What does the Bible say about man vs god?
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The Bible teaches that human beings are dependent creatures, fallen in sin, while God alone is perfectly good, sovereign, and able to save; therefore, man cannot stand against God or earn life apart from His grace. In Matthew 19:17, Jesus directs attention to God’s unique goodness, humbling human pride. Matthew 19:26 declares that what is impossible with man is possible with God, especially salvation. First Corinthians 13:1-13 shows that even impressive human gifts and achievements are empty without love, the enduring fruit God produces in His people. Rather than setting man and God as rivals, Scripture calls us to repent, trust Christ, and live humbly before the Lord who graciously gives all we need.
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- 1 Corinthians 13:1-13
[1] If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don't have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. [2] If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don't have love, I am nothing. [3] If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing. [4] Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud, [5] doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; [6] doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; [7] bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. [8] Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with. [9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; [10] but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with. [11] When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things. [12] For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known. [13] But now faith, hope, and love remain--these three. The greatest of these is love.
- Matthew 19:17
He said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good but one, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments."
- Matthew 19:26
Looking at them, Jesus said, "With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible."
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