Genesis 2:7

Authorized King James Version (1611)

And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

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  • 1 Cor 15:45 : 45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam [was made] a quickening spirit.
  • Job 33:4 : 4 The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
  • Isa 64:8 : 8 But now, O LORD, thou [art] our father; we [are] the clay, and thou our potter; and we all [are] the work of thy hand.
  • Ps 103:14 : 14 For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we [are] dust.
  • Gen 3:19 : 19 In 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.
  • Acts 17:25 : 25 Neither 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 15:47 : 47 The first man [is] of the earth, earthy: the second man [is] the Lord from heaven.
  • Rom 9:20 : 20 Nay 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?
  • Gen 7:22 : 22 All in whose nostrils [was] the breath of life, of all that [was] in the dry [land], died.
  • Job 27:3 : 3 All the while my breath [is] in me, and the spirit of God [is] in my nostrils;
  • Gen 3:23 : 23 Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
  • Isa 2:22 : 22 Cease ye from man, whose breath [is] in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?
  • Ps 100:3 : 3 Know 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.
  • Eccl 3:20-21 : 20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. 21 Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
  • Ps 139:14-15 : 14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully [and] wonderfully made: marvellous [are] thy works; and [that] my soul knoweth right well. 15 My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, [and] curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
  • Job 33:6 : 6 Behold, I [am] according to thy wish in God's stead: I also am formed out of the clay.
  • Zech 12:1 : 1 ¶ The 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.
  • 2 Cor 5:1 : 1 ¶ For 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.
  • Heb 12:9 : 9 Furthermore 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?
  • 2 Cor 4:7 : 7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
  • John 20:22 : 22 And when he had said this, he breathed on [them], and saith unto them, ‹Receive ye the Holy Ghost:›
  • Job 4:19 : 19 How much less [in] them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation [is] in the dust, [which] are crushed before the moth?
  • Num 16:22 : 22 And 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?
  • Prov 20:27 : 27 ¶ The spirit of man [is] the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.
  • Eccl 3:7 : 7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
  • Num 27:16 : 16 Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation,

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