Biblical Concept: Creature, Creatures
Findings
God, created, creature, good.
Man, creature, name.
Living creature, ark.
“edible creature”
Romans 1:25 For they exchanged the truth
of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature
rather than
the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
“served the creature rather than the Creator”
“if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature”
“no creature hidden from His sight”
God: “Let the waters teem with swarms of living creatures”
God: “Let the earth bring forth living creatures”
To sons of Israel: “These are the creatures which you may eat”
walks on paws: among all the creatures, unclean to you
“desert creatures”
“glory of the incorruptible God” versus “crawling
creatures”
Believers: “first fruits among His creatures”
Tamed: “creatures of the sea”
False teachers: “creatures of instinct”
Heaven during Great Tribulation: “around the throne, four living creatures”
Great Tribulation: “a third of the creatures, which
were in the sea and had life, died”
“the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God”
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Creature
NAS Genesis 1:21 And God created the great
sea monsters, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters
swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw
that it was good. (God, created, creature, good.)
NAS Genesis 2:19 And out of the ground the
LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky, and brought
them to the man to see what he would
call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name.
(Man, creature, name.)
NAS Genesis 9:10 and with every living
creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth
with you; of all that comes out of the ark, even every beast of the earth.
(Living creature, ark)
12 And God said,
"This is the sign of the covenant which I am making between Me and you and
every living creature that is with you, for all successive generations;
15 and I will remember My
covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh;
and never again shall the water become a flood to destroy all flesh.
16 "When the bow is
in the cloud, then I will look upon it, to remember the everlasting covenant
between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth."
NAS Leviticus 11:47 to make a distinction
between the unclean and the clean, and between the edible creature and the
creature which is not to be eaten. (“edible creature”)
NAS Ecclesiastes 10:20 Furthermore, in your
bedchamber do not curse a king, and in your sleeping
rooms do not curse a rich man, for a bird of the heavens will carry the sound,
and the winged creature will make the matter known.
NAS Ezekiel 47:9 "And it will come about
that every living creature which swarms in every place where the river goes,
will live. And there will be very many fish, for these waters go there, and the others become fresh; so everything will live where the river goes.
NAS Acts 28:4 And when the natives saw the
creature hanging from his hand, they began
saying to one another, "Undoubtedly this man is a murderer, and though
he has been saved from the sea, justice has not allowed him to live."
5 However he shook the
creature off into the fire and suffered no harm.
NAS Romans 1:25 For they exchanged the truth
of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the
Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. (All) (“served the creature rather than
the Creator”)
NAS 2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man is in
Christ, he is a new creature; the old
things passed away; behold, new things have come. (“if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature”)
NAS Hebrews 4:13 And there is no creature
hidden from His sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him
with whom we have to do. (“no creature hidden from His sight”)
NAS Revelation 4:7 And the first creature was like a lion, and the second creature
like a calf, and the third creature had a face like that of a man, and the
fourth creature was like a flying
eagle.
NAS Revelation 6:3 And when He broke the second
seal, I heard the second living creature saying, "Come."
5 And when He broke the
third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, "Come." And I
looked, and behold, a black horse; and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in
his hand.
7 And when He broke the
fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying,
"Come."
Creatures
NAS Genesis 1:20 Then God said, "Let the
waters teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth
in the open expanse of the heavens." (God: “Let the waters teem with
swarms of living creatures”)
24 Then God said,
"Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle and
creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind"; and it was so.
(God: “Let the earth bring forth living creatures”)
NAS Leviticus 11:2 "Speak to the sons of
Israel, saying, 'These are the creatures which you may eat from all the animals
that are on the earth. (to sons of Israel: “These are
the creatures which you may eat”)
10 'But whatever is in
the seas and in the rivers, that do not have fins and scales among all the
teeming life of the water, and among all the living creatures that are in the
water, they are detestable things to you,
27 'Also whatever walks
on its paws, among all the creatures that walk on all fours, are unclean to you; whoever touches their carcasses
becomes unclean until evening, (walks on paws: among all the creatures, unclean
to you)
NAS Psalm 68:10 Thy creatures settled in it;
Thou didst provide in Thy goodness for the poor, O God.
NAS Psalm 74:14 Thou didst crush the heads
of Leviathan; Thou didst give him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.
NAS Isaiah 13:21 But desert creatures will
lie down there, And their houses will be full of owls,
Ostriches also will live there, and shaggy goats will frolic there. (“desert
creatures”)
NAS Isaiah 23:13 Behold, the land of the
Chaldeans-- this is the people which was
not; Assyria appointed it for desert creatures-- they erected their siege
towers, they stripped its palaces, they made it a ruin.
NAS Isaiah 34:14 And the desert creatures
shall meet with the wolves, The hairy goat also shall cry to its kind; Yes, the
night monster shall settle there And
shall find herself a resting place.
NAS Jeremiah 50:39 "Therefore the desert
creatures will live there along with
the jackals; The ostriches also will live in it, And
it will never again be inhabited Or dwelt in from generation to generation.
NAS Daniel 4:12 'Its foliage was beautiful and its fruit abundant, And in it was food
for all. The beasts of the field found shade under it, And the birds of the sky
dwelt in its branches, And all living creatures fed
themselves from it.
NAS Acts 10:12 and there were in it all kinds of four-footed animals and
crawling creatures of the earth and birds of the air.
NAS Acts 11:6 and when I had fixed my gaze
upon it and was observing it I saw the four-footed
animals of the earth and the wild beasts and the crawling creatures and the
birds of the air.
NAS Romans 1:23 and exchanged the glory of
the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds
and four-footed animals and crawling creatures. (“glory of the incorruptible
God” versus “crawling creatures”)
NAS James 1:18 In the exercise of His will
He brought us forth by the word of truth, so that we might be, as it were, the
first fruits among His creatures. (Believers: “first fruits among His
creatures”)
NAS James 3:7 For every species of beasts
and birds, of reptiles and creatures of the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed
by the human race. (Tamed: “creatures of the sea”)
NAS 2 Peter 2:12 But these, like unreasoning
animals, born as creatures of instinct to be captured and killed, reviling
where they have no knowledge, will in the destruction of those creatures also
be destroyed, (False teachers: “creatures of instinct”)
NAS Revelation 4:6 and before the throne there was, as it were, a sea of glass
like crystal; and in the center and around the throne, four living creatures
full of eyes in front and behind. (Heaven during Great Tribulation: “around the
throne, four living creatures”)
8 And the four living
creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and
within; and day and night they do not cease to say, "Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD God, the Almighty, who was
and who is and who is to come."
9 And when the living
creatures give glory and honor and thanks to Him who sits on the throne, to Him
who lives forever and ever,
NAS Revelation 5:6 And I saw between the throne
(with the four living creatures) and the elders a Lamb standing, as if slain,
having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out
into all the earth.
8 And when He had taken
the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before
the Lamb, having each one a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are
the prayers of the saints.
11 And I looked, and I
heard the voice of many angels around the throne and the living creatures and
the elders; and the number of them was myriads of myriads, and thousands of
thousands,
14 And the four living
creatures kept saying, "Amen." And the elders fell down and
worshiped.
NAS Revelation 6:1 And I saw when the Lamb
broke one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures
saying as with a voice of thunder, "Come."
6 And I heard as it were
a voice in the center of the four living creatures saying, "A quart of
wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not
harm the oil and the wine."
NAS Revelation 7:11 And all the angels were
standing around the throne and around the
elders and the four living creatures; and they fell on their faces before the throne
and worshiped God,
NAS Revelation 8:9 and a third of the
creatures, which were in the sea and had life, died; and a third of the ships
were destroyed. (Great Tribulation: “a third of the creatures, which were in
the sea and had life, died”)
NAS Revelation 14:3 And they sang a new song
before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders; and no
one could learn the song except the one hundred and forty-four thousand who had
been purchased from the earth.
NAS Revelation 15:7 And one of the four living
creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God,
who lives forever and ever.
NAS Revelation 19:4 And the twenty-four elders
and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who sits on the
throne saying, "Amen. Hallelujah!" (“the four living creatures fell
down and worshiped God”)