Man

God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.’”

You made him a little lower than the angels. You crowned him with glory and honor.

You make him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet: — read the full passage →

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

The spirit of man is Yahweh’s lamp, searching all his innermost parts.

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.

I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.

Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

Yahweh looks from heaven. He sees all the sons of men. — read the full passage →

what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him?

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

Your hands have made me and formed me. Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.

For you have made him a little lower than God, and crowned him with glory and honor.

As we have borne the image of those made of dust, let’s also bear the image of the heavenly.

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin. — read the full passage →

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

“Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself. — read the full passage →

“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble. — read the full passage →

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

Yahweh, what is man, that you care for him? Or the son of man, that you think of him?

Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t one fashion us in the womb?

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

For since death came by man, the resurrection of the dead also came by man.

Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

The wise man’s eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness—and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.

Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me; your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.

For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God, except God’s Spirit.

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see the Kingdom of God.” — read the full passage →

When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;

“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.

Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?

May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.

Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes.”

With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in the image of God.

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” Having said this, he breathed his last.

Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?”

All things are full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.

But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,

The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

But there is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty gives them understanding.

How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean? — read the full passage →

What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

“‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.

Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.

Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you.

As is the one made of dust, such are those who are also made of dust; and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.

For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man.

They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”

But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’”

I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.

Behold, he puts no trust in his servants. He charges his angels with error. — read the full passage →

He created them male and female, and blessed them. On the day they were created, he named them “Adam”.

But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.

For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world—how she may please her husband.

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

Don’t we all have one father? Hasn’t one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

An oracle. Yahweh’s word concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:

and wherever the children of men dwell, the animals of the field and the birds of the sky has he given into your hand, and has made you to rule over them all: you are the head of gold.

For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him: and I have given him the animals of the field also.

I have made the earth, and created man on it. I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens; and I have commanded all their army.

Thus says God Yahweh, he who created the heavens and stretched them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it.

In that day, people will look to their Maker, and their eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel.

The rich and the poor have this in common: Yahweh is the maker of them all.

Yahweh has made everything for its own end— yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.

“Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place;

“If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me; — read the full passage →

Behold, he puts no trust in his servants. He charges his angels with error.

You have put all things in subjection under his feet.” For in that he subjected all things to him, he left nothing that is not subject to him. But now we don’t see all things subjected to him, yet.

There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling;

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens. — read the full passage →

seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

For if I pray in another language, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful.

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting; — read the full passage →

But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.

But don’t you be called ‘Rabbi,’ for one is your teacher, the Christ, and all of you are brothers.

But Jesus summoned them, and said, “You know that the rulers of the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. — read the full passage →

With my soul have I desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me will I seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

Yahweh is on my side. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

Into your hand I commend my spirit. You redeem me, Yahweh, God of truth.

that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?

“Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s,’ — read the full passage →

Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,

He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →