Genesis 2:7

Good News Translation

Then the Lord God took some soil from the ground and formed a man out of it; he breathed life-giving breath into his nostrils and the man began to live.

Cross References

Genesis 1:27

So God created human beings, making them to be like himself. He created them male and female,

Genesis 2:6

but water would come up from beneath the surface and water the ground.

Genesis 3:19

You will have to work hard and sweat to make the soil produce anything, until you go back to the soil from which you were formed. You were made from soil, and you will become soil again.”

Genesis 3:23

So the Lord God sent them out of the Garden of Eden and made them cultivate the soil from which they had been formed.

Genesis 7:22

Everything on earth that breathed died.

Job 27:3

as long as God gives me breath,

Job 33:4

God's spirit made me and gave me life.

Job 33:6

You and I are the same in God's sight, both of us were formed from clay.

Job 4:19

Do you think he will trust a creature of clay, a thing of dust that can be crushed like a moth?

Psalm 100:3

Acknowledge that the Lord is God. He made us, and we belong to him; we are his people, we are his flock.

Psalm 103:14

He knows what we are made of; he remembers that we are dust.

Proverbs 20:27

The Lord gave us mind and conscience; we cannot hide from ourselves.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

Our bodies will return to the dust of the earth, and the breath of life will go back to God, who gave it to us.

Ecclesiastes 3:7

the time for tearing and the time for mending, the time for silence and the time for talk.

Isaiah 2:22

Put no more confidence in mortals. What are they worth?

Isaiah 64:8

But you are our father, Lord. We are like clay, and you are like the potter. You created us,

Lamentations 4:20

They captured the source of our life, the king the Lord had chosen, the one we had trusted to protect us from every invader.

Ezekiel 37:5

Tell them that I, the Sovereign Lord, am saying to them: I am going to put breath into you and bring you back to life.

Ezekiel 37:6

I will give you sinews and muscles, and cover you with skin. I will put breath into you and bring you back to life. Then you will know that I am the Lord.”

Zechariah 12:1

This is a message about Israel from the Lord, the Lord who spread out the skies, created the earth, and gave life to man. He says,

Numbers 16:22

But Moses and Aaron bowed down with their faces to the ground and said, “O God, you are the source of all life. When one of us sins, do you become angry with the whole community?”

Numbers 27:16

“Lord God, source of all life, appoint, I pray, a man who can lead the people

John 20:22

Then he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit.

Acts 17:25

Nor does he need anything that we can supply by working for him, since it is he himself who gives life and breath and everything else to everyone.

Romans 9:20

But who are you, my friend, to talk back to God? A clay pot does not ask the man who made it, “Why did you make me like this?”

1 Corinthians 15:45

For the scripture says, “The first man, Adam, was created a living being”; but the last Adam is the life-giving Spirit.

1 Corinthians 15:47

The first Adam, made of earth, came from the earth; the second Adam came from heaven.

2 Corinthians 4:7

Yet we who have this spiritual treasure are like common clay pots, in order to show that the supreme power belongs to God, not to us.

2 Corinthians 5:1

For we know that when this tent we live in—our body here on earth—is torn down, God will have a house in heaven for us to live in, a home he himself has made, which will last forever.

1 Timothy 2:13

For Adam was created first, and then Eve.

Hebrews 12:9

In the case of our human fathers, they punished us and we respected them. How much more, then, should we submit to our spiritual Father and live!