Bible Verses About Man

No, the free gift is not like what resulted from one man’s sinning; for from one sinner came judgment that brought condemnation; but the free gift came after many offences and brought acquittal.

For if, because of the offence of one man, death ruled through that one man; how much more will those receiving the overflowing grace, that is, the gift of being considered righteous, rule in life through the one man Yeshua the Messiah!

In other words, just as it was through one offence that all people came under condemnation, so also it is through one righteous act that all people come to be considered righteous.

For just as through the disobedience of the one man, many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the other man, many will be made righteous.

For we know that the Torah is of the Spirit; but as for me, I am bound to the old nature, sold to sin as a slave.

I don’t understand my own behavior — I don’t do what I want to do; instead, I do the very thing I hate!

Now if I am doing what I don’t want to do, I am agreeing that the Torah is good.

But now it is no longer “the real me” doing it, but the sin housed inside me.

For I know that there is nothing good housed inside me — that is, inside my old nature. I can want what is good, but I can’t do it!

For I don’t do the good I want; instead, the evil that I don’t want is what I do!

But if I am doing what “the real me” doesn’t want, it is no longer “the real me” doing it but the sin housed inside me.

So I find it to be the rule, a kind of perverse “torah,” that although I want to do what is good, evil is right there with me!

For in my inner self I completely agree with God’s Torah;

but in my various parts, I see a different “torah,” one that battles with the Torah in my mind and makes me a prisoner of sin’s “torah,” which is operating in my various parts.

What a miserable creature I am! Who will rescue me from this body bound for death?

Thanks be to God [, he will]! — through Yeshua the Messiah, our Lord! To sum up: with my mind, I am a slave of God’s Torah; but with my old nature, I am a slave of sin’s “Torah.”

People born of dust are like the man of dust, and people born from heaven are like the man from heaven;

and just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, so also we will bear the image of the man from heaven.

For it is the God who once said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” who has made his light shine in our hearts, the light of the knowledge of God’s glory shining in the face of the Messiah Yeshua.

But we have this treasure in clay jars, so that it will be evident that such overwhelming power comes from God and not from us.

We know that when the tent which houses us here on earth is torn down, we have a permanent building from God, a building not made by human hands, to house us in heaven.

For in this tent, our earthly body, we groan with desire to have around us the home from heaven that will be ours.

With this around us we will not be found naked.

Yes, while we are in this body, we groan with the sense of being oppressed: it is not so much that we want to take something off, but rather to put something on over it; so that what must die may be swallowed up by the Life.

Moreover, it is God who has prepared us for this very thing, and as a pledge he has given us his Spirit.