Thus says the Lord Yahweh to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live.
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- KJV Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:
- BSB This is what the Lord GOD says to these bones: I will cause breath to enter you, and you will come to life.
- ESV Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live.
- NKJV Thus says the Lord God to these bones: “Surely I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live.
- NASB This is what the Lord God says to these bones: ‘Behold, I am going to make breath enter you so that you may come to life.
- NLT This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Look! I am going to put breath into you and make you live again!
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- Ezek 37:14I will put my Spirit in you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land: and you shall know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it and performed it, says Yahweh.
- Gen 2:7Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
- Ps 104:29–30You hide your face: they are troubled; you take away their breath: they die, and return to the dust.
- Ezek 37:9–10Then he said to me, Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man, and tell the wind, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Come from the four winds, breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.
- John 20:22When he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit!
- Eph 2:5even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
- Rom 8:2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
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