud, and One like the Son of Man was seated on the cloud, with a gold crown on His head and a sharp sickle in His hand.

There were flashes of lightning and rumblings of thunder. And a severe earthquake occurred like no other since man has been on the earth—so great was the quake.