Homem

26 And God said, "Let us make humankind in* our image and according to* our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of heaven,* and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every moving thing that moves upon the earth." 27 So* God created humankind in* his image, in* the likeness of God he created him,* male and female he created them.

8 Then* they heard the sound of Yahweh God walking in the garden at the windy time of day.* And the man* and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.

Death Came through Adam but Life Comes through Christ

12 Because of this, just as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death spread to all people because all sinned.

45 Thus also it is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living soul";* the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. 46 But the spiritual is not first, but the natural; then the spiritual. 47 The first man is from the earth, made of earth; the second man is from heaven. 48 As the one who is made of earth, so also are those who are made of earth, and as the heavenly, so also are those who are heavenly. 49 And just as we have borne the image of the one who is made of earth, we will also bear the image of the heavenly.

Job Continues to Argue His Case with God

1 "A human being born of a woman

is short of days and full of troubles.*

17 ‘Can a human being be more righteous than God,

or can a man be more pure than his Maker?

17 "What is a human being that you make him great

and that you fix your mind on him,*

6 But someone testified somewhere, saying,

"What is man, that you remember him,

or the son of man, that you care for him?

24 Away from Yahweh are the steps of a strong man,

and how will humankind understand his ways?

22 that you take off, according to your former way of life, the old man, who is being destroyed according to deceitful desires, 23 be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and put on the new man (in accordance with God), who is created in righteousness and holiness from the truth.

15 invalidating the law of commandments in ordinances, in order that he might create the two in himself into one new man, thus* making peace,

Renewed Charge to Timothy

11 But you, O man of God, flee from these things, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patient endurance, gentleness.

11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside the things of a child.

21 For before the eyes of Yahweh are human ways,*

and all his paths he examines.

1 To mortals belong the plans of the heart,

but from Yahweh comes the answer of the tongue.

The One Who Trusts in Humankind Contrasted With the One Who Trusts in Yahweh

5 Thus says Yahweh,

"Cursed is the person who trusts in humankind

and makes flesh his strength,*

and turns aside his heart from Yahweh.

7 For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; 8 he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

Instructions About Widows

1 Do not rebuke an older man, but appeal to him as a father, younger men as brothers,