Bible Verses About Soul
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Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
Scripture Passages
And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
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.
It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the Lord thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.
For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.
For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.
For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.
For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten.
For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, searching all the inward parts of the belly.
Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.
He that keepeth the commandment keepeth his own soul; but he that despiseth his ways shall die.
Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins, besides Jacobβs sonsβ wives, all the souls were threescore and six;
But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.
For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;
For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the earth.
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