Genesis 2:7

New International Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 1:27

So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.

Genesis 2:6

but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”

Genesis 3:23

So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.

Genesis 7:22

Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.

Job 27:3

as long as I have life within me, the breath of God in my nostrils,

Job 33:4

The Spirit of God has made me; the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

Job 33:6

I am the same as you in God’s sight; I too am a piece of clay.

Job 4:19

how much more those who live in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who are crushed more readily than a moth!

Psalm 100:3

Know that the Lord is God. It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.

Psalm 103:14

for he knows how we are formed, he remembers that we are dust.

Proverbs 20:27

The human spirit is the lamp of the Lord that sheds light on one’s inmost being.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 3:7

a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak,

Isaiah 2:22

Stop trusting in mere humans, who have but a breath in their nostrils. Why hold them in esteem?

Isaiah 64:8

Yet you, Lord, are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.

Lamentations 4:20

The Lord’s anointed, our very life breath, was caught in their traps. We thought that under his shadow we would live among the nations.

Ezekiel 37:5

This is what the Sovereign Lord says to these bones: I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life.

Ezekiel 37:6

I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin; I will put breath in you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’ ”

Zechariah 12:1

A prophecy: The word of the Lord concerning Israel. The Lord, who stretches out the heavens, who lays the foundation of the earth, and who forms the human spirit within a person, declares:

Numbers 16:22

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?”

Numbers 27:16

“May the Lord, the God who gives breath to all living things, appoint someone over this community

John 20:22

And with that he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit.

Acts 17:25

And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.

Romans 9:20

But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’ ”

1 Corinthians 15:45

So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit.

1 Corinthians 15:47

The first man was of the dust of the earth; the second man is of heaven.

2 Corinthians 4:7

But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us.

2 Corinthians 5:1

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.

1 Timothy 2:13

For Adam was formed first, then Eve.

Hebrews 12:9

Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of spirits and live!