Verse 7

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

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 15:45 : 45 So also it is written,“The first man, Adam, became a living person”; 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 was, and the life’s breath returns to God who gave it.
  • Isa 64:8 : 8 Yet, LORD, you are our father. We are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the product of your labor.
  • Ps 103:14 : 14 For he knows what we are made of; he realizes we are made of clay.
  • Gen 3:19 : 19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return.”
  • Acts 17:25 : 25 nor is he served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives life and breath and everything to everyone.
  • 1 Cor 15:47 : 47 The first man is from the earth, made of dust; the second man is from heaven.
  • Rom 9:20 : 20 But who indeed are you– a mere human being– to talk back to God? Does what is molded say to the molder,“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 for while my spirit is still in me, and the breath from God is in my nostrils,
  • Gen 3:23 : 23 So the LORD God expelled him from the orchard in Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken.
  • Isa 2:22 : 22 Stop trusting in human beings, whose life’s breath is in their nostrils. For why should they be given special consideration?
  • Ps 100:3 : 3 Acknowledge that the LORD is God! He made us and we belong to him; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.
  • Eccl 3:20-21 : 20 Both go to the same place, both come from the dust, and to dust both return. 21 Who really knows if the human spirit ascends upward, and the animal’s spirit descends into the earth?
  • Ps 139:14-15 : 14 I will give you thanks because your deeds are awesome and amazing. You knew me thoroughly; 15 my bones were not hidden from you, when I was made in secret and sewed together in the depths of the earth.
  • Job 33:6 : 6 Look, I am just like you in relation to God; I too have been molded from clay.
  • Zech 12:1 : 1 The Repentance of Judah This is an oracle, the LORD’s message concerning Israel: The LORD– he who stretches out the heavens and lays the foundations of the earth, who forms the human spirit within a person– says,
  • 2 Cor 5:1 : 1 Living by Faith, Not by Sight For we know that if our earthly house, the tent we live in, is dismantled, we have a building from God, a house not built by human hands, that is eternal in the heavens.
  • Heb 12:9 : 9 Besides, we have experienced discipline from our earthly fathers and we respected them; shall we not submit ourselves all the more to the Father of spirits and receive life?
  • 2 Cor 4:7 : 7 An Eternal Weight of Glory But we have this treasure in clay jars, so that the extraordinary power belongs to God and does not come from us.
  • John 20:22 : 22 And after he said this, he breathed on them and said,“Receive the Holy Spirit.
  • Job 4:19 : 19 how much more to those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth?
  • Num 16:22 : 22 Then they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground and said,“O God, the God of the spirits of all people, will you be angry with the whole community when only one man sins?”
  • Prov 20:27 : 27 The human spirit is like the lamp of the LORD, searching all his innermost parts.
  • Eccl 3:7 : 7 A time to rip, and a time to sew; a time to keep silent, and a time to speak.
  • Num 27:16 : 16 “Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all humankind, appoint a man over the community,