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 12:7Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
• Job 33:4The spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.
• 1 Cor 15:45And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
• Isa 64:8But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
• Acts 17:25Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
• 1 Cor 15:47The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.
• Job 27:3All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;
• Gen 3:19In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
• Gen 7:22All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
• Eccl 3:20–21All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
• Zech 12:1The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
• Ps 103:14For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.
• Ps 100:3Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
• Rom 9:20Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
• Isa 2:22Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?
• Gen 3:23Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
• Heb 12:9Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
• Prov 20:27The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.
• Num 16:22And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation?
• Job 33:6Behold, I am according to thy wish in God’s stead: I also am formed out of the clay.
• Job 4:19How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
• 2 Cor 5:1For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
• Ps 139:14–15I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
• Num 27:16Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation,
• John 20:22And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:
• 2 Cor 4:7But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
• Eccl 3:7A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

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