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It is used to describe what is innate or inherent, as opposed to what is spiritual or supernatural.<br><br>1. <b>Creation and the Natural World</b>: The Bible begins with the account of creation, where God establishes the natural order. <a href="/genesis/1-31.htm">Genesis 1:31</a> states, "And God saw all that He had made, and it was very good." This verse underscores the inherent goodness of the natural world as created by God. The natural world is a testament to God's power and creativity, as seen in <a href="/psalms/19.htm">Psalm 19:1</a> : "The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands."<br><br>2. <b>Human Nature</b>: The concept of human nature is addressed in the Bible, particularly in the context of the fall and sin. In <a href="/romans/5-12.htm">Romans 5:12</a> , Paul writes, "Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned." This passage highlights the fallen nature of humanity, which is contrasted with the spiritual renewal offered through Christ.<br><br>3. <b>Natural Desires and the Flesh</b>: The Bible often contrasts natural desires with spiritual aspirations. In <a href="/galatians/5-16.htm">Galatians 5:16-17</a> , Paul advises, "So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the flesh craves what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh." Here, "flesh" refers to the natural, sinful inclinations of humanity, which are at odds with the Spirit-led life.<br><br>4. <b>Natural Law and Conscience</b>: The concept of natural law is implicit in the Bible, suggesting that God's moral order is evident in creation and accessible to human reason. <a href="/romans/2-14.htm">Romans 2:14-15</a> states, "Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts either accusing or defending them."<br><br>5. <b>Natural vs. Spiritual</b>: The distinction between the natural and the spiritual is a recurring theme. In <a href="/1_corinthians/2-14.htm">1 Corinthians 2:14</a> , Paul writes, "The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned." This verse highlights the limitations of human understanding apart from divine revelation.<br><br>6. <b>Natural Use and Order</b>: The Bible addresses the natural use and order of creation, particularly in the context of human relationships and sexuality. <a href="/romans/1-26.htm">Romans 1:26-27</a> discusses how abandoning natural relations leads to moral and spiritual consequences: "For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. Likewise, the men abandoned natural relations with women and burned with lust for one another."<br><br>7. <b>Natural Gifts and Abilities</b>: The Bible acknowledges natural gifts and abilities as part of God's design. In <a href="/exodus/31-3.htm">Exodus 31:3</a> , God says of Bezalel, "And I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom, understanding, and ability in all kinds of craftsmanship." This passage illustrates how natural talents are endowed by God for His purposes.<br><br>The concept of "natural" in the Bible encompasses the created order, human nature, and the moral law evident in creation. It serves as a foundation for understanding the relationship between the physical and spiritual realms, highlighting the need for divine intervention and guidance in overcoming the limitations of the natural state.<a name="web" id="web"></a><div class="vheading2">Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary</div>1. (<I>a.</I>) Fixed or determined by nature; pertaining to the constitution of a thing; belonging to native character; according to nature; essential; characteristic; not artificial, foreign, assumed, put on, or acquired; as, the natural growth of animals or plants; the natural motion of a gravitating body; natural strength or disposition; the natural heat of the body; natural color.<p>2. (<I>a.</I>) Conformed to the order, laws, or actual facts, of nature; consonant to the methods of nature; according to the stated course of things, or in accordance with the laws which govern events, feelings, etc.; not exceptional or violent; legitimate; normal; regular; as, the natural consequence of crime; a natural death.<p>3. (<I>a.</I>) Having to do with existing system to things; dealing with, or derived from, the creation, or the world of matter and mind, as known by man; within the scope of human reason or experience; not supernatural; as, a natural law; natural science; history, theology.<p>4. (<I>a.</I>) Conformed to truth or reality<p>5. (<I>a.</I>) Springing from true sentiment; not artificial or exaggerated; -- said of action, delivery, etc.; as, a natural gesture, tone, etc.<p>6. (<I>a.</I>) Resembling the object imitated; true to nature; according to the life; -- said of anything copied or imitated; as, a portrait is natural.<p>7. (<I>a.</I>) Having the character or sentiments properly belonging to one's position; not unnatural in feelings.<p>8. (<I>a.</I>) Connected by the ties of consanguinity.<p>9. (<I>a.</I>) Begotten without the sanction of law; born out of wedlock; illegitimate; bastard; as, a natural child.<p>10. (<I>a.</I>) of or pertaining to the lower or animal nature, as contrasted with the higher or moral powers, or that which is spiritual; being in a state of nature; unregenerate.<p>11. (<I>a.</I>) Belonging to, to be taken in, or referred to, some system, in which the base is 1; -- said or certain functions or numbers; as, natural numbers, those commencing at 1; natural sines, cosines, etc., those taken in arcs whose radii are 1.<p>12. (<I>a.</I>) Produced by natural organs, as those of the human throat, in distinction from instrumental music.<p>13. (<I>a.</I>) of or pertaining to a key which has neither a flat nor a sharp for its signature, as the key of C major.<p>14. (<I>a.</I>) Applied to an air or modulation of harmony which moves by easy and smooth transitions, digressing but little from the original key.<p>15. (<I>n.</I>) A native; an aboriginal.<p>16. (<I>n.</I>) Natural gifts, impulses, etc.<p>17. (<I>n.</I>) One born without the usual powers of reason or understanding; an idiot.<p>18. (<I>n.</I>) A character [/] used to contradict, or to remove the effect of, a sharp or flat which has preceded it, and to restore the unaltered note.<a name="isb" id="isb"></a><div class="vheading2">International Standard Bible Encyclopedia</div><span class="encheading">MAN, NATURAL</span><p>nat'-u-ral, nach'-u-ral (psuchikos anthropos): Man as he is by nature, contrasted with man as he becomes by grace. This phrase is exclusively Pauline.<br><br>I. Biblical Meaning.<br><br>The classical passage in which it occurs is <a href="/1_corinthians/2-14.htm">1 Corinthians 2:14</a> King James Version: "But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." In his anthropology Paul uses four groups of descriptive adjectives in contrasted pairs:<br><br>(1) the old man and the new man (<a href="/romans/6-6.htm">Romans 6:6</a> <a href="/ephesians/4-22.htm">Ephesians 4:22</a> <a href="/colossians/3-9.htm">Colossians 3:9</a> <a href="/ephesians/2-15.htm">Ephesians 2:15</a>; <a href="/ephesians/4-24.htm">Ephesians 4:24</a> <a href="/colossians/3-10.htm">Colossians 3:10</a>);<br><br>(2) the outward man and the inward man (<a href="/2_corinthians/4-16.htm">2 Corinthians 4:16</a> <a href="/romans/7-22.htm">Romans 7:22</a> <a href="/ephesians/3-16.htm">Ephesians 3:16</a>);<br><br>(3) the carnal man and the spiritual man (<a href="/romans/8-1.htm">Romans 8:1-14</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/3-1.htm">1 Corinthians 3:1, 3, 4</a>);<br><br>(4) the natural man and the spiritual man (<a href="/2_corinthians/2-14.htm">2 Corinthians 2:14</a>; <a href="/2_corinthians/3-3.htm">2 Corinthians 3:3, 4</a> <a href="/ephesians/2-3.htm">Ephesians 2:3</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/2-15.htm">1 Corinthians 2:15</a>; <a href="/1_corinthians/3-1.htm">1 Corinthians 3:1</a>; <a href="/1_corinthians/14-37.htm">1 Corinthians 14:37</a>; <a href="/1_corinthians/15-46.htm">1 Corinthians 15:46</a> <a href="/galatians/6-1.htm">Galatians 6:1</a>).<br><br>A study of these passages will show that the adjectives "old," "outward," "carnal," and "natural" describe man, from different points of view, prior to his conversion; while the adjectives "new," "inward" and "spiritual" describe him, from different points of view, after his conversion. To elucidate the meaning, the expositor must respect these antitheses and let the contrasted words throw light and meaning upon each other.<br><br>1. The Old Man:<br><br>The "old man" is the "natural man" considered chronologically-prior to that operation of the Holy Spirit by which he is renovated into the "new man."<br><br>The old house is the house as it was before it was remodeled; an old garment is the garment as it was before it was re-fashioned; and the "old man" is man as he was before he was regenerated and sanctified by the grace of the Spirit. "Our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin" (<a href="/romans/6-6.htm">Romans 6:6</a> the King James Version). Here the "old man" is called the "body of sin," as the physical organism is called the body of the soul or spirit, and is to be "crucified" and "destroyed," in order that man may no longer be the "servant of sin." "Put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt..... Put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness" (<a href="/ephesians/4-22.htm">Ephesians 4:22, 24</a> the King James Version). Here the "old man" is said to be "corrupt," and we are called upon to "put it off." The figure is that of putting off old clothes which are unclean, and putting on those garments which have come from the wash clean and snowy white. We have the same idea, in different language and with a slightly different imagery.<br><br>When Paul calls the "natural man" the "old man," and describes it as the "body of sin" which is "corrupt" in its nature and "deeds," and tells us that it must be "crucified" and "destroyed" and "put off" in order that we may "not serve sin," but may have "righteousness" and "true holiness" and "knowledge" and the "image" of God, we get some conception of the moral meaning which he is endeavoring to convey by these contrasts (<a href="/galatians/5-19.htm">Galatians 5:19-24</a>). He has reference to that sinful nature in man which is as old as the individual, as old as the race of which he is a member, which must be graciously renovated according to that gospel which he preached to Corinthians, Colossians, Ephesians, Romans and all the world.<br><br>See <a href="../o/old.htm">OLD MAN</a>; <a href="../m/man.htm">MAN, I, 3</a>.<br><br>2. The Outward Man:<br><br>The apostle also establishes a contrast between "the inward man" and "the outward man." "Though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day" (<a href="/2_corinthians/4-16.htm">2 Corinthians 4:16</a>). Now what sort of man is the "outward man" as contrasted with the "inward man"? In Greek, the exo-anthropos is set over against the eso-anthropos.<br><br>See <a href="../o/outward.htm">OUTWARD MAN</a>.<br><br>"The contrast here drawn between the `outward' and the `inward man,' though illustrated by the contrast in <a href="/romans/7-22.htm">Romans 7:22</a> between the `law in the members' and `the inner man,' and in <a href="/ephesians/4-22.htm">Ephesians 4:22</a> <a href="/colossians/3-9.htm">Colossians 3:9</a> between `the old man' and `the new man' is not precisely the same. Those contrasts relate to the difference between the sensual and the moral nature, `the flesh' and `the spirit'; this to the difference between the material and the spiritual nature" (Stanley, in the place cited.).<br><br>"The outward man" is the body, and "the inward man" is the soul, or immaterial principle in the human make-up. As the body is wasted by the afflictions of life, the soul is renewed; what is death to the body is life to the soul; as afflictions depotentiate man's physical organism, they impotentiate man's spiritual principle. That is, the afflictions of life, culminating in death itself, have diametrically opposite effects upon the body and upon the soul. They kill the one; they quicken the other.<br><br>"The inward man" is the whole human nature as renewed and indwelt and dominated by the Spirit of God as interpenetrated by the spirit of grace. As the one is broken down by the adverse dispensations of life, the other is upbuilt by the sanctifying discipline of the Spirit.<br><br>3. The Carnal Man:<br><br>There is another Pauline antithesis which it is necessary for us to interpret in order to understand what he means by the "natural man." It is the distinction which he draws between the "carnal mind" and the "spiritual mind." The critical reference is <a href="/romans/8-1.htm">Romans 8:1-14</a>. In this place the "carnal mind" is identified with the "law of death," and the "spiritual mind" is identified with the "law of the Spirit." These two "laws" are two principles and codes: the one makes man to be at "enmity against God" and leads to "death"; the other makes him the friend of God, and conducts to "life and peace." The word "carnal" connotes all that is fallen and sinful and unregenerate in man's nature. In its gross sense the "carnal" signifies that which is contrary to nature, or nature expressing itself in low and bestial forms of sin.<br><br>4. The Natural Man:<br><br>The "natural man" is the "old man," the "outward man," the "carnal man"-man as he is by nature, as he is firstborn, contra-distinguished to man as he is changed by the Spirit, as he is second-born or regenerated. There. is an "old" life, an "outward" life, a "carnal" life, a "natural" life, as contrasted with the "new" life, the "inward" life, the "spiritual" life, the "gracious" life. The "natural man" is a bold and vivid personification of that depraved nature which we inherit from Adam fallen, the source and seat of all actual and personal transgressions.<br><br>II. Theological Meaning.<br><br>We know what we mean by the nature of the lion, by the nature of the lamb. We are using perfectly comprehensible language when we speak of the lion as naturally fierce, and of the lamb when we say he is naturally gentle. We have reference to the dominant dispositions of these animals, that resultant of their qualities which defines their character and spontaneity. So we are perfectly plain when we say that man is naturally sinful. We are but saying that sinfulness is to man what fierceness is to the lion, what gentleness is to the lamb. The "natural man" is a figure of speech for that sinful human nature, common to us all. It is equivalent to the theological phrases: the "sinful inclination," the "evil disposition," the "apostate will," "original sin," "native depravity." It manifests itself in the understanding as blindness, in the heart as hardness, in the will as obstinacy.<br><br>See <a href="../m/man.htm">MAN</a>.<br><br>Robert Alexander Webb<p><span class="encheading">NATURAL FEATURES</span><p>fe'-turz: As has been pointed out by various authors (compare HGHL), the principal physical features of Palestine run in North and South lines, or rather about from South-Southwest to North-Northeast.<br><br>The lowland or Shephelah (the King James Version "vale, valley, plain, or low country") includes the maritime plain and the western foothills.<br><br>The hill country consists of the mountains of Judea, and its features are continued northward to the plain of Esdraelon and southward to the Sinaitic peninsula. It is rocky and has very little water. Except for the few fountains, the scanty population depends upon rain water collected during the winter months.<br><br>The Arabah (Revised Version) includes the Jordan valley from the Sea of Galilee to the Dead Sea, as well as the depression running from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Akabah. It is to the latter depression that the name Wady-ul-`Arabah is now applied by the Arabs. It is bounded on the East by Mt. Seir or Edom, and on the West by the mountains of the Sinaitic peninsula. Its highest point, about halfway between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Akabah, is a few hundred ft. higher than the level of the Mediterranean, but nearly 2,000 ft. above the level of the Dead Sea. From this point the valley slopes southward to the Gulf of Akabah, and northward to the Dead Sea. The lower Jordan valley slopes from about 600 ft. below ocean-level at the Sea of Galilee to about 1,300 ft. below ocean-level at the Dead Sea.<br><br>To the East are the highlands of Gilead and Moab rising abruptly from the valley, as does the hill country of Judea on the West. The country to the East of the Jordan-Dead Sea-Arabah depression, to the whole of which the name Ghaur (Ghor) is applied by the Arabs, is a great table-land sloping gradually to the East from the sharp edge which overlooks the Ghaur. It has no conspicuous peaks. What appear to be peaks when viewed from the Ghaur are irregularities of its western contour, which are invisible or appear as slight mounds to the observer who looks westward from any point some miles to the East Mt. Nebo, for instance, when seen from Medeba is not readily distinguishable. This is because it really does not rise above the general level of the table-land. The small annual rainfall on the heights near the Ghaur diminishes eastward, and the desert begins within from 20 to 40 miles.<br><br>Another term much used by Old Testament writers is South or Negeb, which embraces the southernmost portion of the promised land, and was never effectively occupied by the Israelites. Its uttermost boundary was the "river of Egypt" (al-`Arish), and coincides roughly with the present boundary between the Ottoman territory on the East and the Anglo-Egyptian territory of Sinai on the West.<br><br>The term slopes, 'ashedhoth, the King James Version "springs," occurs in <a href="/joshua/10-40.htm">Joshua 10:40</a>, "So Joshua smote all the land, the hill country.... and the lowland, and the slopes, and all their kings"; and again in <a href="/joshua/12-7.htm">Joshua 12:7, 8</a>, "And Joshua gave it.... for a possession according to their divisions; in the hill-country, and in the lowland, and in the Arabah, and in the slopes, and in the wilderness, and in the South." In the former passage, it seems to refer to the foothills which form the eastern or higher part of the lowland or Shephelah. In the latter passage, it might mean the same, or it might mean the descent from the Judean hills to the Ghaur. In <a href="/deuteronomy/3-17.htm">Deuteronomy 3:17</a>; <a href="/deuteronomy/4-49.htm">Deuteronomy 4:49</a> <a href="/joshua/12-3.htm">Joshua 12:3</a>; <a href="/joshua/13-20.htm">Joshua 13:20</a>, we have "the slopes of Pisgah" ('ashdoth-ha-pisgah, "springs of Pisgah"), which denotes the descent from the heights of Moab to the Ghaur. The same word occurs in the sing in <a href="/numbers/21-15.htm">Numbers 21:15</a>, referring to the descent to the Arnon. "Slopes," therefore, does not seem to be a term applied to any particular region.<br><br>The wilderness is usually the desert of the wandering, including the central part of the Sinaitic peninsula, but it is by no means always used in this sense,. e.g. <a href="/joshua/8-15.htm">Joshua 8:15, 20, 24</a>, where it clearly refers to a region near Ai. "The wilderness" of <a href="/matthew/4-1.htm">Matthew 4:1</a> is thought to be the barren portion of Judea between Jerusalem and the Jordan.<br><br>See <a href="../c/champaign.htm">CHAMPAIGN</a>; <a href="../c/country.htm">COUNTRY</a>; DESERT; EAST; HILL; LOWLAND; SOUTH.<br><br>Alfred Ely Day<p><span class="encheading">NATURAL HISTORY</span><p>his'-to-ri.<br><br>See <a href="../a/animal.htm">ANIMAL</a>; <a href="../b/botany.htm">BOTANY</a>; BIRDS; FISH; INSECTS; ZOOLOGY.<p><span class="encheading">NATURAL; NATURE</span><p>nat'-u-ral, na'-tur (leach; psuchikos, phusikos, phusis):<br><br>1. As Used in the Old Testament:<br><br>"Natural" is the translation of leach, "freshness or vigor" (<a href="/deuteronomy/34-7.htm">Deuteronomy 34:7</a>). Of Moses it is said, "His eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated."<br><br>"Nature" in the sense of a system or constitution does not occur in the Old Testament. The world and men, each individual, were conceived as being the direct creation of a supra-mundane God, and conserved by His power and Spirit. The later conception of "nature" came in through Greek influences.<br><br>In the Apocrypha, we find "nature" in the sense of innate character or constitution (The Wisdom of Solomon 7:20, "the natures (phuseis) of living creatures"; The Wisdom of Solomon 13:1, "Surely vain are all men by nature" (phusei), 3 Maccabees 3:29, "mortal nature" (phusis)).<br><br>2. As Used in the New Testament:<br><br>In the New Testament "nature" (phusis) is frequently found in the latter sense (<a href="/romans/1-26.htm">Romans 1:26</a>, "against nature"; <a href="/romans/2-14.htm">Romans 2:14</a>, "by nature"; <a href="/romans/2-27.htm">Romans 2:27</a>; <a href="/romans/11-24.htm">Romans 11:24</a>, also "contrary to nature"; <a href="/1_corinthians/11-14.htm">1 Corinthians 11:14</a>, "Doth not even nature itself teach you?"; <a href="/galatians/2-15.htm">Galatians 2:15</a>; <a href="/galatians/4-8.htm">Galatians 4:8</a> <a href="/ephesians/2-3.htm">Ephesians 2:3</a>; in <a href="/2_peter/1-4.htm">2 Peter 1:4</a>, we have "that ye might be partakers of the divine nature," the Revised Version margin "or, a"); phusis occurs also in <a href="/james/3-7.htm">James 3:7</a>, "every kind of beasts," the Revised Version margin "Greek: nature," also "mankind" (3:7), the Revised Version margin "Greek: the human nature." "Natural" (<a href="/romans/11-21.htm">Romans 11:21, 24</a>) is the translation of kata phusin, "according to nature." Paul in 1 Corinthians speaks of "the natural man" (2:14, the American Revised Version margin "or unspiritual, Greek: physical") and of a "natural body" (<a href="/1_corinthians/15-44.htm">1 Corinthians 15:44</a> twice), the Greek word being psuchikos, "of the soul" (psuche), the animal, natural, principle, as contrasted with what pertains to the higher principle of the spirit (pneuma). In <a href="/1_corinthians/15-46.htm">1 Corinthians 15:46</a> the contrast is expressed, "Howbeit that is not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural," the American Revised Version margin "Greek: physical." The "natural man" is the man in whom the spirit is unquickened, the "natural body" is that corresponding to the psychical or soul-nature, the "spiritual body" that corresponding to the Spirit as the dominant principle of the life. In <a href="/jude/1-10.htm">Jude 1:10</a>, we have phusikos, "naturally" "naturally, as brute beasts," the Revised Version (British and American) "naturally, like the creatures without reason"; genesis, "origin," "birth," is translated "natural" (<a href="/james/1-23.htm">James 1:23</a>, "his natural face," the Revised Version margin "Greek: the face of his birth"); and "nature" (<a href="/james/3-6.htm">James 3:6</a>, "the course of nature" the Revised Version (British and American) "the wheel of nature" margin "or birth") ("wheel" probably means "circle of nature" (the whole creation; see COURSE)); gnesios, "genuine" ("true to right nature") "legitimate," "sincere," is translated "naturally" (<a href="/philippians/2-20.htm">Philippians 2:20</a>, "who will naturally care for your state," the Revised Version (British and American) "truly," margin "Greek: genuinely").<br><br>W. L. Walker<p><span class="encheading">NATURAL MAN, THE</span><p>See <a href="../m/man.htm">MAN, NATURAL</a>.<p><a name="grk" id="grk"></a><div class="vheading2">Greek</div><a href="/greek/5591.htm"><span class="l">5591. psuchikos -- <b>natural</b>, of the soul or mind</span></a> <br><b>...</b> <b>natural</b>, of the soul or mind. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: psuchikos<br> Phonetic Spelling: (psoo-khee-kos&#39;) Short Definition: animal, <b>natural</b> <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/5591.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 8k</font><p><a href="/greek/5446.htm"><span class="l">5446. phusikos -- <b>natural</b>, according to nature</span></a> <br><b>...</b> <b>natural</b>, according to nature. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: phusikos<br> Phonetic Spelling: (foo-see-kos&#39;) Short Definition: <b>natural</b>, according to <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/5446.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 7k</font><p><a href="/greek/794.htm"><span class="l">794. astorgos -- without <b>natural</b> affection</span></a> <br><b>...</b> without <b>natural</b> affection. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: astorgos Phonetic<br> Spelling: (as&#39;-tor-gos) Short Definition: unloving, devoid of affection <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/794.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p><a href="/greek/1721.htm"><span class="l">1721. emphutos -- innate, implanted</span></a> <br><b>...</b> Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: emphutos Phonetic Spelling:<br> (em&#39;-foo-tos) Short Definition: inborn, ingrown, congenital, <b>natural</b> Definition: <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/1721.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 7k</font><p><a href="/greek/5449.htm"><span class="l">5449. phusis -- nature</span></a> <br><b>...</b> Word Origin from phuo Definition nature NASB Word Usage instinctively (1), <b>natural</b><br> (1), <b>natural</b>* (1), nature (7), physically (1), race (1), species (1 <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/5449.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 7k</font><p><a href="/greek/2596.htm"><span class="l">2596. kata -- down, against, according to</span></a> <br><b>...</b> 1), exactly* (1), excessively* (1), godly* (1), how* (1), inasmuch* (2), individually*<br> (1), just (2), like (4), more (1), motives (1), <b>natural</b>* (1), off (2 <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/2596.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 9k</font><p><a href="/greek/5387.htm"><span class="l">5387. philostorgos -- tenderly loving</span></a> <br><b>...</b> to. 5387 (from 5384 , &quot;lover, friend&quot; and , &quot;<b>natural</b> or family love&quot;) --<br> properly, a lover of (used only in Ro 12:10). 5387 (&quot; love <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/5387.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 7k</font><p><a href="/greek/5349.htm"><span class="l">5349. phthartos -- perishable, corruptible</span></a> <br><b>...</b> an adjective, derived from 5351 ) -- perishable, what easily perishes disintegrates<br> (corrupts) -- like the break-down of the body during our <b>natural</b> lifetime. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/5349.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 7k</font><p><a href="/greek/3125.htm"><span class="l">3125. mamme -- a grandmother</span></a> <br><b>...</b> Definition a grandmother NASB Word Usage grandmother (1). grandmother. Of <b>natural</b><br> origin (&quot;mammy&quot;); a grandmother -- grandmother. (mamme) -- 1 Occurrence. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/3125.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p><a href="/greek/1982.htm"><span class="l">1982. episkiazo -- to overshadow</span></a> <br><b>...</b> envelop. 1982 (from 1909 , &quot;upon&quot; and , &quot;to cast shade&quot;) -- properly, to<br> cast a shadow ; , which leaves a <b>natural</b> (apt) result. 1982 <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/1982.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 7k</font><a name="heb" id="heb"></a><div class="vheading2">Strong's Hebrew</div><a href="/hebrew/5038.htm"><span class="l">5038. nebelah -- a carcass, corpse</span></a><br><b>...</b> a carcass, corpse NASB Word Usage body (11), carcass (10), carcasses (11), corpse<br> (2), corpses (3), dead bodies (3), dead body (2), died a <b>natural</b> death (1 <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/5038.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/4194.htm"><span class="l">4194. maveth -- death</span></a><br><b>...</b> From muwth; death (<b>natural</b> or violent); concretely, the dead, their place or state<br> (hades); figuratively, pestilence, ruin -- (be) dead((-ly)), death, die(-d). <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/4194.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/6664.htm"><span class="l">6664. tsedeq -- rightness, righteousness</span></a><br><b>...</b> From tsadaq; the right (<b>natural</b>, moral or legal); also (abstractly) equity or<br> (figuratively) prosperity -- X even, (X that which is altogether) just(-ice), (( <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/6664.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/6525.htm"><span class="l">6525. perach -- a bud, sprout</span></a><br><b>...</b> blossom, bud, flower. From parach; a calyx (<b>natural</b> or artificial); generally, bloom --<br> blossom, bud, flower. see HEBREW parach. 6524c, 6525. perach. 6526 <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/6525.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/8193.htm"><span class="l">8193. saphah -- lip, speech, edge</span></a><br><b>...</b> in dual and plural) sepheth {sef-eth&#39;}; probably from caphah or shaphah through<br> the idea of termination (compare cowph); the lip (as a <b>natural</b> boundary); by <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/8193.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/7325.htm"><span class="l">7325. rur -- run</span></a><br><b>...</b> Word Origin see rir. run A primitive root; to slaver (with spittle), ie (by analogy)<br> to emit a fluid (ulcerous or <b>natural</b>) -- run. 7324, 7325. rur. 7326 . <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/7325.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 5k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/1935.htm"><span class="l">1935. hod -- splendor, majesty, vigor</span></a><br><b>...</b> an unused word Definition splendor, majesty, vigor NASB Word Usage authority (2),<br> beauty (1), glory (1), honor (3), majestic (2), majesty (4), <b>natural</b> color (1 <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/1935.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/7451.htm"><span class="l">7451. ra&#39; -- bad, evil</span></a><br><b>...</b> From ra&#39;a&#39;; bad or (as noun) evil (<b>natural</b> or moral) -- adversity, affliction, bad,<br> calamity, + displease(-ure), distress, evil((- favouredness), man, thing <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/7451.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><a name="lib" id="lib"></a><div class="vheading2">Library</div><p><a href="/library/shedd/sermons_to_the_natural_man/"><span class="l">Sermons to the <b>Natural</b> Man</span></a> <br>Sermons to the <b>Natural</b> Man. &lt;. Sermons to the <b>Natural</b> Man William<br> GT Shedd. Produced by G. Graustein and PG Distributed <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//christianbookshelf.org/shedd/sermons to the natural man/</font><p><a href="/library/drummond/natural_law_in_the_spiritual_world/"><span class="l"><b>Natural</b> Law in the Spiritual World</span></a> <br><b>Natural</b> Law in the Spiritual World. &lt;. <b>Natural</b> Law in the Spiritual<br> World Henry Drummond. Table of Contents. Title Page. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//christianbookshelf.org/drummond/natural law in the spiritual world/</font><p><a href="/library/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_7_1861/natural_or_spiritual.htm"><span class="l"><b>Natural</b> or Spiritual?</span></a> <br><b>...</b> <b>Natural</b> or Spiritual? A Sermon (No.407). Delivered <b>...</b> 14. THE APOSTLE PAUL<br> knows of only two classes of men"<b>natural</b> and spiritual. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 7 1861/natural or spiritual.htm</font><p><a href="/library/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_there_is_a_natural.htm"><span class="l">Whether There is a <b>Natural</b> Fear?</span></a> <br><b>...</b> OF FEAR, IN ITSELF (FOUR ARTICLES) Whether there is a <b>natural</b> fear? Objection 1:<br> It would seem that there is a <b>natural</b> fear. For Damascene says (De Fide Orth. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/...//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether there is a natural.htm</font><p><a href="/library/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_the_resurrection_is_natural.htm"><span class="l">Whether the Resurrection is <b>Natural</b>?</span></a> <br><b>...</b> OF THE RESURRECTION (THREE ARTICLES) Whether the resurrection is <b>natural</b>? Objection<br> 1: It would seem that the resurrection is <b>natural</b>. <b>...</b> Therefore it is <b>natural</b>. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether the resurrection is natural.htm</font><p><a href="/library/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_the_grace_of_union.htm"><span class="l">Whether the Grace of Union was <b>Natural</b> to the Man Christ?</span></a> <br><b>...</b> OF THE MODE OF UNION OF THE WORD INCARNATE (TWELVE ARTICLES) Whether the<br> grace of union was <b>natural</b> to the man Christ? Objection <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/...//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether the grace of union.htm</font><p><a href="/library/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_the_natural_law_is.htm"><span class="l">Whether the <b>Natural</b> Law is a Habit?</span></a> <br><b>...</b> OF THE <b>NATURAL</b> LAW (SIX ARTICLES) Whether the <b>natural</b> law is a habit?<br> Objection 1: It would seem that the <b>natural</b> law is a habit. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/...//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether the natural law is.htm</font><p><a href="/library/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_there_is_in_us.htm"><span class="l">Whether There is in us a <b>Natural</b> Law?</span></a> <br><b>...</b> OF THE VARIOUS KINDS OF LAW (SIX ARTICLES) Whether there is in us a <b>natural</b> law?<br> Objection 1: It would seem that there is no <b>natural</b> law in us. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether there is in us.htm</font><p><a href="/library/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_inseparableness_of_the_wife.htm"><span class="l">Whether Inseparableness of the Wife is of <b>Natural</b> Law?</span></a> <br><b>...</b> OF THE BILL OF DIVORCE (SEVEN ARTICLES) Whether inseparableness of the wife<br> is of <b>natural</b> law? <b>...</b> For the <b>natural</b> law is the same for all. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether inseparableness of the wife.htm</font><p><a href="/library/waring/hymns_and_meditations/it_is_sown_a_natural.htm"><span class="l">&quot;It is Sown a <b>Natural</b> Body; it is Raised a Spiritual Body. &quot; -- I <b>...</b></span></a> <br><b>...</b> &quot;It is sown a <b>natural</b> body; it is raised a spiritual body.&quot; " I Cor.<br> 15:44. 7,7,7,7 <b>NATURAL</b> AFFECTION IN THE NEW CREATURE. &quot;It <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//christianbookshelf.org/waring/hymns and meditations/it is sown a natural.htm</font><a name="thes" id="thes"></a><div class="vheading2">Thesaurus</div><a href="/topical/n/natural.htm"><span class="l"><b>Natural</b> (49 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> belonging to native character; according to nature; essential; characteristic; not<br> artificial, foreign, assumed, put on, or acquired; as, the <b>natural</b> growth of <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/n/natural.htm - 42k</font><p><a href="/topical/p/physical.htm"><span class="l">Physical (7 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> 1. (a.) Of or pertaining to nature (as including all created existences); in accordance<br> with the laws Of nature; also, Of or relating to <b>natural</b> or material <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/p/physical.htm - 9k</font><p><a href="/topical/r/retribution.htm"><span class="l">Retribution (14 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> ret-ri-bu'-shun: 1. New Testament Terms 2. A Revelation of Wrath as Well as Grace<br> 3. Witness of <b>Natural</b> Theology 4. Retribution the <b>Natural</b> Consequence of Sin 5 <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/r/retribution.htm - 29k</font><p><a href="/topical/i/instinct.htm"><span class="l">Instinct (3 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> 2. (a.) <b>Natural</b> inward impulse; unconscious, involuntary, or unreasoning prompting<br> to any mode of action, whether bodily, or mental, without a distinct <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/i/instinct.htm - 8k</font><p><a href="/topical/f/fasting.htm"><span class="l">Fasting (34 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> heavy and displeased&quot; on account of Naboth's refusal to part with his estate, sulked<br> and &quot;would eat no bread.&quot; Fasting, originally the <b>natural</b> expression of <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/f/fasting.htm - 23k</font><p><a href="/topical/e/epicureans.htm"><span class="l">Epicureans (1 Occurrence)</span></a><br><b>...</b> Man's desires are of various kinds: &quot;Some are <b>natural</b>, some are groundless; of the<br><b>natural</b>, some are necessary as well as <b>natural</b>, and some are <b>natural</b> only. <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/e/epicureans.htm - 20k</font><p><a href="/topical/c/cave.htm"><span class="l">Cave (40 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> There are numerous <b>natural</b> caves among the limestone rocks of Syria, many of<br> which have been artificially enlarged for various purposes. <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/c/cave.htm - 25k</font><p><a href="/topical/d/dreamer.htm"><span class="l">Dreamer (4 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> Because of the mystery by which they have been enshrouded, and growing out of a<br><b>natural</b> curiosity to know the future, much significance has been attached to <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/d/dreamer.htm - 18k</font><p><a href="/topical/b/brother.htm"><span class="l">Brother (402 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> Easton's Bible Dictionary. (1.) In the <b>natural</b> and common sense (Matthew 1:2; Luke<br> 3:1, 19). <b>...</b> The first interpretation, however, is the most <b>natural</b>. <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/b/brother.htm - 47k</font><p><a href="/topical/a/affection.htm"><span class="l">Affection (30 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> Colossians 3:5). Christians are exhorted to set their affections on things above<br> (Colossians 3:2). There is a distinction between <b>natural</b> and spiritual or <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/a/affection.htm - 20k</font><p><a name="res" id="res"></a><div class="vheading2">Resources</div><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/natural-theology.html">What is natural theology? &#124; GotQuestions.org</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/natural-law.html">What is natural law? &#124; GotQuestions.org</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/natural-man.html">What does Paul mean when he writes of the natural man? &#124; GotQuestions.org</a><br /><br /><a href="https://clyx.com/term/natural.htm">Natural: Dictionary and Thesaurus &#124; Clyx.com</a><br /><br /><a href="/concordance/">Bible Concordance</a> &#8226; <a href="/dictionary/">Bible Dictionary</a> &#8226; <a href="/encyclopedia/">Bible Encyclopedia</a> &#8226; <a href="/topical/">Topical Bible</a> &#8226; <a href="/thesaurus/">Bible Thesuarus</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="cnc" id="cnc"></a><div class="vheading2">Concordance</div><span class="encheading">Natural (49 Occurrences)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/matthew/8-12.htm">Matthew 8:12</a></span><br />while the <span class="boldtext">natural</span> heirs of the Kingdom will be driven out into the darkness outside: there will be the weeping aloud and the gnashing of teeth." <br /><span class="source">(WEY)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/john/1-13.htm">John 1:13</a></span><br />who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/john/8-44.htm">John 8:44</a></span><br />You are the children of your father the Evil One and it is your pleasure to do his desires. From the first he was a taker of life; and he did not go in the true way because there is no true thing in him. When he says what is false, it is <span class="boldtext">natural</span> to him, for he is false and the father of what is false.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/john/11-13.htm">John 11:13</a></span><br />Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he spoke of taking rest in sleep.<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/romans/1-26.htm">Romans 1:26</a></span><br />For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the <span class="boldtext">natural</span> function into that which is against nature.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/romans/1-27.htm">Romans 1:27</a></span><br />Likewise also the men, leaving the <span class="boldtext">natural</span> function of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another, men doing what is inappropriate with men, and receiving in themselves the due penalty of their error.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/romans/1-31.htm">Romans 1:31</a></span><br />without understanding, covenant breakers, without <span class="boldtext">natural</span> affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/romans/2-14.htm">Romans 2:14</a></span><br />For when Gentiles who have no Law obey by <span class="boldtext">natural</span> instinct the commands of the Law, they, without having a Law, are a Law to themselves;<br /><span class="source">(WEY BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/romans/6-19.htm">Romans 6:19</a></span><br />I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.<br /><span class="source">(See RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/romans/9-8.htm">Romans 9:8</a></span><br />In other words, it is not the children by <span class="boldtext">natural</span> descent who count as God's children, but the children made such by the promise are regarded as Abraham's posterity.<br /><span class="source">(WEY NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/romans/11-18.htm">Romans 11:18</a></span><br />beware of glorying over the <span class="boldtext">natural</span> branches. Or if you are so glorying, do not forget that it is not you who uphold the root: the root upholds you.<br /><span class="source">(WEY)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/romans/11-21.htm">Romans 11:21</a></span><br />for if God didn't spare the <span class="boldtext">natural</span> branches, neither will he spare you.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/romans/11-24.htm">Romans 11:24</a></span><br />For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more will these, which are the <span class="boldtext">natural</span> branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/1_corinthians/2-14.htm">1 Corinthians 2:14</a></span><br />Now the <span class="boldtext">natural</span> man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/1_corinthians/3-3.htm">1 Corinthians 3:3</a></span><br />Because you are still in the flesh: for when there is envy and division among you, are you not still walking after the way of the flesh, even as <span class="boldtext">natural</span> men?<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/1_corinthians/3-4.htm">1 Corinthians 3:4</a></span><br />For when one says, I am of Paul; and another says, I am of Apollos; are you not talking like <span class="boldtext">natural</span> men?<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/1_corinthians/11-14.htm">1 Corinthians 11:14</a></span><br />Does it not seem <span class="boldtext">natural</span> to you that if a man has long hair, it is a cause of shame to him?<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/1_corinthians/15-44.htm">1 Corinthians 15:44</a></span><br />It is sown a <span class="boldtext">natural</span> body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is also a spiritual body. <br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/1_corinthians/15-46.htm">1 Corinthians 15:46</a></span><br />However that which is spiritual isn't first, but that which is <span class="boldtext">natural</span>, then that which is spiritual.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ephesians/6-5.htm">Ephesians 6:5</a></span><br />Servants, do what is ordered by those who are your <span class="boldtext">natural</span> masters, having respect and fear for them, with all your heart, as to Christ;<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/colossians/2-13.htm">Colossians 2:13</a></span><br />And to you--dead as you once were in your transgressions and in the uncircumcision of your <span class="boldtext">natural</span> state--He has nevertheless given Life with Himself, having forgiven us all our transgressions.<br /><span class="source">(WEY)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/colossians/2-23.htm">Colossians 2:23</a></span><br />These things seem to have a sort of wisdom in self-ordered worship and making little of oneself, and being cruel to the body, not honouring it by giving it its <span class="boldtext">natural</span> use.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/colossians/3-22.htm">Colossians 3:22</a></span><br />Servants, in all things do the orders of your <span class="boldtext">natural</span> masters; not only when their eyes are on you, as pleasers of men, but with all your heart, fearing the Lord:<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_timothy/3-3.htm">2 Timothy 3:3</a></span><br />without <span class="boldtext">natural</span> affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/hebrews/2-4.htm">Hebrews 2:4</a></span><br />And God was a witness with them, by signs and wonders, and by more than <span class="boldtext">natural</span> powers, and by his distribution of the Holy Spirit at his pleasure.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/james/1-23.htm">James 1:23</a></span><br />For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his <span class="boldtext">natural</span> face in a mirror;<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/james/3-15.htm">James 3:15</a></span><br />This is not the wisdom which comes down from above, but earthly, <span class="boldtext">natural</span>, devilish.<br /><span class="source">(DBY NAS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_peter/2-12.htm">2 Peter 2:12</a></span><br />But these, as unreasoning creatures, born <span class="boldtext">natural</span> animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV WEY BBE DBY WBS YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/jude/1-10.htm">Jude 1:10</a></span><br />But these speak evil of whatever things they don't know. What they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason, they are destroyed in these things.<br /><span class="source">(Root in WEB KJV ASV BBE WBS YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/jude/1-19.htm">Jude 1:19</a></span><br />These are the men who make divisions, <span class="boldtext">natural</span> men, not having the Spirit.<br /><span class="source">(BBE DBY YLT NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/genesis/19-31.htm">Genesis 19:31</a></span><br />And the older daughter said to her sister, Our father is old, and there is no man to be a husband to us in the <span class="boldtext">natural</span> way:<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/leviticus/7-24.htm">Leviticus 7:24</a></span><br />And the fat of that which comes to a <span class="boldtext">natural</span> death, and the fat of that which is attacked by beasts, may be used for other purposes, but not in any way for food.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/leviticus/11-39.htm">Leviticus 11:39</a></span><br />And if any beast which may be used for food comes to a <span class="boldtext">natural</span> death, anyone touching its dead body will be unclean till evening.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/leviticus/17-15.htm">Leviticus 17:15</a></span><br />And anyone who takes as food anything which has come to a <span class="boldtext">natural</span> end, or anything which has been put to death by beasts, if he is one of you by birth, or of another nation, will have to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening, and then he will be clean.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/leviticus/22-8.htm">Leviticus 22:8</a></span><br />That which comes to a <span class="boldtext">natural</span> death, or is attacked by beasts, he may not take as food, for it will make him unclean: I am the Lord.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/leviticus/22-23.htm">Leviticus 22:23</a></span><br />An ox or a lamb which has more or less than its <span class="boldtext">natural</span> parts, may be given as a free offering; but it will not be taken in payment of an oath.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/leviticus/25-7.htm">Leviticus 25:7</a></span><br />And for your cattle and the beasts on the land; all the <span class="boldtext">natural</span> increase of the land will be for food. <br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/leviticus/25-12.htm">Leviticus 25:12</a></span><br />For it is the Jubilee, and it is holy to you; your food will be the <span class="boldtext">natural</span> increase of the field.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/16-29.htm">Numbers 16:29</a></span><br />If these men have the common death of men, or if the <span class="boldtext">natural</span> fate of all men overtakes them, then the Lord has not sent me.<br /><span class="source">(BBE NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/19-16.htm">Numbers 19:16</a></span><br />And anyone touching one who has been put to death with the sword in the open country, or the body of one who has come to his end by a <span class="boldtext">natural</span> death, or a man's bone, or the resting-place of a dead body, will be unclean for seven days.<br /><span class="source">(BBE NAS NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/19-18.htm">Numbers 19:18</a></span><br />And a clean person is to take hyssop and put it in the water, shaking it over the tent, and all the vessels, and the people who were there, and over him by whom the bone, or the body of one who has been put to death with the sword, or the body of one who has come to his end by a <span class="boldtext">natural</span> death, or the resting-place was touched.<br /><span class="source">(BBE NAS NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/deuteronomy/14-21.htm">Deuteronomy 14:21</a></span><br />You may not have as food anything which has come to a <span class="boldtext">natural</span> death; the man from another country who is living with you may take it for food, or you may get a price for it from one of another nation; for you are a holy people to the Lord your God. The young goat is not to be cooked in its mother's milk.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/deuteronomy/34-7.htm">Deuteronomy 34:7</a></span><br />Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his <span class="boldtext">natural</span> force abated.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/1_samuel/26-10.htm">1 Samuel 26:10</a></span><br />And David said, By the living Lord, the Lord will send destruction on him; the <span class="boldtext">natural</span> day of his death will come, or he will go into the fight and come to his end.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/nehemiah/2-3.htm">Nehemiah 2:3</a></span><br />And said to the king, May the king be living for ever: is it not <span class="boldtext">natural</span> for my face to be sad, when the town, the place where the bodies of my fathers are at rest, has been made waste and its doorways burned with fire?<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/proverbs/26-1.htm">Proverbs 26:1</a></span><br />Like snow in summer and rain when the grain is being cut, so honour is not <span class="boldtext">natural</span> for the foolish.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-14.htm">Ezekiel 4:14</a></span><br />Then I said, Ah, Lord! see, my soul has never been unclean, and I have never taken as my food anything which has come to a <span class="boldtext">natural</span> death or has been broken by beasts, from the time when I was young even till now; no disgusting flesh has ever come into my mouth.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ezekiel/44-31.htm">Ezekiel 44:31</a></span><br />The priests may not take for food any bird or beast which has come to a <span class="boldtext">natural</span> death or whose death has been caused by another animal. <br /><span 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