Bible Dictionary: Man: More Valuable than Other Creatures

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Matthew 6:26
Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much better than they?
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Matthew 10:31
Fear you not therefore, you are of more value than many sparrows.
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Matthew 12:12
How much then is a man better than a sheep? Why it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.
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The Great Duty of Charity Recommended
... this is to God, how delightful it is to man, and how ... And is not the soul more valuable
than the body? ... or a horse- race, with them; but on the other hand, you ...
/.../whitefield/selected sermons of george whitefield/the great duty of charity.htm

On the End of Man
... piece of rag, if the kite"the valuable thing"is ... upon the earth is a thousand times
more nearly our equal than the most perfect creature, man or angel ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/kinkead/baltimore catechism no 4/lesson 1 on the end.htm

Use to be Made of the Doctrine of Providence.
... of wickedness belongs to the wicked man, why should ... men and then with the other
creatures, he will ... the application, that being more valuable than many sparrows ...
/.../calvin/the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 17 use to be.htm

xiv. Upon the Love of God.
... Now if a man approves of, or hath an affection to ... fixed, steady, equally unmoved
by weak pity or more weak fury ... he hath to do, as in itself right and valuable. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/butler/human nature/sermon xiii xiv upon the.htm

Of the Use of Speech.
... that which possesses us of the most valuable blessing of ... life, I mean Friendship,
which could no more have been ... excellent uses of it in respect to man, we may ...
/.../allestree/the government of the tongue/section i of the use.htm

The General Deliverance
... view of the one, we may conceive the other. ... which was his highest excellence, far
more valuable than all the ... This was the supreme perfection of man; (as it is ...
/.../wesley/sermons on several occasions/sermon 60 the general deliverance.htm

The Well-Beloved.
... think of Him as comparable to anything less valuable than "fine gold ... a whole, in
reference to God, to man, to His ... Some of you are more at home in this assembly ...
//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/till he come/the well-beloved.htm

Against Excessive Fondness for Jewels and Gold Ornaments.
... Eve, so also has ornament of gold maddened other women to ... "Happy is the man who hath ...
treasures of gold and silver; and she is more valuable than precious stones ...
/.../the instructor paedagogus/chapter xiiiagainst excessive fondness for.htm

Prayer --Fills Man's Poverty with God's Riches
... school, denial of prayer is the most valuable teacher ... the mightiest work, the divinest
work which man can do ... Supplication is a more intense and more special form ...
/.../bounds/the reality of prayer/ii prayerfills mans poverty with.htm

A Sheaf of Prayer Arrows
... of a traveller who had a valuable cordial of ... needy,' or, as perhaps the words more
accurately mean ... The self-righteous man cannot receive the righteousness of ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture j/a sheaf of prayer arrows.htm