Bible Verses About Human Civilization

Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.

Lord, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him!

What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.

The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all, that ye say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.

All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?

Put them in fear, O Lord: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.

And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;

Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;

I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.

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.

And the Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.

The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.

And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:

Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?

And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.

And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.

And what the land is that they dwell in, whether it be good or bad; and what cities they be that they dwell in, whether in tents, or in strong holds;

And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

And they spake against the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods of the people of the earth, which were the work of the hands of man.

And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;

Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.

Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it.

The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.

And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

And when they went from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people;

Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge them? cause them to know the abominations of their fathers:

The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?