Quotes About Humanity

For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.

We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.

I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh; for I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.

For I do not do the good I want to do. Instead, I keep on doing the evil I do not want to do.

So this is the principle I have discovered: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me.

Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them proceeds the human descent of Christ, who is God over all, forever worthy of praise! Amen.

So then, it does not depend on manís desire or effort, but on Godís mercy.

One of you will say to me, “Then why does God still find fault? For who can resist His will?”

For God has consigned everyone to disobedience so that He may have mercy on everyone.

For the foolishness of God is wiser than manís wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than manís strength.

But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor

Now since the children have flesh and blood, He too shared in their humanity, so that by His death He might destroy him who holds the power of death, that is, the devil,

For surely it is not the angels He helps, but the descendants of Abraham.

For this reason He had to be made like His brothers in every way, so that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, in order to make atonement for the sins of the people.

Every high priest is appointed from among men to represent them in matters relating to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins.

With the tongue we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in Godís likeness.

Or do you think the Scripture says without reason that the Spirit He caused to dwell in us yearns with envy?

Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years.