Verse 7

Then the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground, breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

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  • 1 Cor 15:45 : 45 So it is written: 'The first man, Adam, became a living being'; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
  • Job 33:4 : 4 The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 And the dust returns to the earth as it once was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
  • Isa 64:8 : 8 Do not be exceedingly angry, LORD, and do not remember our sins forever. Behold us, we are all your people.
  • Ps 103:14 : 14 For He knows how we are formed; He remembers that we are dust.
  • Gen 3:19 : 19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread until you return to the ground, because from it you were taken; for dust you are, and to dust you will return.
  • Acts 17:25 : 25 Nor is he served by human hands as if he needed anything, since he himself gives everyone life, breath, and everything else.
  • 1 Cor 15:47 : 47 The first man was from the earth, made of dust; the second man is from heaven.
  • Rom 9:20 : 20 But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its maker, 'Why have you made me like this?'
  • Gen 7:22 : 22 Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.
  • Job 27:3 : 3 as long as my breath remains in me and the spirit of God is in my nostrils,
  • Gen 3:23 : 23 So the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.
  • Isa 2:22 : 22 Stop trusting in man, who has but a breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?
  • Ps 100:3 : 3 Know that the Lord is God. He made us, and we are His; we are His people, the sheep of His pasture.
  • Eccl 3:20-21 : 20 All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return. 21 Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down to the earth?
  • Ps 139:14-15 : 14 I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Your works are wonderful, I know that full well. 15 My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
  • Job 33:6 : 6 Look, I am like you before God; I too was formed from clay.
  • Zech 12:1 : 1 This is the Lord’s message concerning Israel. The Lord, who stretches out the heavens, lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit within humans, declares this:
  • 2 Cor 5:1 : 1 For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.
  • Heb 12:9 : 9 Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. How much more should we submit to the Father of spirits and live!
  • 2 Cor 4:7 : 7 But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.
  • John 20:22 : 22 After saying this, he breathed on them and said, 'Receive the Holy Spirit.'
  • Job 4:19 : 19 How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
  • Num 16:22 : 22 But Moses and Aaron fell facedown and cried out, "O God, the God who gives breath to all living things, will you be angry with the entire assembly when only one man sins?"
  • Prov 20:27 : 27 The spirit of a person is the lamp of the Lord, searching their inmost being.
  • Eccl 3:7 : 7 A time to tear and a time to mend; a time to be silent and a time to speak.
  • Num 27:16 : 16 May the LORD, the God of the spirits of all humankind, appoint a man over the assembly