Man
191 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
113 sections
- Able to Sustain Bodily Affliction
- All the Ways of, Clean in his own Eyes
- Allowed to Eat Flesh After the Flood
- Approved of by God
- Banished from Paradise
- Blessed by God
- Born in Sin
- Born to Trouble
- Called: A Worm
- Called: Flesh
- Called: The Potsherd of the Earth
- Called: Vain Man
- Cannot be Just with God
- Cannot Cleanse Himself
- Cannot Direct his Ways
- Cannot Profit God
- Cannot Retain his Spirit from Death
- Christ is the Head of Every
- Christ was Found in Fashion As
- Christ: A Refuge As, to Sinners
- Christ: Approved of God As
- Christ: As Such, is the Cause of the Resurrection
- Christ: Called the Second, As Covenant Head of the Church
- Christ: Knew What Was In
- Christ: Made in the Image of
- Christ: Took on Him Nature of
- Clothed by God with Skins
- Compared to a Sleep
- Compared to a Wild Donkey's Colt
- Compared to Clay in the Potter's Hand
- Compared to Grass
- Compared to Vanity
- Covered Himself with Fig Leaves
- Created
- Created by Christ
- Created by God
- Created by the Holy Spirit
- Created in Knowledge (Inferred)
- Created in the Image of God
- Created in Uprightness
- Created: A Living Soul
- Created: A Type of Christ
- Created: After Consultation, by the Trinity
- Created: After the Likeness of God
- Created: from the Dust
- Created: Male and Female
- Created: On the Sixth Day
- Created: Under Obligations to Obedience
- Created: Upon the Earth
- Days of, As the Days of a Hireling
- Days of, Compared to a Shadow
- Design of the Creation of
- Disobeyed God by Eating Part of the Forbidden Fruit
- Dominion of
- Equality of
- Every Herb and Tree Given To, for Food
- Fearfully and Wonderfully Made
- Filled with Shame After the Fall
- Gave Names to Other Creatures
- God: Destroys the Hopes of
- God: Enables to Speak
- God: Instructs
- God: Makes his Beauty Consume Away
- God: Makes the Wrath of, to Praise Him
- God: Orders the Goings of
- God: Prepares the Heart of
- God: Preserves
- God: Provides For
- God: Turns to Destruction
- God's Purpose in Creation Completed by Making
- Has an Appointed Time on the Earth
- Has but Few Days
- Has Sought out Many Inventions
- Ignorant of What is Good for Him
- Ignorant of What is to Come After Him
- Inferior to Angels
- Insignificance of
- Intellect of, Matured by Age
- Involved Posterity in his Ruin
- Little Lower than the Angels
- Made by God in his Successive Generations
- Made for God
- Made Wise by the Inspiration of the Almighty
- More Valuable than Other Creatures
- Mortal
- Nature and Constitution of, Different from Other Creatures
- No Trust to be Placed In
- Not Good For, to be Alone
- Not Profited by all his Labour and Travail
- Ordinary Limit of his Life
- Originally Naked and not Ashamed
- Placed in the Garden of Eden
- Possessed of a Body
- Possessed of a Soul
- Possessed of a Spirit
- Possessed of Affections
- Possessed of Conscience
- Possessed of Memory
- Possessed of Understanding
- Possessed of Will
- Punished for Disobedience
- Quickened by the Breath of God
- Received Dominion Over Other Creatures
- Shall be Recompensed According to his Works
- Sinks Under Trouble of Mind
- Spirit
- The Help of, Vain
- The Whole Duty of
- Unworthy of God's Favour
- Walks in a Vain Show
- Wiser than Other Creatures
- Woman Formed to be a Help For
- Would Give all his Possessions for the Preservation of Life
Able to Sustain Bodily Affliction
- Proverbs 18:14 The spirit of a man can endure his sickness, but who can survive a broken spirit?
All the Ways of, Clean in his own Eyes
- Proverbs 16:2 All a man’s ways are pure in his own eyes, but his motives are weighed out by the LORD.
Allowed to Eat Flesh After the Flood
- Genesis 9:3 Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things.
Approved of by God
- Genesis 1:31 And God looked upon all that He had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning — the sixth day.
Banished from Paradise
- Genesis 3:23–24 Therefore the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. …
Blessed by God
- Genesis 1:28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.”
- Genesis 5:2 Male and female He created them, and He blessed them. And in the day they were created, He called them “man.”
Born in Sin
- Psalm 51:5 Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.
Born to Trouble
- Job 5:7 Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.
Called: A Worm
- Job 25:6 how much less man, who is but a maggot, and the son of man, who is but a worm!”
Called: Flesh
- Genesis 6:12 And God looked upon the earth and saw that it was corrupt; for all living creatures on the earth had corrupted their ways.
- Joel 2:28 And afterward, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.
Called: The Potsherd of the Earth
- Isaiah 45:9 Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker— one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘He has no hands’?
Called: Vain Man
- Job 11:12 But a witless man can no more become wise than the colt of a wild donkey can be born a man!
- James 2:20 O foolish man, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is worthless?
Cannot be Just with God
- Job 9:2 “Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?
- Job 25:4 How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
- Psalm 143:2 Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.
- Romans 3:20 Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.
Cannot Cleanse Himself
- Job 15:14 What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
- Jeremiah 2:22 Although you wash with lye and use an abundance of soap, the stain of your guilt is still before Me,” declares the Lord GOD.
Cannot Direct his Ways
- Jeremiah 10:23 I know, O LORD, that a man’s way is not his own; no one who walks directs his own steps.
- Proverbs 20:24 A man’s steps are from the LORD, so how can anyone understand his own way?
Cannot Profit God
- Job 22:2 “Can a man be of use to God? Can even a wise man benefit Him?
- Psalm 16:2 I said to the LORD, “You are my Lord; apart from You I have no good thing.”
Cannot Retain his Spirit from Death
- Ecclesiastes 8:8 As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.
Christ is the Head of Every
- 1 Corinthians 11:3 But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.
Christ was Found in Fashion As
- Philippians 2:8 And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to death — even death on a cross.
Christ: A Refuge As, to Sinners
- Isaiah 32:2 Each will be like a shelter from the wind, a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in a dry land, like the shadow of a great rock in an arid land.
Christ: Approved of God As
- Acts 2:22 Men of Israel, listen to this message: Jesus of Nazareth was a man certified by God to you by miracles, wonders, and signs, which God did among you through Him, as you yourselves know.
Christ: As Such, is the Cause of the Resurrection
- 1 Corinthians 15:21–22 For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. …
Christ: Called the Second, As Covenant Head of the Church
- 1 Corinthians 15:47 The first man was of the dust of the earth, the second man from heaven.
Christ: Knew What Was In
- John 2:25 He did not need any testimony about man, for He knew what was in a man.
Christ: Made in the Image of
- Philippians 2:7 but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in human likeness.
Christ: Took on Him Nature of
- John 1:14 The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
- Hebrews 2:14 Now since the children have flesh and blood, He too shared in their humanity, so that by His death He might destroy him who holds the power of death, that is, the devil,
- Hebrews 2:16 For surely it is not the angels He helps, but the descendants of Abraham.
Clothed by God with Skins
- Genesis 3:21 And the LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and He clothed them.
Compared to a Sleep
- Psalm 90:5 You sweep them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—
Compared to a Wild Donkey's Colt
- Job 11:12 But a witless man can no more become wise than the colt of a wild donkey can be born a man!
Compared to Clay in the Potter's Hand
- Isaiah 64:8 But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.
- Jeremiah 18:2 “Go down at once to the potter’s house, and there I will give you My message.”
- Jeremiah 18:6 “O house of Israel, declares the LORD, can I not treat you as this potter treats his clay? Just like clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel.
Compared to Grass
- Isaiah 40:6–8 A voice says, “Cry out!” And I asked, “What should I cry out?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field. …
- 1 Peter 1:24 For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,
Compared to Vanity
- Psalm 144:4 Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
Covered Himself with Fig Leaves
- Genesis 3:7 And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; so they sewed together fig leaves and made coverings for themselves.
Created
- Genesis 1:26–27 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.” …
- Genesis 2:7 Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
- Genesis 5:1–2 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in His own likeness. …
- Deuteronomy 4:32 Indeed, ask now from one end of the heavens to the other about the days that long preceded you, from the day that God created man on earth: Has anything as great as this ever happened or been reported?
- Job 4:17 ‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?
- Job 10:2–3 I will say to God: Do not condemn me! Let me know why You prosecute me. …
- Job 10:8–9 Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me? …
- Job 31:15 Did not He who made me in the womb also make them? Did not the same One form us in the womb?
- Job 33:4 The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
- Job 35:10 But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,
- Psalm 8:5 You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor.
- Psalm 100:3 Know that the LORD is God. It is He who made us, and we are His; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.
- Psalm 119:73 Your hands have made me and fashioned me; give me understanding to learn Your commandments.
- Psalm 138:8 The LORD will fulfill His purpose for me. O LORD, Your loving devotion endures forever — do not abandon the works of Your hands.
- Psalm 139:14 I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well.
- Ecclesiastes 7:29 Only this have I found: I have discovered that God made mankind upright, but they have sought out many schemes.”
- Isaiah 17:7 In that day men will look to their Maker and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.
- Isaiah 42:5 This is what God the LORD says— He who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its offspring, who gives breath to the people on it and life to those who walk in it:
- Isaiah 43:7 everyone called by My name and created for My glory, whom I have indeed formed and made.”
- Isaiah 45:12 It is I who made the earth and created man upon it. It was My hands that stretched out the heavens, and I ordained all their host.
- Isaiah 64:8 But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.
- Jeremiah 27:5 By My great power and outstretched arm, I made the earth and the men and beasts on the face of it, and I give it to whom I please.
- Zechariah 12:1 Thus declares the LORD, who stretches out the heavens and lays the foundation of the earth, who forms the spirit of man within him:
- Malachi 2:10 Do we not all have one Father? Did not one God create us? Why then do we break faith with one another so as to profane the covenant of our fathers?
- Mark 10:6 However, from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’
- Hebrews 2:7 You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor
Created by Christ
- John 1:3 Through Him all things were made, and without Him nothing was made that has been made.
- Colossians 1:16 For in Him all things were created, things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities. All things were created through Him and for Him.
Created by God
- Genesis 1:27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
- Isaiah 45:12 It is I who made the earth and created man upon it. It was My hands that stretched out the heavens, and I ordained all their host.
Created by the Holy Spirit
- Job 33:4 The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
Created in Knowledge (Inferred)
- Colossians 3:10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
Created in the Image of God
- Genesis 1:26–27 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.” …
- Genesis 9:6 Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.
- Ecclesiastes 7:29 Only this have I found: I have discovered that God made mankind upright, but they have sought out many schemes.”
- 1 Corinthians 11:7 A man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man.
- 1 Corinthians 15:48–49 As was the earthly man, so also are those who are of the earth; and as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are of heaven. …
- James 3:9 With the tongue we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God’s likeness.
Created in Uprightness
- Ecclesiastes 7:29 Only this have I found: I have discovered that God made mankind upright, but they have sought out many schemes.”
Created: A Living Soul
- Genesis 2:7 Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
- 1 Corinthians 15:45 So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam a life-giving spirit.
Created: A Type of Christ
- Romans 5:14 Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who did not sin in the way that Adam transgressed. He is a pattern of the One to come.
Created: After Consultation, by the Trinity
- Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”
Created: After the Likeness of God
- Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”
- James 3:9 With the tongue we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God’s likeness.
Created: from the Dust
- Genesis 2:7 Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
- Job 33:6 I am just like you before God; I was also formed from clay.
Created: Male and Female
- Genesis 1:27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
- Genesis 5:2 Male and female He created them, and He blessed them. And in the day they were created, He called them “man.”
Created: On the Sixth Day
- Genesis 1:31 And God looked upon all that He had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning — the sixth day.
Created: Under Obligations to Obedience
- Genesis 2:16–17 And the LORD God commanded him, “You may eat freely from every tree of the garden, …
Created: Upon the Earth
- Deuteronomy 4:32 Indeed, ask now from one end of the heavens to the other about the days that long preceded you, from the day that God created man on earth: Has anything as great as this ever happened or been reported?
- Job 20:4 Do you not know that from antiquity, since man was placed on the earth,
Days of, As the Days of a Hireling
- Job 7:1 “Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand?
Days of, Compared to a Shadow
- 1 Chronicles 29:15 For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.
Design of the Creation of
- Psalm 8:6–8 You made him ruler of the works of Your hands; You have placed everything under his feet: …
- Proverbs 16:4 The LORD has made everything for His purpose— even the wicked for the day of disaster.
- Isaiah 43:7 everyone called by My name and created for My glory, whom I have indeed formed and made.”
Disobeyed God by Eating Part of the Forbidden Fruit
- Genesis 3:1–12 Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden?’” …
Dominion of
- Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”
- Genesis 1:28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.”
- Genesis 2:19–20 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and He brought them to the man to see what he would name each one. And whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. …
- Genesis 9:2–3 The fear and dread of you will fall on every living creature on the earth, every bird of the air, every creature that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the sea. They are delivered into your hand. …
- Jeremiah 27:6 So now I have placed all these lands under the authority of My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. I have even made the beasts of the field subject to him.
- Jeremiah 28:14 For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations to make them serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and they will serve him. I have even given him control of …
- Daniel 2:38 Wherever the sons of men or beasts of the field or birds of the air dwell, He has given them into your hand and has made you ruler over them all. You are that head of gold.
- Hebrews 2:7–8 You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor …
Equality of
- Job 31:13–15 If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or maidservant when they made a complaint against me, …
- Psalm 33:13–15 The LORD looks down from heaven; He sees all the sons of men. …
- Proverbs 22:2 The rich and the poor have this in common: The LORD is Maker of them all.
- Matthew 20:25–28 But Jesus called them aside and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their superiors exercise authority over them. …
- Matthew 23:8 But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi,’ for you have one Teacher, and you are all brothers.
- Matthew 23:11 The greatest among you shall be your servant.
- Mark 10:42–44 So Jesus called them together and said, “You know that those regarded as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their superiors exercise authority over them. …
- Acts 10:28 He said to them, “You know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with a foreigner or visit him. But God has shown me that I should not call any man impure or unclean.
- Acts 17:26 From one man He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their lands.
- Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Every Herb and Tree Given To, for Food
- Genesis 1:29 Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit contains seed. They will be yours for food.
Fearfully and Wonderfully Made
- Psalm 139:14 I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well.
Filled with Shame After the Fall
- Genesis 3:10 “I heard Your voice in the garden,” he replied, “and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself.”
Gave Names to Other Creatures
- Genesis 2:19–20 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and He brought them to the man to see what he would name each one. And whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. …
God: Destroys the Hopes of
- Job 14:19 as water wears away the stones and torrents wash away the soil, so You destroy a man’s hope.
God: Enables to Speak
- Proverbs 16:1 The plans of the heart belong to man, but the reply of the tongue is from the LORD.
God: Instructs
- Psalm 94:10 He who admonishes the nations, does He not discipline? He who teaches man, does He lack knowledge?
God: Makes his Beauty Consume Away
- Psalm 39:11 You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah
God: Makes the Wrath of, to Praise Him
- Psalm 76:10 Even the wrath of man shall praise You; with the survivors of wrath You will clothe Yourself.
God: Orders the Goings of
- Proverbs 5:21 For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and the LORD examines all his paths.
- Proverbs 20:24 A man’s steps are from the LORD, so how can anyone understand his own way?
God: Prepares the Heart of
- Proverbs 16:1 The plans of the heart belong to man, but the reply of the tongue is from the LORD.
God: Preserves
- Job 7:20 If I have sinned, what have I done to You, O watcher of mankind? Why have You made me Your target, so that I am a burden to You?
- Psalm 36:6 Your righteousness is like the highest mountains; Your judgments are like the deepest sea. O LORD, You preserve man and beast.
God: Provides For
- Psalm 145:15–16 The eyes of all look to You, and You give them their food in season. …
God: Turns to Destruction
- Psalm 90:3 You return man to dust, saying, “Return, O sons of mortals.”
God's Purpose in Creation Completed by Making
- Genesis 2:5 Now no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth, nor had any plant of the field sprouted, for the LORD God had not yet sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.
- Genesis 2:7 Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
Has an Appointed Time on the Earth
- Job 7:1 “Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand?
Has but Few Days
- Job 14:1 “Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.
Has Sought out Many Inventions
- Ecclesiastes 7:29 Only this have I found: I have discovered that God made mankind upright, but they have sought out many schemes.”
Ignorant of What is Good for Him
- Ecclesiastes 10:2 A wise man’s heart inclines to the right, but the heart of a fool to the left.
Ignorant of What is to Come After Him
- Ecclesiastes 10:14 Yet the fool multiplies words. No one knows what is coming, and who can tell him what will come after him?
Inferior to Angels
- Psalm 8:5 You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor.
- Hebrews 2:7 You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor
Insignificance of
- Job 4:18–19 If God puts no trust in His servants, and He charges His angels with error, …
- Job 15:14 What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
- Job 22:2–5 “Can a man be of use to God? Can even a wise man benefit Him? …
- Job 25:4–6 How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure? …
- Job 35:2–8 “Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’ …
- Job 38:4 Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding.
- Job 38:12–13 In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place, …
- Psalm 8:3–4 When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place — …
- Psalm 144:3–4 O LORD, what is man, that You regard him, the son of man that You think of him? …
Intellect of, Matured by Age
- 1 Corinthians 13:11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways.
Involved Posterity in his Ruin
- Romans 5:12–19 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned. …
Little Lower than the Angels
- Job 4:18–21 If God puts no trust in His servants, and He charges His angels with error, …
- Psalm 8:5 You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor.
- Hebrews 2:7–8 You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor …
Made by God in his Successive Generations
- Job 10:8–11 Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me? …
- Job 31:15 Did not He who made me in the womb also make them? Did not the same One form us in the womb?
Made for God
- Proverbs 16:4 The LORD has made everything for His purpose— even the wicked for the day of disaster.
- Revelation 4:11 “Worthy are You, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for You created all things; by Your will they exist and were created.”
Made Wise by the Inspiration of the Almighty
- Job 32:8–9 But there is a spirit in a man, the breath of the Almighty, that gives him understanding. …
More Valuable than Other Creatures
- Matthew 6:26 Look at the birds of the air: They do not sow or reap or gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
- Matthew 10:31 So do not be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.
- Matthew 12:12 How much more valuable is a man than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”
Mortal
- Job 4:17 ‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?
- Ecclesiastes 2:14–15 The wise man has eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also came to realize that one fate overcomes them both. …
- Ecclesiastes 3:20 All go to one place; all come from dust, and all return to dust.
- 1 Corinthians 15:21–22 For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. …
- Hebrews 9:27 Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,
Nature and Constitution of, Different from Other Creatures
- 1 Corinthians 15:39 Not all flesh is the same: Men have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another, and fish another.
No Trust to be Placed In
- Psalm 118:8 It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in man.
- Isaiah 2:22 Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?
Not Good For, to be Alone
- Genesis 2:18 The LORD God also said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make for him a suitable helper.”
Not Profited by all his Labour and Travail
- Ecclesiastes 2:22 For what does a man get for all the toil and striving with which he labors under the sun?
- Ecclesiastes 6:12 For who knows what is good for a man during the few days in which he passes through his fleeting life like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will come after him under the sun?
Ordinary Limit of his Life
- Psalm 90:10 The length of our days is seventy years — or eighty if we are strong — yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.
Originally Naked and not Ashamed
- Genesis 2:25 And the man and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed.
Placed in the Garden of Eden
- Genesis 2:15 Then the LORD God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.
Possessed of a Body
- Matthew 6:25 Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?
Possessed of a Soul
- Luke 12:20 But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’
- Acts 14:22 strengthening the souls of the disciples and encouraging them to continue in the faith. “We must endure many hardships to enter the kingdom of God,” they said.
- 1 Peter 4:19 So then, those who suffer according to God’s will should entrust their souls to their faithful Creator and continue to do good.
Possessed of a Spirit
- Proverbs 18:14 The spirit of a man can endure his sickness, but who can survive a broken spirit?
- Proverbs 20:17 Food gained by fraud is sweet to a man, but later his mouth is full of gravel.
- 1 Corinthians 2:11 For who among men knows the thoughts of man except his own spirit within him? So too, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
Possessed of Affections
- 1 Chronicles 29:3 Moreover, because of my delight in the house of my God, I now give for it my personal treasures of gold and silver, over and above all that I have provided for this holy temple:
- Colossians 3:2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
Possessed of Conscience
- Romans 2:15 So they show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts either accusing or defending them
- 1 Timothy 4:2 influenced by the hypocrisy of liars, whose consciences are seared with a hot iron.
Possessed of Memory
- Genesis 41:9 Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, “Today I recall my failures.
- 1 Corinthians 15:2 By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.
Possessed of Understanding
- Ephesians 1:18 I ask that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know the hope of His calling, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints,
- Ephesians 4:18 They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.
Possessed of Will
- 1 Corinthians 9:17 If my preaching is voluntary, I have a reward. But if it is not voluntary, I am still entrusted with a responsibility.
- 2 Peter 1:21 For no such prophecy was ever brought forth by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
Punished for Disobedience
- Genesis 3:16–19 To the woman He said: “I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.” …
Quickened by the Breath of God
- Genesis 2:7 Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
- Genesis 7:22 Of all that was on dry land, everything that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.
- Job 33:4 The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
Received Dominion Over Other Creatures
- Genesis 1:28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.”
- Psalm 8:6–8 You made him ruler of the works of Your hands; You have placed everything under his feet: …
Shall be Recompensed According to his Works
- Psalm 62:12 and loving devotion to You, O Lord. For You will repay each man according to his deeds.
- Romans 2:6 God “will repay each one according to his deeds.”
Sinks Under Trouble of Mind
- Proverbs 18:14 The spirit of a man can endure his sickness, but who can survive a broken spirit?
Spirit
- Job 4:19 how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!
- Job 32:8 But there is a spirit in a man, the breath of the Almighty, that gives him understanding.
- Psalm 31:5 Into Your hands I commit my spirit; You have redeemed me, O LORD, God of truth.
- Proverbs 20:27 The spirit of a man is the lamp of the LORD, searching out his inmost being.
- Ecclesiastes 1:8 All things are wearisome, more than one can describe; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear content with hearing.
- Ecclesiastes 3:21 Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and the spirit of the animal descends into the earth?
- Ecclesiastes 12:7 before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
- Isaiah 26:9 My soul longs for You in the night; indeed, my spirit seeks You at dawn. For when Your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.
- Zechariah 12:1 Thus declares the LORD, who stretches out the heavens and lays the foundation of the earth, who forms the spirit of man within him:
- Matthew 4:4 But Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
- Matthew 10:28 Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
- Matthew 26:41 “Watch and pray so that you will not enter into temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak.”
- Mark 14:38 Watch and pray so that you will not enter into temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak.”
- Luke 22:40 When He came to the place, He told them, “Pray that you will not enter into temptation.”
- Luke 23:46 Then Jesus called out in a loud voice, “Father, into Your hands I commit My Spirit.” And when He had said this, He breathed His last.
- Luke 24:39 Look at My hands and My feet. It is I Myself. Touch Me and see — for a spirit does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.”
- John 3:3–8 Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.” …
- John 4:24 God is Spirit, and His worshipers must worship Him in spirit and in truth.”
- Acts 7:59 While they were stoning him, Stephen appealed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”
- Romans 1:9 God, whom I serve with my spirit in preaching the gospel of His Son, is my witness how constantly I remember you
- Romans 2:29 No, a man is a Jew because he is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a man’s praise does not come from men, but from God.
- Romans 7:14–25 We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. …
- 1 Corinthians 2:11 For who among men knows the thoughts of man except his own spirit within him? So too, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
- 1 Corinthians 6:20 you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.
- 1 Corinthians 7:34 and his interests are divided. The unmarried woman or virgin is concerned about the work of the Lord, how she can be holy in both body and spirit. But the married woman is concerned about the affairs of this world, how she can …
- 1 Corinthians 14:14 For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful.
- 2 Corinthians 4:6–7 For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. …
- 2 Corinthians 4:16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, yet our inner self is being renewed day by day.
- 2 Corinthians 5:1–9 For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is dismantled, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. …
- Ephesians 3:16 I ask that out of the riches of His glory He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being,
- Ephesians 4:4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called;
- 1 Thessalonians 5:23 Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely, and may your entire spirit, soul, and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
- James 2:26 As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.
The Help of, Vain
- Psalm 60:11 Give us aid against the enemy, for the help of man is worthless.
The Whole Duty of
- Ecclesiastes 12:13 When all has been heard, the conclusion of the matter is this: Fear God and keep His commandments, because this is the whole duty of man.
Unworthy of God's Favour
Walks in a Vain Show
- Psalm 39:6 Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.
Wiser than Other Creatures
- Job 35:11 who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’
Woman Formed to be a Help For
- Genesis 2:20–25 The man gave names to all the livestock, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam no suitable helper was found. …
Would Give all his Possessions for the Preservation of Life
- Job 2:4 “Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give up all he owns in exchange for his life.
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.