What Does the Bible Say About Man?
Here are 8 Bible verses about man, ordered by how relevant readers found them, with the King James Version and the modern Berean Standard Bible side by side.
- #1Genesis 1:26
And 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 fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
BSBThen 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.”
- #2Genesis 1:27
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
BSBSo God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
- #3Job 4:17
Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
BSB‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?
- #4Isaiah 43:7
Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
BSBeveryone called by My name and created for My glory, whom I have indeed formed and made.”
- #5Hebrews 2:7
Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands:
BSBYou made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor
- #6Genesis 2:7
And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
BSBThen 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.
- #7Psalms 8:6-8
Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
BSBYou 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.
- #8Proverbs 20:27
The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, searching all the inward parts of the belly.
BSBThe spirit of a man is the lamp of the LORD, searching out his inmost being.
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Man in Torrey's Topical Textbook
- Made for God: Pr 16:4; Re 4:11
- God's purpose in creation completed by making: Ge 2:5,7
- Cannot profit God: Job 22:2; Ps 16:2
- Unworthy of God's favour: Job 7:17; Ps 8:4
- CREATED
- By God: Ge 1:27; Isa 45:12
- By Christ: Joh 1:3; Col 1:16
- By the Holy Spirit: Job 33:4
- After consultation, by the Trinity: Ge 1:26
- On the sixth day: Ge 1:31
- Upon the earth: De 4:32; Job 20:4
- From the dust: Ge 2:7; Job 33:6
- In the image of God: Ge 1:26,27; 1Co 11:7
- After the likeness of God: Ge 1:26; Jas 3:9
- Male and female: Ge 1:27; 5:2
- A living soul: Ge 2:7; 1Co 15:45
- In uprightness: Ec 7:29
- In knowledge (inferred): Col 3:10
- Under obligations to obedience: Ge 2:16,17
- A type of Christ: Ro 5:14
- Approved of by God: Ge 1:31
- Blessed by God: Ge 1:28; 5:2
- Placed in the garden of Eden: Ge 2:15
- Every herb and tree given to, for food: Ge 1:29
- Allowed to eat flesh after the flood: Ge 9:3
- Not good for, to be alone: Ge 2:18
- Woman formed to be a help for: Ge 2:20-25
- POSSESSED OF
- A Body: Mt 6:25
- A soul: Lu 12:20; Ac 14:22; 1Pe 4:19
- A spirit: Pr 18:14; 20:17; 1Co 2:11
- Understanding: Eph 1:18; 4:18
- Will: 1Co 9:17; 2Pe 1:21
- Affections: 1Ch 29:3; Col 3:2
- Conscience: Ro 2:15; 1Ti 4:2
- Memory: Ge 41:9; 1Co 15:2
- Made by God in his successive generations: Job 10:8-11; 31:15
- Fearfully and wonderfully made: Ps 139:14
- Of every nation, made of one blood: Ac 17:26
- Quickened by the breath of God: Ge 2:7; 7:22; Job 33:4
- Made wise by the inspiration of the Almighty: Job 32:8,9
- Inferior to angels: Ps 8:5; Heb 2:7
- Is of the earth earthy: 1Co 15:47
- Nature and constitution of, different from other creatures: 1Co 15:39
- More valuable than other creatures: Mt 6:26; 10:31; 12:12
- Wiser than other creatures: Job 35:11
- Received dominion over other creatures: Ge 1:28; Ps 8:6-8
- Gave names to other creatures: Ge 2:19,20
- Intellect of, matured by age: 1Co 13:11
- CALLED
- The potsherd of the earth: Isa 45:9
- A worm: Job 25:6
- Vain man: Job 11:12; Jas 2:20
- Flesh: Ge 6:12; Joe 2:28
- COMPARED TO
- Grass: Isa 40:6-8; 1Pe 1:24
- Clay in the potter's hand: Isa 64:8; Jer 18:2,6
- Vanity: Ps 144:4
- A sleep: Ps 90:5
- A wild ass's colt: Job 11:12
- Originally naked and not ashamed: Ge 2:25
- Disobeyed God by eating part of the forbidden fruit: Ge 3:1-12
- Filled with shame after the fall: Ge 3:10
- Covered himself with fig leaves: Ge 3:7
- Clothed by God with skins: Ge 3:21
- Punished for disobedience: Ge 3:16-19
- Banished from paradise: Ge 3:23,24
- Involved posterity in his ruin: Ro 5:12-19
- Has sought out many inventions: Ec 7:29
- Born in sin: Ps 51:5
- Born to trouble: Job 5:7
- Has an appointed time on the earth: Job 7:1
- Days of, compared to a shadow: 1Ch 29:15
- Days of, as the days of a hireling: Job 7:1
- Has but few days: Job 14:1
- Ordinary limit of his life: Ps 90:10
- Ignorant of what is good for him: Ec 10:2
- Ignorant of what is to come after him: Ec 10:14
- Not profited by all his labour and travail: Ec 2:22; 6:12
- Cannot direct his ways: Jer 10:23; Pr 20:24
- Walks in a vain show: Ps 39:6
- GOD
- Instructs: Ps 94:10
- Orders the goings of: Pr 5:21; 20:24
- Prepares the heart of: Pr 16:1
- Enables to speak: Pr 16:1
- Preserves: Job 7:20; Ps 36:6
- Provides for: Ps 145:15,16
- Destroys the hopes of: Job 14:19
- Makes the wrath of, to praise him: Ps 76:10
- Makes his beauty consume away: Ps 39:11
- Turns to destruction: Ps 90:3
- Cannot be just with God: Job 9:2; 25:4; Ps 143:2; Ro 3:20
- Cannot cleanse himself: Job 15:14; Jer 2:22
- All the ways of, clean in his own eyes: Pr 16:2
- CHRIST
- Knew what was in: Joh 2:25
- Took on him nature of: Joh 1:14; Heb 2:14,16
- Made in the image of: Php 2:7
- Was found in fashion as: Php 2:8
- Approved of God as: Ac 2:22
- Called the second, as covenant head of the church: 1Co 15:47
- Is the head of every: 1Co 11:3
- A refuge as, to sinners: Isa 32:2
- As such, is the cause of the resurrection: 1Co 15:21,22
- Shall be recompensed according to his works: Ps 62:12; Ro 2:6
- Cannot retain his spirit from death: Ec 8:8
- Would give all his possessions for the preservation of life: Job 2:4
- Able to sustain bodily affliction: Pr 18:14
- Sinks under trouble of mind: Pr 18:14
- No trust to be placed in: Ps 118:8; Isa 2:22
- The help of, vain: Ps 60:11
- The whole duty of: Ec 12:13