'Man' in the Bible

for it is his own supper of which each of you is in a hurry to partake, and one eats like a hungry man, while another has already drunk to excess.

But let a man examine himself, and, having done that, then let him eat the bread and drink from the cup.

to a third man, by means of the same Spirit, special faith; to another various gifts of healing, by means of the one Spirit;

When I was a child, I talked like a child, felt like a child, reasoned like a child: when I became a man, I put from me childish ways.

I should be right glad were you all to speak in 'tongues,' but yet more glad were you all to prophesy. And, in fact, the man who prophesies is superior to him who speaks in 'tongues,' except when the latter can interpret in order that the Church may get a blessing.

Therefore let a man who has the gift of tongues pray for the power of interpreting them.

Otherwise, if you bless God in spirit only, how shall he who is in the position of an ungifted man say the 'Amen' to your giving of thanks, when he does not know what your words mean?

If, on the other hand, every one is prophesying and an unbeliever or an ungifted man comes in, he is convicted by all and closely examined by all,

or if there is no interpreter, let the man with the gift be silent in the Church, speaking to himself and to God.

If any one deems himself to be a Prophet or a man with spiritual gifts, let him recognize as the Lord's command all that I am now writing to you.

For seeing that death came through man, through man comes also the resurrection of the dead.

Foolish man! the seed you yourself sow has no life given to it unless it first dies;

In the same way also it is written, "The first man Adam became a living animal"; the last Adam is a life-giving Spirit.

The first man is a man of earth, earthy; the second man is from Heaven.

When you forgive a man an offence I also forgive it; for in fact what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has always been for your sakes in the presence of Christ,

Therefore we are not cowards. Nay, even though our outward man is wasting away, yet our inward man is being renewed day by day.

Therefore for the future we know no one simply as a man. Even if we have known Christ as a man, yet now we do so no longer.

For, assuming the earnest willingness, the gift is acceptable according to whatever a man has, and not according to what he has not.

Is it outward appearances you look to? If any man is confident as regards himself that he specially belongs to Christ, let him consider again and reflect that just as he belongs to Christ, so also do we.

For it is not the man that commends himself who is really approved, but he whom the Lord commends.

I know a Christian man who fourteen years ago-- whether in the body I do not know, or out of the body I do not know; God knows--was caught up (this man of whom I am speaking)

And I know that this man-- whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know;

Paul, an Apostle sent not from men nor by any man, but by Jesus Christ and by God the Father, who raised Jesus from among the dead--

For I must tell you, brethren, that the Good News which was proclaimed by me is not such as man approves of.

For, in fact, it was not from man that I received or learnt it, but by a revelation from Jesus Christ.

know that it is not through obedience to Law that a man can be declared free from guilt, but only through faith in Jesus Christ. We have therefore believed in Christ Jesus, for the purpose of being declared free from guilt, through faith in Christ and not through obedience to Law. For through obedience to Law no human being shall be declared free from guilt.

Brethren, even a covenant made by a man--to borrow an illustration from daily life--when once formally sanctioned is not liable to be set aside or added to.

In Him the distinctions between Jew and Gentile, slave and free man, male and female, disappear; you are all one in Christ Jesus.

I once more protest to every man who receives circumcision that he is under obligation to obey the whole Law of Moses.

For my part I have strong confidence in you in the Lord that you will adopt my view of the matter. But the man--be he who he may--who is troubling you, will have to bear the full weight of the judgement to be pronounced on him.

For the entire Law has been obeyed when you have kept the single precept, which says, "You are to love your fellow man equally with yourself."

But let every man scrutinize his own conduct, and then he will find out, not with reference to another but with reference to himself, what he has to boast of.

For every man will have to carry his own load.

Do not deceive yourselves. God is not to be scoffed at. For whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

by setting aside the Law with its commandments, expressed, as they were, in definite decrees. His design was to unite the two sections of humanity in Himself so as to form one new man,

For this reason, laying aside falsehood, every one of you should speak the truth to his fellow man; for we are, as it were, parts of one another.

For never yet has a man hated his own body. On the contrary he feeds and cherishes it, just as Christ feeds and cherishes the Church;

"For this reason a man is to leave his father and his mother and be united to his wife, and the two shall be as one."

Yet I insist that among you also, each man is to love his own wife as much as he loves himself, and let a married woman see to it that she treats her husband with respect.

With right good will, be faithful to your duty as service rendered to the Lord and not to man.

You well know that whatever right thing any one does, he will receive a requital for it from the Lord, whether he is a slave or a free man.

Nay, He stripped Himself of His glory, and took on Him the nature of a bondservant by becoming a man like other men.

In that new creation there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free man, but Christ is everything and is in all of us.

The man who perpetrates a wrong will find the wrong repaid to him; and with God there are no merely earthly distinctions.

Let your language be always seasoned with the salt of grace, so that you may know how to give every man a fitting answer.

that each man among you shall know how to procure a wife who shall be his own in purity and honour;

Therefore a defiant spirit in such a case provokes not man but God, who puts His Holy Spirit into your hearts.

Let no one in any way deceive you, for that day cannot come without the coming of the apostasy first, and the appearing of the man of sin, the son of perdition, who sets himself against,

For lawlessness is already at work in secret; but only until the man who is now exercising a restraining influence is removed,

For even when we were with you, we laid down this rule for you: "If a man does not choose to work, neither shall he eat."

and if any one refuses to obey these our written instructions, mark that man and hold no communication with him--so that he may be made to feel ashamed.

Now we know that the Law is good, if a man uses it in the way it should be used,

and remembers that a law is not enacted to control a righteous man, but for the lawless and rebellious, the irreligious and sinful, the godless and profane--for those who strike their fathers or their mothers, for murderers,

For there is but one God and but one Mediator between God and men--Christ Jesus, Himself man;

I do not permit a woman to teach, nor have authority over a man, but she must remain silent.

A minister then must be a man of irreproachable character, true to his one wife, temperate, sober-minded, well-behaved, hospitable to strangers, and with a gift for teaching;

(If a man does not know how to rule his own household, how shall he have the Church of God given into his care?)

Let no one think slightingly of you because you are a young man; but in speech, conduct, love, faith and purity, be an example for your fellow Christians to imitate.

Never administer a sharp reprimand to a man older than yourself; but entreat him as if he were your father, and the younger men as brothers;

But if a man makes no provision for those dependent on him, and especially for his own family, he has disowned the faith and is behaving worse than an unbeliever.

But you, O man of God, must flee from these things; and strive for uprightness, godliness, good faith, love, fortitude, and a forgiving temper.

who alone possesses immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, and whom no man has seen or can see. To Him be eternal honour and power! Amen.

If therefore a man keeps himself clear of these latter, he himself will be for specially honourable use, consecrated, fit for the Master's service, and fully equipped for every good work.

so that the man of God may himself be complete and may be perfectly equipped for every good work.

wherever there is a man of blameless life, true to his one wife, having children who are themselves believers and are free from every reproach of profligacy or of stubborn self-will.

For, as God's steward, a minister must be of blameless life, not over-fond of having his own way, not a man of a passionate temper nor a hard drinker, not given to blows nor greedy of gain,

But when the goodness of God our Saviour, and His love to man, dawned upon us, not in consequence of things which we,

for, as you know, a man of that description has turned aside from the right path and is a sinner self-condemned.

But, as we know, a writer has solemnly said, "How poor a creature is man, and yet Thou dost remember him, and a son of man, and yet Thou dost come to him!

Thou hast put everything in subjection under his feet." For this subjecting of the universe to man implies the leaving nothing not subject to him. But we do not as yet see the universe subject to him.

For this man, Melchizedek, King of Salem and priest of the Most High God--he who when Abraham was returning after defeating the kings met him and pronounced a blessing on him--

with no father or mother, and no record of ancestry: having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made a type of the Son of God--this man Melchizedek remains a priest for ever.

and ministers in the Holy place and in the true tabernacle which not man, but the Lord pitched.

But where there is no faith it is impossible truly to please Him; for the man who draws near to God must believe that there is a God and that He proves Himself a rewarder of those who earnestly try to find Him.

And thus there sprang from one man, and him practically dead, a nation like the stars of the sky in number, and like the sands on the sea shore which cannot be counted.

For he reckoned that God is even able to raise a man up from among the dead, and, figuratively speaking, it was from among the dead that he received Isaac again.

So that we fearlessly say, "The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid: what can man do to me?"

such a one is a man of two minds, undecided in every step he takes.

but a rich man should rejoice in being brought low, for like flowers among the herbage rich men will pass away.

But when a man is tempted, it is his own passions that carry him away and serve as a bait.

For if any one listens but does not obey, he is like a man who carefully looks at his own face in a mirror.

Although he has looked carefully at himself, he goes away, and has immediately forgotten the sort of man he is.

If a man thinks that he is scrupulously religious, although he is not curbing his tongue but is deceiving himself, his religious service is worthless.

My brethren, you must not make distinctions between one man and another while you are striving to maintain faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, who is our glory.

For suppose a man comes into one of your meetings wearing gold rings and fine clothes, and there also comes in a poor man wearing shabby clothes,

and you pay court to the one who wears the fine clothes, and say, "Sit here; this is a good place;" while to the poor man you say, "Stand there, or sit on the floor at my feet;"

But *you* have put dishonour upon the poor man. Yet is it not the rich who grind you down? Are not they the very people who drag you into the Law courts? --

If, however, you are keeping the Law as supreme, in obedience to the Commandment which says "You are to love your fellow man just as you love yourself," you are acting rightly.

But if you are making distinctions between one man and another, you are guilty of sin, and are convicted by the Law as offenders.

A man who has kept the Law as a whole, but has failed to keep some one command, has become guilty of violating all.

What good is it, my brethren, if a man professes to have faith, and yet his actions do not correspond? Can such faith save him?

You all see that it is because of actions that a man is pronounced righteous, and not simply because of faith.

For we often stumble and fall, all of us. If there is any one who never stumbles in speech, that man has reached maturity of character and is able to curb his whole nature.

So too with ships, great as they are, and often driven along by strong gales, yet they can be steered with a very small rudder in whichever direction the caprice of the man at the helm chooses.

But the tongue no man or woman is able to tame. It is an ever-busy mischief, and is full of deadly poison.

Which of you is a wise and well-instructed man? Let him prove it by a right life with conduct guided by a wisely teachable spirit.

Do not speak evil of one another, brethren. The man who speaks evil of a brother-man or judges his brother-man speaks evil of the Law and judges the Law. But if you judge the Law, you are no longer one who obeys the Law, but one who judges it.

The only real Lawgiver and Judge is He who is able to save or to destroy. Who are you to sit in judgement on your fellow man?

If, however, a man knows what it is right to do and yet does not do it, he commits a sin.

You have condemned--you have murdered-- the righteous man: he offers no resistance.