Mark XII, 30. And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
Rom. VII, 12. Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
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: