Man

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

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.” So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and f…
• 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. Male and female He created them, and He blessed them. And in the day they were created, He called them “man.”
• 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. Does it please You to oppress me, to reject the work of Your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked?
• Job 10:8–9 Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me? Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?
• 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,

See CREATED IN THE IMAGE OF GOD, below

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.” So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and f…
• 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. And just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so also shall we bear the likeness of the heavenly man.
• 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.

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: all sheep and oxen, and even the beasts of the field, the birds of the air and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.
• 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.”

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. The man gave names to all the livestock, to the birds of the air, and…
• 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. Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I no…
• 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 the beasts of the field.’”
• 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 and placed everything under his feet.” When God subjected all things to him, He left nothing outside of his control. Yet at present we do not see everything subject to him.

Duty of

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Equality of

• Job 31:13–15 If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or maidservant when they made a complaint against me, what will I do when God rises to judge? How will I answer when called to account? Did not He who made me in the womb also make them? Did not the same One form us in the womb?
• Psalm 33:13–15 The LORD looks down from heaven; He sees all the sons of men. From His dwelling place He gazes on all who inhabit the earth. He shapes the hearts of each; He considers all their works.
• 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. It shall not be this way among you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first among you mus…
• 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. But it shall not be this way among you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be…
• 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.

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Ignorance of

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Immortal

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Insignificance of

• Job 4:18–19 If God puts no trust in His servants, and He charges His angels with error, how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!
• 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? Does it delight the Almighty that you are righteous? Does He profit if your ways are blameless? Is it for your reverence that He rebukes you and enters into judgment against you? Is not your wickedness great? Are not your iniquities endl…
• Job 25:4–6 How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure? If even the moon does not shine, and the stars are not pure in His sight, how much less man, who is but a maggot, and the son of man, who is but a worm!”
• Job 35:2–8 “Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’ For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’ I will reply to you and to your friends as well. Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you. If you sin, what do you accomplish…
• 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, that it might spread to the ends of the earth and shake the wicked out of it?
• 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 — what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?
• Psalm 144:3–4 O LORD, what is man, that You regard him, the son of man that You think of him? Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

Little Lower Than the Angels

• Job 4:18–21 If God puts no trust in His servants, and He charges His angels with error, how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth! They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever. Are not their tent cords pull…
• 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 and placed everything under his feet.” When God subjected all things to him, He left nothing outside of his control. Yet at present we do not see everything subject to him.

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. So I said to myself, “The fate of the fool will also befall me. What then have I gained by being wise?” And I said to myself that this too is futile.
• 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. For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.
• Hebrews 9:27 Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,

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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 This is the burden of the word of the LORD concerning Israel. 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.’”

State of, After the Fall

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State of, Before the Fall

See above, CREATED IN THE IMAGE OF GOD

Young Men

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