Sunday, April 23, 2017

Positive Descriptions of Man in the Bible


Enoch

And Enoch walked with God: and he was not, for God took him. (Gen 5:24)

By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. (Heb 11:5)

Noah

These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God. (Gen 6:9)

And the Lord said unto Noah, Come though and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. (Gen 7:1)

Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. (1 Pet 3:20)

Abraham

And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect. (Gen 17:1)

And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised. (Rom 4:12)

Job

There was once a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil. (Job 1:1 | NRSV)

Daniel

Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord GOD. (Ezek 14:14)

Elizabeth and Zacharias

And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless. (Luke 1:6)

David

And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will (Acts 13:22)