Genesis 2:7

God forms man from dust and breathes life into him, so he becomes a living being. Humanity is both earthy and uniquely animated by God's breath.

Cross-references · 27

• Eccl 12:7before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
• Job 33:4The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
• 1 Cor 15:45So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being;” the last Adam a life-giving spirit.
• Isa 64:8But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.
• Acts 17:25Nor is He served by human hands, as if He needed anything, because He Himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.
• 1 Cor 15:47The first man was of the dust of the earth, the second man from heaven.
• Job 27:3as long as my breath is still within me and the breath of God remains in my nostrils,
• Gen 3:19By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
• Gen 7:22Of all that was on dry land, everything that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.
• Eccl 3:20–21All go to one place; all come from dust, and all return to dust.
• Zech 12:1This is the burden of the word of the LORD concerning Israel. Thus declares the LORD, who stretches out the heavens and lays the foundation of the earth, who forms the spirit of man within him:
• Ps 103:14For He knows our frame; He is mindful that we are dust.
• Ps 100:3Know that the LORD is God. It is He who made us, and we are His; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.
• Rom 9:20But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?”
• Isa 2:22Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?
• Gen 3:23Therefore the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.
• Heb 12:9Furthermore, we have all had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. Should we not much more submit to the Father of our spirits and live?
• Prov 20:27The spirit of a man is the lamp of the LORD, searching out his inmost being.
• Num 16:22But Moses and Aaron fell facedown and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, when one man sins, will You be angry with the whole congregation?”
• Job 33:6I am just like you before God; I was also formed from clay.
• Job 4:19how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!
• 2 Cor 5:1Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is dismantled, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.
• Ps 139:14–15I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well.
• Num 27:16“May the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation
• John 20:22When He had said this, He breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit.
• 2 Cor 4:7Now we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this surpassingly great power is from God and not from us.
• Eccl 3:7a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak,

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