The word of God divides the soul and spirit very particularly. We read in Hebrew 4:12 “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit…” Again in 1 Thessalonians 5:23 “And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.” When we follow the scriptures we see a clear revelation of these things.
The Soul
In the bible man is spoken of as being a soul and having a soul; which are emphasis of different aspects of the same thing. When God formed man’s body of the dust of the earth and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life man became a living soul (Gen.2:7, 1 Cor.15:45). The soul cleaves unto the body which is of the dust (Gen.3:19- "dust thou art" Ps.119:25 "my soul cleaveth unto the dust" Ps. 44:25 "our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth") and abides in the body as a hand fits into a glove; both having the same shape. The soul contains the whole man (Psalm 103:1 Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me) including the mind, sight, hearing, speaking, tasting, the spirit, heart and understanding (2 Pet.2:8…in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;). It appears the soul is concerned predominantly with and motivated by external things (connected to the eyes). The body is a temple or tabernacle for the soul and spirit in the earth.
Paul acknowledged that full consciousness exists ‘out of the body’ (2 Cor.12: 1-4). Jesus indicated such to the thief before their deaths that not only was consciousness realized but interaction with others was likewise to be expected. (Luke 23:42-3) Paul also indicated for a Christian that interaction with Jesus himself was to be expected, stating "…our Lord Jesus Christ, [10] Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him." 1 Thes. 5:9-10 Not only was this expected but desired. Notice Philip. 1:21-23 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. [22] But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not. [23] For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better: 1 Kings17:21-22 When the widows son died, Elijah prayed 'let this CHILD'S SOUL come into him again'. The 'him' was referring to his body. And so the child’s soul LEFT, and then CAME into him again. In death the soul departs. Genesis 35:18 "And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died)" Psalm 90:10 says at death "we fly away". Maybe as Lazarus we will be "carried by the angels" (Lk.16:22). However we go, we depart to be with Christ (Phil.1:23) who is at the right hand of God in heaven (1 Peter3:22) Regardless, they will be with Christ before the resurrection of their bodies, notice 1 Thes. 4:14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God BRING WITH HIM. They must be with him if he brings them. Paul was confident to be absent from the body in death and present with the Lord; not only confident but willing rather (2 Cor.5:8). In Rev.20:4 the souls of those that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God are resurrected. In Rev. 6:9-11 I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: [10] And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? [11] And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled. Their souls wore clothes (which would make sense if you believe they were naked as indicated in Eccles. 5:15---As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came) They had memory, could rest, communicate with God, had emotion, could cry in a "loud voice"; very similar to the account given by Jesus in Luke 16:19-31. The full spectrum of senses is located in the soul as revealed in the story of Lazarus. The soul was carried by angels (v22). The soul had eyes (v23), had a tongue (v24), could speak (v24-31), hands (v24), had memory (v25), had limitations of movement (v26), could be comforted or tormented (v25), had the ability to drink some form of water (v24), could sense cool and heat (v24). Their souls appear as their bodies with bodily functions, insomuch that Paul could say "whether in the body or out of the body I cannot tell" (2 Cor.12: 1-4). This is man as a living soul.
People are spoken of as souls:
Genesis 46:18 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen souls. v22 These are the sons of Rachel, which were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.
v25-27 These are the sons of Bilhah, which Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and she bare these unto Jacob: all the souls were seven. [26] All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were threescore and six; [27] 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.
Joshua 10:39 And he took it, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof; and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining:
Joshua 11:11 And they smote all the souls that were therein with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them: there was not any left to breathe: and he burnt Hazor with fire.
Acts 2:41 Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
The man spoken of as being a soul existing in the body had the ability of the body:
Lev.5:2- Or if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether it be a carcase of an unclean beast…
Lev.7:20- But the soul that eateth of the flesh of the sacrifice…
Lev.17:12- Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood…
Lev.22:11- But if the priest buy any soul with his money… (speaking of a servant)
Lev.23:30- And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.
The soul has desires for things of the body; this is the man having a soul, or the functions of his soul:
Deut.12:15- …thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after…
v20- …will eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
Deut.14:26- And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household,
Prov.6:30- Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;
Prov.25:25- As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.
Prov.27:7- The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
Lam.1:19- …while they sought their meat to relieve their souls.
Even fasting from food humbles, chastens and afflicts the soul- (Psa.35:13, 69:10, Isa.58:5).
The soul is spoken of using terms related to the body:
Isaiah 29:8 It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.
Isaiah 32:6 ... to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
Psalm 42:1 As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
Psalm 42:2 My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?
Psalm 63:1 O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
Psalm 143:6 I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.
Lament. 1:11 All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O Lord, and consider; for I am become vile. v16 For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed. (also v19)
Prov. 13:19 The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.
Prov. 16:24 Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Prov. 27:7 The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
Psalm 107:9 For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.
Isaiah 58:10-11 ...satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday: [11] And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones...
The soul of man not only has to do with the things of the body but with relationships with other people and with the things of creation and the external world.
Soul has love and affection towards others:
Genesis 34:3, 8 And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel…And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife.
Deut. 6:5 (also 10:12, 11:13, 13:3, 30:6) And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
Deut. 13:6 If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul…
1 Samuel 18:1, 3 And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul…Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.
(see also)1 Samuel 19:2- But Jonathan Saul's son delighted much in David:
1 Samuel 20:17 And Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he loved him: for he loved him as he loved his own soul.
Psalm 42:1-2 As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. [2] My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?
Psalm 63:8 My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me.
Song 3:2 (also 1:7, 3:1, 3-4) I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth:
Isaiah 26:8-9 Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O Lord, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee. [9] With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early:
Acts 4:32 And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.
1 Thes. 2:8 So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.
2 Cor.7:15 And his inward affection is more abundant toward you…
The soul pities and has compassion, grace and mercy. Since the soul sees with the eyes, the eye is spoken of as pitying:
Ezekiel 24:21…the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword.
Deut. 7:16 And thou shalt consume all the people which the Lord thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.
Deut. 13:8 Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him:
Deut. 19:13 Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.
Deut. 19:21 And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
Proverbs 19:18 Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying. Remember James 2:13…mercy rejoiceth against judgment. (soul against spirit)
Isaiah 13:18 Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.
Jeremiah 13:14 (also 21:7) … I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.
Ezk.7:3-4 Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense upon thee all thine abominations. And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 8:18 Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.
Ezekiel 9:5 …let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity:
Ezekiel 9:10 And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will recompense their way upon their head.
Matthew 18:33 Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee?
Ezekiel 16:5 None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee;
1 John 3:17 But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
Genesis 43:30 And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother: and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there.
Song 5:4 My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.
Phil.2:1 If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
Col. 3:12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
Mercy and compassion are connected here:
2 Chron. 30:9 For if ye turn again unto the Lord, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the Lord your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him.
Isaiah 49:15 Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
Lament. 3:32 But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
Zech. 7:9 Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother:
1 Peter 3:8 Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
Grace and compassion are connected here:
2 Kings 13:23 And the Lord was gracious unto them, and had compassion on them, and had respect unto them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his presence as yet.
Psalm 78:38 But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.
Psalm 86:15 But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.
Psalm 103:8 The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
Psalm 111:4 He hath made his wonderful works to be remembered: the Lord is gracious and full of compassion.
Psalm 112:4 Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.
Psalm 145:8 The Lord is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.
Joel 2:13 …turn unto the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.
James 2:13…mercy rejoiceth against judgment. (soul against spirit)
Pleasure is experienced by the soul:
Prov.2:10 When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;
Matt.12:18...in whom my soul is well pleased
Heb.10:38...my soul shall have no pleasure in him
Gen.2:9...pleasant to the sight
Gen.3:6...pleasant to the eyes
1 Ki.20:6...whatsoever is pleasant in thine eyes
Ecc.11:7 Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun:
2 Sam.1:26 I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
Song.1:16 Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant
Mercy, grace and favour are connected here:
Genesis 19:19 Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life;
1 Sam.25:8… Wherefore let the young men find favour in thine eyes:
2 Chron. 30:9 For if ye turn again unto the Lord, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the Lord your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him.
Neh. 9:17 And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not.
Neh. 9:31 Nevertheless for thy great mercies' sake thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and merciful God.
Esther 2:17 And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.
James 2:13…and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.
The soul desires a variety of things in the world:
Eccles. 6:2 A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth…
Isaiah 26:8 the desire of our soul is to thy name v9 With my soul have I desired thee in the night
Deut. 14:26 And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there before the Lord thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household,
Genesis 3:16 thy desire shall be to thy husband,
Exodus 34:24 neither shall any man desire thy land,
Deut. 5:21 Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour's.
Deut. 7:25 thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the Lord thy God.
Deut. 21:11 a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife;
1 Kings 9:11 (Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,)
Job 13:3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
Job 21:14 Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
Psalm 45:11 So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty:
Psalm 73:25 Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.
Song 7:10 I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me.
1 Samuel 2:16 take as much as thy soul desireth;
1 Samuel 23:20 O king, come down according to all the desire of thy soul to come down;
1 Kings 11:37 And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign according to all that thy soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel.
Proverbs 13:4 The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat. (Here we see the soul desiring but a lack of spirit.)
Proverbs 13:19 The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul:
Isaiah 53:2 and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Daniel 11:37 the desire of women
Micah 7:1 … my soul desired the firstripe fruit.
2 Cor. 11:12 But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion;
2 Cor. 12:6 For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool;
Galatians 4:20 I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.
Galatians 6:12 As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised;
Philip. 1:23 having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:
Col. 1:9 do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
Hebrews 11:16 But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly:
1 Peter 2:2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
Rev. 9:6 desire to die
There are varying degrees of desire:
Romans 15:23 But now having no more place in these parts, and having a great desire these many years to come unto you;
1 Cor. 16:12 As touching our brother Apollos, I greatly desired him to come unto you with the brethren:
2 Cor. 7:7 …he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more.
2 Cor. 7:11 For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal…
1 Thes. 2:17…endeavoured the more abundantly to see your face with great desire.
The lust/desire of the eyes is a temptation directly of the soul:
Ezekiel 24:16, 21 Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke… Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth;
1 John 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
Eccles. 2:10 And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them…
The soul interacts with and responds to external things a number of ways:
1 Samuel 1:10 And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the Lord, and wept sore.
Job 7:11 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 10:1 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Psalm 94:17 Unless the Lord had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.
Psalm 34:2 My soul shall make her boast in the Lord: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.
Psalm 25:1 Unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.
Psalm 86:4 Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.
Proverbs 29:17 Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.
Isaiah 55:2 hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
Eccles. 2:24 ...than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour.
Psalm 35:9 And my soul shall be joyful in the Lord: it shall rejoice in his salvation.
Isaiah 61:10 I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God;
Psalm 63:5 My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness;
Psalm 107:9 For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.
Proverbs 6:30 Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;
Isaiah 58:10-11 ...satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday: [11] And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones...
Ezekiel 7:19 they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels:
3 John 2 Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
Psalm 11:5 The Lord trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
Isaiah 1:14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
Numbers 21:4... and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.
Psalm 44:25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
Psalm 57:6 They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down:
Psalm 42:5-6 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance. [6] O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar. [11] Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? (also Psalm 43:5)
Psalm 123:4 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.
Leviticus 16:31 It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls, by a statute for ever.
Isaiah 58:5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul?
Psalm 141:8 But mine eyes are unto thee, O God the Lord: in thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.
Numbers 11:5-6 We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: [6] But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
Acts 2:43 And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles.
Proverbs 19:15 Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Numbers 21:5 …Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.
Leviticus 26:11 And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.
Leviticus 26:15 And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:
Acts 15:24 …certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls…
2 Peter 2:14 … beguiling unstable souls:
Job 6:7 The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
Psalm 143:3 For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground…
Psalm 119:28 My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word.
1 Samuel 1:15 …I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunken neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the Lord.
Job 30:16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
Isaiah 53:12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death:
2 Kings 23:3 And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.
2 Chron. 34:31 And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book.
Ezekiel 18:4 …the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
Leviticus 4:2 …If a soul shall sin through ignorance against any of the commandments of the Lord concerning things which ought not to be done, and shall do against any of them:
Leviticus 5:17 And if a soul sin, and commit any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the Lord; though he wist it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.
Romans 2:9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil…
The soul communicates:
Genesis 27:25 And he said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless thee. (v27 blessed him, and said)
Psalm 16:2 O my soul, thou hast said unto the Lord, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee;
Psalm 103:1 Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.
The mind appears to be in the soul:
There is wisdom and knowledge in the soul which links it to the mind.
Proverbs 2:10 When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;
Proverbs 3:21-22 My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion: [22] So shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy neck.
Proverbs 15:32 He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul:
Proverbs 19:2 Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good;
Proverbs 24:14 So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul:
Rev. 17:9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom.
Job 23:13 But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.
Hebrews 8:10 “For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: (10:16) “I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;”
Memory is in the mind and soul
Lament. 3:20-21 My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me. [21] This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
To remember is to ‘call to mind’- Isaiah 46:8 Remember this, and shew yourselves men: bring it again to mind, O ye transgressors. Isaiah 65:17…the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
Psalm 103:2 Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
Psalm 31:12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind:
Comparing these two verses we see a link between the mind and soul:
Ezekiel 24:21 Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword.
Ezekiel 24:25 Also, thou son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their minds, their sons and their daughters,
We see further that the mind is located in the head:
Eccles. 2:14 The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness:
Daniel 2:28 Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these;
Daniel 4:5 I saw a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.
Daniel 4:10 Thus were the visions of mine head in my bed; (also v13)
Daniel 7:15 I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me. (v28) As for me Daniel, my cogitations much troubled me, and my countenance changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart.
God condemns a mans mind/head and heart.
Isaiah 1:5 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
2 Cor. 3:14 But their minds were blinded:
2 Cor. 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not…
Hebrews 10:16 …I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
Romans 7:23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind…
Titus 1:15 …unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
(The heart is in the breast area- Exodus 28:29-30 And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth in unto the holy place, for a memorial before the Lord continually.[30] And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron's heart, when he goeth in before the Lord: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart before the Lord continually.)
The spirit through the heart (out of it are the issues of life- Prv.4:23) quickens the mind of man:
Ephes. 4:23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
2 Cor. 7:7…your fervent mind toward me; (The spirit is analogous with fire- Prv.20:27, Psa.39:3, Ezek.3:14)
Romans 12:2 :but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind…
Being in the head and connected with the soul and the eyes the mind collects information from the senses and analyzes it with wisdom; ‘the mind that hath wisdom’.
Judges 19:30…consider of it, take advice, and speak your minds.
1 Samuel 9:20 And as for thine asses that were lost three days ago, set not thy mind on them; for they are found…
2 Samuel 17:8 For, said Hushai, thou knowest thy father and his men, that they be mighty men, and they be chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field: and thy father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.
2 Chron. 24:4 And it came to pass after this, that Joash was minded to repair the house of the Lord.
Neh. 4:6 …for the people had a mind to work.
Proverbs 29:11 A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards.
Isaiah 26:3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
Jeremiah 15:1 Then said the Lord unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.
Jeremiah 19:5 They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:
Ezekiel 20:32 And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all, that ye say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.
Ezekiel 23:17-18 And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them. [18] So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister.
Ezekiel 24:25 Also, thou son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their minds, their sons and their daughters,
Ezekiel 38:10 Thus saith the Lord God; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
Habakkuk 1:11 Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god.
Matthew 1:19 Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily.
Luke 1:29 And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be.
Acts14:2 But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds evil affected against the brethren.
Acts 17:11 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so. (Mark 14:38 The spirit truly is ready)
Acts 28:6 Howbeit they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.
Romans 8:5-7 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. [6] For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. [7] Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
Romans 14:5 One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
2 Cor. 1:17 When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay?
2 Cor. 11:3 …as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
Ephes. 2:3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind;
2 Thes. 2:2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
Titus 3:1 Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,
Philemon 1:14 But without thy mind would I do nothing; that thy benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly.
Hebrews 11:15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.
James 1:8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
2 Peter 3:1 This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:
Rev. 17:9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom.
So the mind uses wisdom analyzing information until it fits into the understanding of the heart. The mind can be defiled by the lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes and pride of life;
2 Tim. 3:8 ...men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
Titus 1:15 Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
1 Tim. 6:5 Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds…
Col. 1:21 And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
Col. 2:18 …intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
Philip. 3:19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
Philip. 2:3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
Daniel 5:20 …his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride…
Ephes. 4:17 …walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
Ephes. 2:3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
Romans 8:5-7 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. [6] For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. [7] Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
Rom 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
Proverbs 21:27 The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind?
Ezekiel 38:10…that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
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The Spirit of Man
The spirit is the life of a man; it is what animates his body and soul, heart and mind. It is also the ‘will to live’. The soul would manifest desire where the spirit would manifest diligence or drive.
At death the spirit departs from the body.
Genesis 2:7 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.
Job 32:8 …there is a spirit in man:
Daniel 7:15 I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of my body…
James 2:26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
Zech. 12:1 …saith the Lord, which …formeth the spirit of man within him.
1 Cor. 2:11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him…
Eccles. 11:5 As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: (Luke 24:39 … for a spirit hath not flesh and bones…)
Eccles. 8:8 There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death:
Eccles. 12:7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
Luke 8:55 And her spirit came again, and she arose straightway: and he commanded to give her meat.
Genesis 45:27 And they told him all the words of Joseph…the spirit of Jacob their father revived:
Judges 15:19 …and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived:
Ephes. 4:23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
Job 20:3 …and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
1 Samuel 30:12 …and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him: for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights.
Luke 23:46 Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.
Acts 7:59 And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
At death the spirit comes up out of a man, and he is said to give up the ghost (perhaps through the nostrils):
Eccles. 3:21 Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
Genesis 25:8 Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.
Genesis 49:33 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.
Job 14:10 But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
Acts 5:10 Then fell she down straightway at his feet, and yielded up the ghost: and the young men came in, and found her dead, and, carrying her forth, buried her by her husband.
This appears to be related to his breath in his nostrils.
Genesis 2:7 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.
Job 27:3 All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;
Job 34:14 If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;
Isaiah 42:5 Thus saith God the Lord…he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:
1 Kings 17:17 …and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him.
Job 12:10 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
Isaiah 2:22 Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?
2 Kings 4:35 Then he returned, and walked in the house to and fro; and went up, and stretched himself upon him: and the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.
Acts 17:25 … he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
Daniel 10:17 For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? for as for me, straightway there remained no strength in me, neither is there breath left in me.
Also between the spirit and the bones (maybe the spirit is manifested through the bones- some association with blood?):
Proverbs 17:22 A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
Ecclesiastes 11:5 As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
Proverbs 25:15 By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.
Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow…
The spirit of man is what motivates him, what sustains him, what gives him his drive:
Matthew 26:41 …the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
Mark 14:38 The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.
Luke 1:80 And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit…
Luke 2:40 And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit…
Acts 17:16 …his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.
Acts 18:5 ...Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ.
Acts 18:25 …and being fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord…
Acts 19:21 After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit...
Acts 20:22 And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem…
Romans 1:9 For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son…(2 Corinthians 4:13 the same spirit of faith)
Romans 12:11 Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
Exodus 35:21 And they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one whom his spirit made willing…
1 Chron. 5:26 And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria…
Deut. 2:30 ...hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate…
Isa.50:7 For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed. (shame is from the conscience)
Ezek.3:9 As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.
Ezekiel 13:3 …follow their own spirit…
Job 32:18 For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me.
Psalm 77:6 …and my spirit made diligent search.
Isaiah 26:9 …with my spirit within me will I seek thee early:
Psalm 78:8 ...whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
Proverbs 11:13 A talebearer revealeth secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter.
Proverbs 13:4 The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat. (Here we see the soul desiring but a lack of spirit.)
Proverbs 14:29 …but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
Eccles. 7:8-9...the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
Eccles. 10:4 If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences.
Isaiah 38:16 O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.
Proverbs 18:14 The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?
2 Corinthians 4:13 We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;
When a person is overwhelmed, wounded or sad in spirit, they lose their motivation or they lose spirit:
Psalm 77:3 I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
Psalm 142:3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path.
Psalm 143:4 Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
Proverbs 18:14 The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?
1 Kings 21:5 Why is thy spirit so sad, that thou eatest no bread?
Joshua 5:1 And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, which were on the side of Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, which were by the sea, heard that the Lord had dried up the waters of Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we were passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel. (2:11 And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for the Lord your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath.)
1 Kings 10:5 And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of the Lord; there was no more spirit in her.
2 Chron. 9:4 And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel; his cupbearers also, and their apparel; and his ascent by which he went up into the house of the Lord; there was no more spirit in her.
Matthew 5:3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
The spirit is analogous to fire:
Proverbs 20:27 The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, searching all the inward parts of the belly.
Isaiah 4:4 …by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
Ezekiel 3:14… and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit;
Fervent means heat (2 Peter 3:10 and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up), and so we find in Acts 18:25 …fervent in the spirit…and again Romans 12:11 …fervent in spirit…
Deut. 19:6 Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him…
Psalm 39:3 My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue, (Job 32:8, 18-19 But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding…For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me. Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles.)
Anger, indignation and jealousy are produced by the spirit and are associated with fire:
Prov. 16:32 He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
Prov. 14:29 He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly. Ecc.7:9 Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry:
Exodus 32:19 …Moses' anger waxed hot…
Deut. 9:19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the Lord was wroth against you to destroy you...
Numbers 5:14 And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled:
Deut. 4:24 For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.
Deut. 6:15 (For the Lord thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the Lord thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.
Deut. 29:20 The Lord will not spare him, but then the anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke against that man…
Deut. 29:24 …what meaneth the heat of this great anger?
Psalm 79:5 How long, Lord? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
Proverbs 6:34 For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
Song 8:6 …jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
Isaiah 42:13 The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war:
Zeph. 3:8 …pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.
Zech. 8:2 Thus saith the Lord of hosts; I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great fury.
Proverbs 27:4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
James 4:5 The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy
Ezk 24:8 That it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance;
Dt.32:35 To me belongeth vengeance and recompence;
Num.5:7 Then they shall confess their sin which they have done: and he shall recompense his trespass with the principal thereof, and add unto it the fifth part thereof, and give it unto him against whom he hath trespassed.
Jer.51:6…for this is the time of the Lord's vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence.
Romans 12:19 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. Romans 13:4 For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
Jeremiah 51:11 Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the Lord hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance of his temple.
Ezk.7:3-4 Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense upon thee all thine abominations. And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
The anger, and jealousy from the spirit would come from the conscience, which is of the heart; and an understanding of good and evil. The heart is the real you, the final will with man (see below). The heart is in the spirit (Romans 2:29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit… also compare Dt.29:4 w/ Mk.2:8) which is why they are closely associated in many passages:
Exodus 35:21...every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one whom his spirit made willing…
Deut. 2:30...hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate…
Joshua 5:1… their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more
Psalm 34:18 The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
Psalm 51:17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
Psalm 77:6 …I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.
Psalm 143:4 Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
Proverbs 15:13 A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
Proverbs 17:22 A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
Isaiah 57:15…with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
Isaiah 65:14...ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit.
Ezekiel 11:19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you;
Ezekiel 18:31…make you a new heart and a new spirit…
Ezekiel 21:7…every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint…
Ezekiel 36:26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you:
1 Peter 3:4 But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
So then judgment is in the spirit from the heart which is where the conscience is.
1 Cor.10:29…for why is my liberty judged of another man's conscience?
John 8:9…they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one
Romans 2:15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)
Titus 1:15 Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
Hebrews 10:22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
1 John 3:20-21 For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. [21] Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.
1 Sam. 24:5 And it came to pass afterward, that David's heart smote him…
1 Cor. 5:3 For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,
Romans 9:1 I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost- (the Spirit of God is in our heart who believe- Rom.5:5, 8:16, 27, 2 Cor.1:22, Gal.4:6, Eph.3:16-17, 1 Pet.3:15)
1 Tim. 1:5 Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:
Isaiah 4:4 …the spirit of judgment...
Isaiah 28:6 And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment…
1 Cor. 2:15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
The mind being persuaded in a certain thing can effect the conscience. A man can sin by having doubt, while the thing in question is not a sin before God.
1 Cor.8:7 Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.
1 Cor.8:10 For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols;
1Cor.10:25 Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake:
Heb.9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Rom.14:1-5 Him that is weak in the faith (faith and conscience are connected here; if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.-1 Jn 3:21) receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations. For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs. Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him. Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand. One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. (v14) I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean. (v23) And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.
Col.2:16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
Acts 15:10 Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
Repentance is the mind being persuaded, and faith is the heart believing.
Rom.14:5 Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
Luke 16:30-1 And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent. And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.
Act 19:26 Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands:
Ezek.14:6 … Thus saith the Lord GOD; Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.
Ezek.18:30 …Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
Act 8:37 And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
Rom 10:9-10 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Luk 24:25 Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:
Mar 11:23 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
The heart is in the breast area (and is in the spirit)- Exodus 28:29-30 And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth in unto the holy place, for a memorial before the Lord continually.[30] And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron's heart, when he goeth in before the Lord: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart before the Lord continually.)
The understanding is in the heart, and is necessary for judgment:
Exodus 36:1...every wise hearted man, in whom the Lord put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that the Lord had commanded.
1 Kings 3:9 Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?
1 Kings 3:11-12 … but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment; [12] Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart;
Job 20:3 I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
Job 32:8 But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.
Job 28:20 Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?
Job 38:36 Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart?
Psalm 49:3 My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.
Proverbs 2:2 …incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;
Prov.8:5 O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.
Proverbs 14:29 He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
Proverbs 17:27 He that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.
Daniel 5:12...an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and shewing of hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel…(6:3)…an excellent spirit was in him...
Daniel 10:12 …from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand…
Isaiah 6:10...understand with their heart...
Isaiah 29:24 They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding…
Isa.44:18 …and their hearts, that they cannot understand.
Colossians 1:9 …the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
Isaiah 44:18 They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.
Ephes. 1:17-18 …may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: [18] The eyes of your understanding being enlightened;
So then the conscience is what gives men an understanding of right and wrong; a sense of responsibility and duty, a sense of judgment and justice. Understanding itself appears to be wisdom related to the knowledge of God and the conscience (see above also); the ability to apply God’s revelation to everything; assimilating every thought into a worldview. Or in other words fitting smaller truths within a broader framework. If we think of a puzzle, the pieces are knowledge, we use wisdom to put the pieces in the correct positions, and when we begin to see the picture, we have understanding.
Prov.9:10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
Deut.4:6 Keep therefore and do them (the commandments); for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
Deut.32:28 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.
1 Chron.22:12 Only the LORD give thee wisdom and understanding, and give thee charge concerning Israel , that thou mayest keep the law of the LORD thy God.
2Pe 3:16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood…
Neh.8:2 And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month. (v8) So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.
Job 28:28 And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
Job 38:4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
Job 42:3 Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
Psalm 32:8-9 I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye. Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding:
Psalm 111:10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.
Psa 119:34 Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
Psa 119:99 I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.
Psa 119:104 Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.
Psa 119:130 The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.
Pro 6:32 But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
Pro 9:6 Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
Pro 10:23 It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.
Pro 14:29 He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
Pro 14:33 Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding: but that which is in the midst of fools is made known.
Pro 15:21 Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly.
Pro 15:32 He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding.
Pro 16:22 Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.
Pro 17:24 Wisdom is before him that hath understanding;
Pro 17:28 Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.
Pro 19:25 Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.
Pro 21:16 The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.
Pro 28:2 For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof: but by a man of understanding and knowledge the state thereof shall be prolonged.
Pro 28:16 The prince that wanteth understanding is also a great oppressor: but he that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days.
Isa 27:11 …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 show them no favor.
Isa 29:24 They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.
Isa 44:19 And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?
Jer 3:15 And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
Jer 4:22 For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
Jer 5:21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:
Dan 1:4 Children in whom was no blemish, but well favored, and skillful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science…
Dan 1:17 As for these four children, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.
Dan 4:34 And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honored him that liveth forever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation:
Dan 9:2 In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem .
Luk 1:3 It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus,
1Co 13:11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
Luk 24:45 Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,
1Co 14:20 Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
Mat 16:12 Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
Luk 9:45 But they understood not this saying, and it was hid from them, that they perceived it not:
Joh 10:6 This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.
Act 7:25 For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not.
Eph 4:18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
Rom1: 20-21 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
Eph 5:17 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
Col 2:2 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;
1Jn 5:20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
Understanding is the ability to explain information correctly, where knowledge allows simply to repeat information. Understanding is used as interpreting or expounding also:
Gen 42:23 And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spoke unto them by an interpreter.
Neh.8:8 So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.
Psa 81:5 This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt : where I heard a language that I understood not.
Psa 106:7 Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt ; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea .
1Co 14:9 So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken?
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. And so wisdom uses and makes judgment with knowledge according to the understanding. Again like the puzzle analogy, understanding is the picture, knowledge is the pieces, and wisdom discerns which pieces fit in which places based upon the picture.
Prov.15:2 The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: (v7) The lips of the wise disperse knowledge:
Prov.13:16 Every prudent man dealeth with knowledge:
Exodus 36:1...every wise hearted man, in whom the Lord put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that the Lord had commanded.
Wisdom would be understood today to be logic, math, geometry etc. self verifying (axiomatic) principles. We see men applying these principles to work in certain materials on the tabernacle and temple.
Exod.31:3-5 And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship, To devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, And in cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of timber, to work in all manner of workmanship.
Exod.35:31-5 And he hath filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship; And to devise curious works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, And in the cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of wood, to make any manner of cunning work. And he hath put in his heart that he may teach, both he, and Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work.
1Ki 7:14 …a worker in brass: and he was filled with wisdom, and understanding, and cunning to work all works in brass.
Pro 8:12 I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.
Ecc 10:10 If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.
That it is self verifying is seen here:
Pro 1:20 Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words…
Pro 8:1-4 Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice? She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths. She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors. Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.
A mans spirit must be controlled.
Proverbs 25:28 He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.
Proverbs 16:32 He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
1 Cor. 14:32 And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.
This rule will be seen in terms of not speaking or acting out at the wrong time, or excessively, or the wrong things.
Proverbs 11:13 A talebearer revealeth secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter.
Proverbs 14:29 He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
Proverbs 17:27 He that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.v28 Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.
Luke 9:54-56 And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did? [55] But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. [56] For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them. And they went to another village.
Isaiah 29:24 They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding…
Anger rests on the edge of sin and must be controlled diligently.
Ephes. 4:26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
Eccles. 7:8-9...the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit. [9] Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
Proverbs 14:17 He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly:
Proverbs 29:22 An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.
Matthew 5:22 But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment:
James 1:19-20 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: [20] For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
Isaiah 16:6 We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so.
Proverbs 21:24 Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who dealeth in proud wrath.
Proverbs 12:16 A fool's wrath is presently known: but a prudent man covereth shame.
Pride is from an unruly spirit (the proud in spirit Eccles. 7:8). Proverbs 16:18 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. Isaiah 9:9…the pride and stoutness of heart…
Jeremiah 48:29 We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart.
One who is self willed, and presumptuous:
Job 33:17 That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.
Psalm 131:1 Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.
1 Tim. 3:6 Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.
2 Peter 2:10 But chiefly them that…despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled…
Proverbs 16:19 Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.
Proverbs 29:23 A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.
Philip. 2:8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
Jeremiah 44:10 They are not humbled even unto this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes...
2 Chron. 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways;
1 Peter 5:5-6 Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.[6] Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:
Matthew 18:4 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
1 Kings 3:7 And now, O Lord my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in. v9 Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?
A spirit that is ruled well is a meek and quiet and humble spirit:
1Pet.3:4 But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price. (v1 ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands;)
Prov.16:19 Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.
Prov. 29:23 A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.
Eccles. 7:8-9...the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit. (Notice patience is contrasted with pride; again the man that is hasty or impatient is proud and self willed) [9] Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
A spirit that is humble and quiet is not purposed upon seeking to exalt one’s self. Rather is a poor and broken spirit:
Isa.66:2 …but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.
Matt.5:3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Psalm 34:18 The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
Psalm 51:9-10 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. (v17) The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
Prov.15:13…by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
2 Cor 7:10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of:
The spirit can also be defiled:
Proverbs 15:4 A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
2 Cor. 7:1...let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
Psalm 32:2 Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
Isaiah 29:24 They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding…
Isaiah 19:14 The Lord hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.
The heart is the real you, the ‘I am’, the final will in the counsels of the soul and mind, spirit and conscience.
Exodus 25:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering: of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering.
Exodus 28:29-30 And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth in unto the holy place, for a memorial before the Lord continually.
[30] And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron's heart, when he goeth in before the Lord: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart before the Lord continually.
Exodus 35:5 Take ye from among you an offering unto the Lord: whosoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, an offering of the Lord; gold, and silver, and brass,
Exo 35:29 The children of Israel brought a willing offering unto the LORD, every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all manner of work, which the LORD had commanded to be made by the hand of Moses.
Exodus 35:35 Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work.
Exodus 36:2 And Moses called Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whose heart the Lord had put wisdom, even every one whose heart stirred him up to come unto the work to do it:
Deut. 4:29 But if from thence thou shalt seek the Lord thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.
Deut. 29:4 Yet the Lord hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.
Deut. 30:10 If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.
Judges 16:15 And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart is not with me?
Prov.23:26 My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
1 Samuel 16:7 But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.
1 Kings 3:9 Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?
2 Kings 10:15 And when he was departed thence, he lighted on Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him: and he saluted him, and said to him, Is thine heart right, as my heart is with thy heart? And Jehonadab answered, It is. If it be, give me thine hand. And he gave him his hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot.
2 Chron. 16:9 For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars.
Job 38:36 Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart?
Psalm 66:18 If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:
Psalm 139:23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
Proverbs 4:4 He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
Pro 4:23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
Proverbs 23:7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.
Proverbs 27:19 As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.
Jeremiah 17:9-10 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? [10] I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
Ezekiel 14:3 Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be enquired of at all by them?
Ezekiel 14:7 For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that sojourneth in Israel, which separateth himself from me, and setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to a prophet to enquire of him concerning me; I the Lord will answer him by myself:
Ezekiel 36:26 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.
Daniel 1:8 But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.
Daniel 10:12 Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words.
Matthew 5:28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Matthew 6:21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Matthew 12:34-35 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. [35] A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
Matthew 15:8 This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
Matthew 15:18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.
Mark 2:8 And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts?
(Perceptions are in the heart which is in the spirit- Deut.29:4 Yet the Lord hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.)
Mark 11:23 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
Mark 16:14 Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.
Luke 5:22 But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answering said unto them, What reason ye in your hearts?
Luke 24:25 Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:
Acts 5:3-4 But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? [4] Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
Acts 8:37 And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
Romans 2:29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
Romans 6:17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
Romans 10:9-10 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. [10] For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
1 Cor. 7:37 Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.
Ephes. 4:18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
Ephes. 5:19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
Hebrews 3:10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
Hebrews 3:12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
1 Peter 3:4 But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
When a person experiences anything, their mind is gathering information through the senses. The heart and mind both analyze the information with thoughts and intentions provided by the conscience, soul and spirit and body. The heart, containing the final will of the person also prompts the mind to think and remember:
Deut. 30:1…thou shalt call them to mind…
1 Samuel 9:20 …set not thy mind on them;
1 Chron. 16:15 Be ye mindful always of his covenant;
1 Chron. 28:9 …serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts:
Ezra 7:13…which are minded of their own freewill to go up to Jerusalem...
Neh. 9:17 And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks…
Ruth 1:18 When she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, then she left speaking unto her.
Isaiah 26:3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
Isaiah 46:8 Remember this, and shew yourselves men: bring it again to mind, O ye transgressors.
Lament. 3:21 This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
Ezekiel 24:25…that whereupon they set their minds
Daniel 5:20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride…
Matthew 1:19 …not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily.
Luke 1:29 …she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be.
Acts 14:2 …the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds evil affected against the brethren.
Acts 28:6 …after they had looked a great while, and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.
Romans 12:16 Mind not high things…
1 Cor. 1:10 Now I beseech you…that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
2 Cor. 8:12 For if there be first a willing mind… (v19) …your ready mind…
Philip. 3:19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
Titus 2:6 Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.
James 1:8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
1 Peter 1:13 …gird up the loins of your mind, be sober…
1 Peter 4:1 …arm yourselves likewise with the same mind…
2 Peter 3:1-2 This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance: [2] That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:
The spirit moves the soul and also the soul effects the spirit. They meet in the heart and influence each other:
Isaiah 26:9 With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early:
Luke 1:46-47 And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, [47] And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
1 Samuel 1:15 And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunken neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the Lord.
Job 7:11 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
Eccles. 6:9 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
Psalm 119:28 My soul melteth for heaviness: (heaviness is from the spirit- Isaiah 61:3 the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness;)
Job 7:11 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. Ezek.3:14 … and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit;
(Bitterness is found with the soul: 1 Sam.1:10 And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the LORD, and wept sore
Job 3:20 …and life unto the bitter in soul; Job 21:25 And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.)
The soul and spirit both are to serve God:
Serve
Rom 1:9 For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son…
Rom 7:6 …we should serve in newness of spirit …
Deut 10:12…to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,
Josh 22:5… serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Bless
Psa. 103:1, 2, 22 Bless the LORD, O my soul:
Psa 104:1 Bless the LORD, O my soul.
1 Cor.14:16…when thou shalt bless with the spirit…
Prays
Psa 16:2 O my soul, thou hast soul unto the LORD, Thou art my Lord:
Luk 1:46 And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord,
1Co 14:14-15 For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful. What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
Seek
Isa.26:9 … with my spirit within me will I seek thee early…
Deu 4:29 But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.
1Ch 22:19 Now set your heart and your soul to seek the LORD your God;
Here are instances of a unified state of the soul and spirit:
Vexed
2 Kings 4:27 …And the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul is vexed within her: and the Lord hath hid it from me, and hath not told me.
Job 19:2 How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
Job 27:2 As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;
Psalm 6:3 My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O Lord, how long?
2 Peter 2:8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)
Eccles. 1:14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Eccles. 1:17 And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
Eccles. 2:17 Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Eccles. 4:6 Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
Isaiah 65:14 Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit.
Anguish
Genesis 42:21 And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
Exodus 6:9 And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.
Romans 2:9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil…
Job 7:11 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
Grieved
Isaiah 54:6 For the Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.
Daniel 7:15 I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.
1 Samuel 30:6 And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God.
Job 30:25 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?
Troubled
Genesis 41:8 And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled;
Job 21:4 As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?
Daniel 2:1 Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him.
Daniel 2:3 I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream.
John 11:33 When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,
John 13:21 When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in spirit, and testified, and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me.
John 12:27 Now is my soul troubled;
Psalm 107:26 …their soul is melted because of trouble.
Psalm 143:11 Quicken me, O Lord, for thy name's sake: for thy righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble.
Sorrow
Jeremiah 31:25 For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.
Matthew 26:38 Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death:
Mark 14:34 And saith unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death:
1 Samuel 1:15 And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit:
Faint
Psalm 84:2 My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
Psalm 107:5 Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
Psalm 119:81 My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.
Ezekiel 21:7…and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water:
Jonah 2:7 When my soul fainted within me I remembered the Lord:
Lusted
Deut. 12:20 When the Lord thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
Deut. 14:26 And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there before the Lord thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household,
James 4:5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
1 John 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life (spirit)…
Rev. 18:14 And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all.
Breaks
Psa 119:20 My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times.
Pro 15:13 A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
Pro 17:22 A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
Fails
Isa 57:16 For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.
Song 5:6 I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spoke: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.
Knows
Psa 139:14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
1Co 2:11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him?
Proverbs 20:27 The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, searching all the inward parts of the belly
Humbled
Psa 35:13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
Lam 3:20 My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
Pro 16:19 Better it is to be of a humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.
Pro 29:23 A man's pride shall bring him low: but honor shall uphold the humble in spirit.
Isa 57:15 For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit…
Rest
2Co 2:13 I had no rest in my spirit…
Psa 116:7 Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the LORD hath dealt bountifully with thee.
Refresh
Prov. 25:13… for he refresheth the soul of his masters.
1Co 16:18 For they have refresh my spirit…
Rejoice
Luk 1:47 And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Savior.
Luk 10:21 In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth…
Psa 35:9 And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation.
Psa 86:4 Rejoice the soul of thy servant:
Analogically we can think of the body like the temple of God. The body is said to be the temple of the Holy Ghost for the believer (1 Cor.6:19). Psalm 96:6 states that “strength and beauty are in his sanctuary”. We can think of the spirit as strength and the soul as beauty. Strength and beauty characterize men and women, and we find in the scriptures that the soul is spoken of in the feminine while the spirit in masculine terms.
The soul is female:
Psalm 34:2 My soul shall make her boast in the LORD:
Jer.12:7 …I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.
Psa 22:20 Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog. (darling- cherished or loved [see Eph.5:29] very much; pleasing or attractive. love as a function of the soul- see above)
Psa 35:17… rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.
The spirit and the heart in the spirit is male:
1Pe 3:4 But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit
Eph 3:16 …to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; (he that is joined to the Lord is one spirit- 1 Cor.6:17)
Prov.14:10 The heart knoweth his own bitterness;
Eph 4:24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
Men are noted in scripture for their physical strength as well as courage:
Job 38:3 Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
Pro 20:29 The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head.
1Co 16:13 Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
Psa 147:10 He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man.
1Ki 2:2 I go the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and show thyself a man;
1Sa 4:9 Be strong, and quit yourselves like men…quit yourselves like men, and fight.
Deu 31:6 Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them:
Jos 1:9 Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
Jos 2:11 And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man because of you: for the LORD your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath.
2Sa 10:12 Be of good courage, and let us play the men for our people, and for the cities of our God: with 1Ch 19:13 Be of good courage, and let us behave ourselves valiantly for our people, and for the cities of our God:
Joshua 5:1 And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, which were on the side of Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, which were by the sea, heard that the Lord had dried up the waters of Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we were passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel. (2:11 And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for the Lord your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath.)
Although some men are spoken of as beautiful, and the scriptures mention the ‘beauty of a man’ (Isa.44:13, 2 Sam.14:25, 1 Sam.16:12) it is self evident that woman are more beautiful than men (numerous beauty contests). Also the scriptures associate beauty with women more often.
Gen 12:11 And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon:
Gen 29:17 Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favored.
Est 1:11 To bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to show the people and the princes her beauty: for she was fair to look on.
Est 2:7 … the maid was fair and beautiful … v15 Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked upon her.
Psa 45:11 So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him.
Pro 6:25 Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
Pro 31:30 Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.
Lam 1:6 And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed:
Eze 16:14 And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD.
Eze 16:15 But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown…
Deu 21:11 And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife;
1 Sam.25:3 … the name of his wife Abigail: and she was a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance…
2 Sam.11:2 … and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.
Song.6:13 Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon thee.
Beauty appeals to the eyes and thus the soul. A beautiful person is usually favoured over others because of the desire to look upon beauty, the desire of the eyes; it is pleasurable and delightful to admire their beauty. And ultimately God made man male and female in his image to manifest his mercy and truth. His goodness and severity, his beauty and strength, his law and grace, his nurture and admonition, his righteousness and peace. Not only has he made man and woman to represent these attributes of his nature, but also he made every man and woman with a soul and spirit. The mother and father in their respective positions in the home reveal to a child the nature of God the Father. The honor belonging to a father and mother is not just a child’s duty to man to display but a child’s duty to God. Likewise parents must take very seriously their representation of the nature of God in their roles as parents so as not to corrupt the understanding of the child.
Ephesians 6:1-3 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise; That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.
Deu 27:16 Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Mat 15:4 For God commanded, saying, Honor thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
The distinction between male and female is to be made even in the putting on of apparel, and length of hair.
Deu 22:5 The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
1 Cor. 11:14-5 Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him? But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.
And so when we read “the head of the woman is the man” and again “as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing” (1 Cor.11:3, Eph.5:24), we should also understand that the soul should be led and directed by the spirit with understanding. When the scripture saith “Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;” and again “So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:” (Eph.5:25, 28-9), we should also understand the spirit should motivate the soul and develop it in its beautiful nature created by God. The spirit should carve out the banks for the soul to flow as a river. The spirit should break up the ground and water the soul so that it will develop into a beautiful plant and “her own works praise her in the gates”. The woman is to be protected by the man (Num.30:4-16).
This is the nature of the ‘husband’. A husband is a steward of the house; husbandry is stewardship of land in farming with beasts of burden. We find God placing the first man in a garden to ‘dress it and keep it’ Gen. 2:15. We see that Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard- Gen.9:20. The husbandman would keep the cattle (Zec.13:5), the wheat and barley (Joel 1:11), the vineyards (Mt.21:33, Jn.15:1). The Lord shows himself a husbandman waiting for the precious fruit of the earth (Ja.5:7). Indeed “The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.” (2 Tim.2:6).
When the bible admonishes “Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression” (1 Tim.2:12-14) we can likewise understand that the soul must not guide and instruct the spirit else the man will be deceived. His desires and longings if not kept in check by the conscience will overflow its banks and trespass. His soul’s great longings must be restrained by a right spirit.
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