Genesis 2:7
King James Version
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.
Why did GOD create man?
What is man's role on earth?
How is man to conduct himself?
In a fallen world, how can one be godly?
How can he be acceptable to GOD?
As always, Scripture tells us how:
Genesis 1:27-28
King James Version
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God created he him;
male and female created he them.
28 And God blessed them,
and God said unto them,
Be fruitful, and multiply,
and replenish the earth,
and subdue it:
and have dominion over the fish of the sea,
and over the fowl of the air,
and over every living thing
that moveth upon the earth.
Genesis 2:15
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15 And the Lord God took the man,
and put him into the garden of Eden
to dress it and to keep it.
Genesis 2:21-24
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21 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep
to fall upon Adam, and he slept:
and he took one of his ribs,
and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
22 And the rib,
which the Lord God had taken from man,
made he a woman,
and brought her unto the man.
23 And Adam said,
This is now bone of my bones,
and flesh of my flesh:
she shall be called Woman,
because she was taken out of Man.
24 Therefore shall a man
leave his father and his mother,
and shall cleave unto his wife:
and they shall be one flesh.
Genesis 18:19
King James Version
19 For I know him, that he will command
his children and his household after him,
and they shall keep the way of the Lord,
to do justice and judgment;
that the Lord may bring upon Abraham
that which he hath spoken of him.
Exodus 20:12
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12 Honour thy father and thy mother:
that thy days may be long upon the land
which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Deuteronomy 11:18-21
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18 Therefore shall ye lay up these my words
in your heart and in your soul,
and bind them for a sign upon your hand,
that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.
19 And ye shall teach them your children,
speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house,
and when thou walkest by the way,
when thou liest down,
and when thou risest up.
20 And thou shalt write them
upon the door posts of thine house,
and upon thy gates:
21 That your days may be multiplied,
and the days of your children,
in the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers
to give them,
as the days of heaven upon the earth.
Joshua 24:14-15
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14 Now therefore fear the Lord,
and serve him in sincerity and in truth:
and put away the gods which your fathers served
on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt;
and serve ye the Lord.
15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord,
choose you this day whom ye will serve;
whether the gods which your fathers served
that were on the other side of the flood,
or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell:
but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
Psalm 1:1-2
King James Version
1 Blessed is the man that walketh not
in the counsel of the ungodly,
nor standeth in the way of sinners,
nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord;
and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
Proverbs 1:7
King James Version
7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge:
but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs 1:8-9
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8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father,
and forsake not the law of thy mother:
9 For they shall be an ornament of grace
unto thy head,
and chains about thy neck.
Proverbs 23:13-14
King James Version
13 Withhold not correction from the child:
for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
14 Thou shalt beat him with the rod,
and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
Proverbs 31:3
King James Version
3 Give not thy strength unto women,
nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.
Jeremiah 5:1
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5 Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem,
and see now, and know,
and seek in the broad places thereof,
if ye can find a man, if there be any
that executeth judgment,
that seeketh the truth;
and I will pardon it.
Ezekiel 22:29-30
King James Version
29 The people of the land have used oppression,
and exercised robbery,
and have vexed the poor and needy:
yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
30 And I sought for a man among them,
that should make up the hedge,
and stand in the gap before me for the land,
that I should not destroy it:
but I found none.
Ezekiel 33:7-9
King James Version
7 So thou, O son of man,
I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel;
therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth,
and warn them from me.
8 When I say unto the wicked,
O wicked man, thou shalt surely die;
if thou dost not speak
to warn the wicked from his way,
that wicked man shall die in his iniquity;
but his blood will I require at thine hand.
9 Nevertheless,
if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it;
if he do not turn from his way,
he shall die in his iniquity;
but thou hast delivered thy soul.
Mark 1:15
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15 And saying,
The time is fulfilled,
and the kingdom of God is at hand:
repent ye, and believe the gospel.
Mark 12:29-31
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29 And Jesus answered him,
The first of all the commandments is,
Hear, O Israel;
The Lord our God is one Lord:
30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God
with all thy heart,
and with all thy soul,
and with all thy mind,
and with all thy strength:
this is the first commandment.
31 And the second is like, namely this,
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
There is none other commandment
greater than these.
Luke 22:24-27
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24 And there was also a strife among them,
which of them should be accounted the greatest.
25 And he said unto them,
The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them;
and they that exercise authority upon them
are called benefactors.
26 But ye shall not be so:
but he that is greatest among you,
let him be as the younger;
and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.
27 For whether is greater,
he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth?
is not he that sitteth at meat?
but I am among you as he that serveth.
1 Corinthians 6:18
King James Version
18 Flee fornication.
Every sin that a man doeth is without the body;
but he that committeth fornication
sinneth against his own body.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20
King James Version
19 What?
know ye not that your body
is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you,
which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
20 For ye are bought with a price:
therefore glorify God in your body,
and in your spirit, which are God's.
1 Corinthians 7:1-2
King James Version
7 Now concerning the things
whereof ye wrote unto me:
It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication,
let every man have his own wife,
and let every woman have her own husband.
1 Corinthians 7:3
King James Version
3 Let the husband render unto the wife
due benevolence:
and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
1 Corinthians 7:7
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7 For I would that all men were even as I myself.
But every man hath his proper gift of God,
one after this manner, and another after that.
1 Corinthians 7:17
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17 But as God hath distributed to every man,
as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk.
And so ordain I in all churches.
1 Corinthians 7:18-19
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18 Is any man called being circumcised?
let him not become uncircumcised.
Is any called in uncircumcision?
let him not be circumcised.
19 Circumcision is nothing,
and uncircumcision is nothing,
but the keeping of the commandments of God.
1 Corinthians 7:20-24
King James Version
20 Let every man abide in the same calling
wherein he was called.
21 Art thou called being a servant?
care not for it:
but if thou mayest be made free,
use it rather.
22 For he that is called in the Lord,
being a servant, is the Lord's freeman:
likewise also he that is called,
being free, is Christ's servant.
23 Ye are bought with a price;
be not ye the servants of men.
24 Brethren, let every man,
wherein he is called,
therein abide with God.
1 Corinthians 7:25-26
King James Version
25 Now concerning virgins
I have no commandment of the Lord:
yet I give my judgment,
as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord
to be faithful.
26 I suppose therefore that this is good
for the present distress,
I say, that it is good for a man so to be.
1 Corinthians 7:27
King James Version
27 Art thou bound unto a wife?
seek not to be loosed.
Art thou loosed from a wife?
seek not a wife.
1 Corinthians 7:28
King James Version
28 But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned;
and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned.
Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh:
but I spare you.
1 Corinthians 7:29-31
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29 But this I say, brethren,
the time is short: it remaineth,
that both they that have wives be
as though they had none;
30 And they that weep, as though they wept not;
and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not;
and they that buy, as though they possessed not;
31 And they that use this world, as not abusing it:
for the fashion of this world passeth away.
1 Corinthians 7:32-33
King James Version
32 But I would have you without carefulness.
He that is unmarried
careth for the things that belong to the Lord,
how he may please the Lord:
33 But he that is married
careth for the things that are of the world,
how he may please his wife.
1 Corinthians 7:36
King James Version
36 But if any man think
that he behaveth himself uncomely
toward his virgin,
if she pass the flower of her age,
and need so require,
let him do what he will, he sinneth not:
let them marry.
1 Corinthians 7:37-38
King James Version
37 Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart,
having no necessity,
but hath power over his own will,
and hath so decreed in his heart
that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.
38 So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well;
but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better.
1 Corinthians 15:57-58
King James Version
57 But thanks be to God,
which giveth us the victory
through our Lord Jesus Christ.
58 Therefore, my beloved brethren,
be ye stedfast,
unmoveable,
always abounding in the work of the Lord,
forasmuch as ye know
that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
1 Corinthians 16:13-14
King James Version
13 Watch ye,
stand fast in the faith,
quit you like men,
be strong.
14 Let all your things
be done with charity.
Ephesians 5:25-30
King James Version
25 Husbands, love your wives,
even as Christ also loved the church,
and gave himself for it;
26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it
with the washing of water by the word,
27 That he might present it to himself
a glorious church,
not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing;
but that it should be holy and without blemish.
28 So ought men to love their wives
as their own bodies.
He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh;
but nourisheth and cherisheth it,
even as the Lord the church:
30 For we are members of his body,
of his flesh, and of his bones.
Ephesians 5:31-33
King James Version
31 For this cause shall a man
leave his father and mother,
and shall be joined unto his wife,
and they two shall be one flesh.
32 This is a great mystery:
but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular
so love his wife even as himself;
and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
Ephesians 6:4
King James Version
4 And, ye fathers,
provoke not your children to wrath:
but bring them up in the nurture
and admonition of the Lord.
Colossians 3:19
King James Version
19 Husbands,
love your wives,
and be not bitter against them.
Colossians 3:21
King James Version
21 Fathers,
provoke not your children to anger,
lest they be discouraged.
Colossians 3:23
King James Version
23 And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily,
as to the Lord, and not unto men;
1 Timothy 2:1-6
King James Version
2 I exhort therefore, that,
first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions,
and giving of thanks, be made for all men;
2 For kings, and for all that are in authority;
that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life
in all godliness and honesty.
3 For this is good and acceptable
in the sight of God our Saviour;
4 Who will have all men to be saved,
and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
5 For there is one God,
and one mediator between God and men,
the man Christ Jesus;
6 Who gave himself a ransom for all,
to be testified in due time.
1 Timothy 2:8
King James Version
8 I will therefore that men pray every where,
lifting up holy hands,
without wrath and doubting.
1 Timothy 3:1-5
King James Version
3 This is a true saying,
if a man desire the office of a bishop,
he desireth a good work.
2 A bishop then must be blameless,
the husband of one wife,
vigilant, sober, of good behaviour,
given to hospitality, apt to teach;
3 Not given to wine,
no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre;
but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
4 One that ruleth well his own house,
having his children in subjection with all gravity;
5 (For if a man know not how to rule his own house,
how shall he take care of the church of God?)
1 Timothy 5:8
King James Version
8 But if any provide not for his own,
and specially for those of his own house,
he hath denied the faith,
and is worse than an infidel.
2 Timothy 2:1-2
King James Version
2 Thou therefore, my son,
be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
2 And the things that thou hast heard of me
among many witnesses,
the same commit thou to faithful men,
who shall be able to teach others also.
2 Timothy 2:3-4
King James Version
3 Thou therefore endure hardness,
as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
4 No man that warreth
entangleth himself with the affairs of this life;
that he may please him who
hath chosen him to be a soldier.
2 Timothy 2:5-7
King James Version
5 And if a man also strive for masteries,
yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.
6 The husbandman that laboureth
must be first partaker of the fruits.
7 Consider what I say;
and the Lord give thee understanding
in all things.
1 Peter 3:7
King James Version
7 Likewise, ye husbands,
dwell with them according to knowledge,
giving honour unto the wife,
as unto the weaker vessel,
and as being heirs together of the grace of life;
that your prayers be not hindered.
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