100 Bible Verses About Humanity

Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.

And when the people were come into the wood, behold, the honey dropped; but no man put his hand to his mouth: for the people feared the oath.

And the children of Israel spake unto Moses, saying, Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish.

Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?

And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the Lord: for men abhorred the offering of the Lord.

And the Lord went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.

And let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave them, that she may glean them, and rebuke her not.

This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.

When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)

The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.

Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee; because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and he took it.

To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of his kingdom.

I said, I shall not see the Lord, even the Lord, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.

Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother’s womb.

And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.

The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.

I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people.

And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon,

And be ready against the third day: for the third day the Lord will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.

One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.

He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.

Therefore the men of Jabesh said, To morrow we will come out unto you, and ye shall do with us all that seemeth good unto you.

For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?

But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.

So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.

The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the Lord.

And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Beth–lehem.

For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.

The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.

Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.

A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.

And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?

For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.

Of all clean birds ye shall eat.

The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.

And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:

See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;

Men do therefore fear him: he respecteth not any that are wise of heart.

Wherefore glorify ye the Lord in the fires, even the name of the Lord God of Israel in the isles of the sea.

I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: and I will sing praises unto thee among the nations.

God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.

For by fire and by his sword will the Lord plead with all flesh: and the slain of the Lord shall be many.

And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.

And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.

So Job died, being old and full of days.

O give thanks unto the Lord; call upon his name: make known his deeds among the people.

Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee.

Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.

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

All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name.

And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what can the man do that cometh after the king? even that which hath been already done.

And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother;

Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, when he led thee by the way?

Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the Lord, and with your children’s children will I plead.

And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.

Come and see the works of God: he is terrible in his doing toward the children of men.

And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.

Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.

My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.

And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and intreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,

Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?

The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.

For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.

Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.

For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.

They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.

And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.

And the persons were sixteen thousand; of which the Lord’s tribute was thirty and two persons.

Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O Lord, thou preservest man and beast.

When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.

There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.

Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:

And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent.

The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.

The Lord shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah.

So the people rested on the seventh day.

Help, Lord; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.

So the heathen shall fear the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth thy glory.

Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?

And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.

If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?

For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.

The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the people see his glory.

If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?

Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands:

What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?

Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.

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.

He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.

And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:

Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand.