Genesis 2:7

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 1:27

So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

Genesis 2:6

But a mist arose from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the ground, because out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return.”

Genesis 3:23

therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.

Genesis 7:22

All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, all that was on the dry land, died.

Job 27:3

all the while my spirit is in me, and the breath of God is in my nostrils,

Job 33:4

The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty has given me life.

Job 33:6

Surely I am before God like you; I also am formed out of the clay.

Job 4:19

Even more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth.

Psalm 100:3

Know that the Lord, He is God! It is He who has made us, and we are His; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.

Psalm 103:14

For He knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust.

Proverbs 20:27

The spirit of man is the light of the Lord, searching all the innermost depths of the heart.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the life breath returns to God who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 3:7

a time to tear up, and a time to mend together; a time to be silent, and a time to speak;

Isaiah 2:22

Cease regarding man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for why should he be esteemed?

Isaiah 64:8

But now, O  Lord, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are our potter; and we all are the work of Your hand.

Lamentations 4:20

The breath of our life, the anointed king of the Lord, was captured in their traps, of whom we said, “Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.”

Ezekiel 37:5

Thus says the Lord God to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter you so that you live.

Ezekiel 37:6

And I will lay sinews upon you and will grow back flesh upon you and cover you with skin and put breath in you so that you live. Then you shall know that I am the Lord.”

Zechariah 12:1

The oracle of the word of the Lord against Israel. Thus says the Lord, the One who stretches out the heavens and establishes the earth and forms the spirit of man within him:

Numbers 16:22

They fell on their faces and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, will one man sin and You will be angry with all the assembly?”

Numbers 27:16

“Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the assembly

John 20:22

When He had said this, He breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.

Acts 17:25

Nor is He served by men’s hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives all men life and breath and all things.

Romans 9:20

Rather, O man, who are you to answer back to God? Shall the thing formed say to him who formed it, “Why have you made me like this?”

1 Corinthians 15:45

So it is written, “The first man Adam was made a living soul.” The last Adam was made a life-giving spirit.

1 Corinthians 15:47

The first man was of the earth, made of dust; the second man was the Lord from heaven.

2 Corinthians 4:7

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, the excellency of the power being from God and not from ourselves.

2 Corinthians 5:1

We know that if our earthly house, this tent, were to be destroyed, we have an eternal building of God in the heavens, a house not made with hands.

1 Timothy 2:13

For Adam was formed first, then Eve.

Hebrews 12:9

Furthermore, we have had human fathers, and they corrected us, and we gave them reverence. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?