ROM. VI, 23. For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is
eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
EZEK. XVIII, 4. Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father,
so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall
die.
2. CREATED IN THE IMAGE OF GOD.
(1.) _Dominion._
GEN. I, 26. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our
likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and
over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth,
and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created
he him; male and female created he them.
28. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and
multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion
over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every
living thing that moveth upon the earth.
PSALM VIII, 6. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy
hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:
7. All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
8. The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever
passeth through the paths of the seas.
(2.) _Spirituality._
ACTS VII, 59. And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying,
Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
NUM. XVI, 22. And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God
of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth
with all the congregation?
NUM. XXVII, 16. Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set
a man over the congregation.
JAMES II, 26. For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith
without works is dead also.
HEB. XII, 9. Furthermore, we have had fathers of our flesh which
corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be
in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
ACTS XVII, 28. For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as
certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his
offspring.
29. Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to
think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven
by art and man's device.
JOB XXXII, 8. But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the
Almighty giveth them understanding.
ECCL. III, 21. Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and
the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
JOB XXXIV, 14. If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself
his spirit and his breath.
ISAIAH LVII, 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.
ZECH. XII, 1. The burden of the word of the Lord for Israel, saith the
Lord, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of
the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
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