5 Bible Verses about A Social Being
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The Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a companion for him who corresponds to him."
Each of you should be concerned not only about your own interests, but about the interests of others as well.
in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.
Live in harmony with one another; do not be haughty but associate with the lowly. Do not be conceited.
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Man » A social being » Creation of
The Lord God formed the man from the soil of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
Do we not all have one father? Did not one God create us? Why do we betray one another, in this way making light of the covenant of our ancestors?
Then God said, "Let us make humankind in our image, after our likeness, so they may rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move on the earth."
The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
He created them male and female; when they were created, he blessed them and named them "humankind."
Man » A social being » As grass
For all flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of the grass; the grass withers and the flower falls off,
"I, I am the one who consoles you. Why are you afraid of mortal men, of mere human beings who are as short-lived as grass?
A person's life is like grass. Like a flower in the field it flourishes, but when the hot wind blows by, it disappears, and one can no longer even spot the place where it once grew.
A voice says, "Cry out!" Another asks, "What should I cry out?" The first voice responds: "All people are like grass, and all their promises are like the flowers in the field. The grass dries up, the flowers wither, when the wind sent by the Lord blows on them. Surely humanity is like grass.
You bring their lives to an end and they "fall asleep." In the morning they are like the grass that sprouts up; in the morning it glistens and sprouts up; at evening time it withers and dries up.
Man » A social being » Equality of
But you are not to be called 'Rabbi,' for you have one Teacher and you are all brothers.
For there is no distinction between the Jew and the Greek, for the same Lord is Lord of all, who richly blesses all who call on him.
He said to them, "You know that it is unlawful for a Jew to associate with or visit a Gentile, yet God has shown me that I should call no person defiled or ritually unclean.
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female -- for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.
Man » A social being » As clay
Yet, Lord, you are our father. We are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the product of your labor.
Has the potter no right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special use and another for ordinary use?
One who argues with his creator is in grave danger, one who is like a mere shard among the other shards on the ground! The clay should not say to the potter, "What in the world are you doing? Your work lacks skill!"
"I, the Lord, say: 'O nation of Israel, can I not deal with you as this potter deals with the clay? In my hands, you, O nation of Israel, are just like the clay in this potter's hand.'
Your thinking is perverse! Should the potter be regarded as clay? Should the thing made say about its maker, "He didn't make me"? Or should the pottery say about the potter, "He doesn't understand"?
Man » A social being » Dominion of
For every kind of animal, bird, reptile, and sea creature is subdued and has been subdued by humankind.
Then God said, "Let us make humankind in our image, after our likeness, so they may rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move on the earth."
Every living creature of the earth and every bird of the sky will be terrified of you. Everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea are under your authority.
you appoint them to rule over your creation; you have placed everything under their authority,
You put all things under his control." For when he put all things under his control, he left nothing outside of his control. At present we do not yet see all things under his control,