Genesis 2:7

New Living Translation

Then the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nostrils, and the man became a living person.

Cross References

Genesis 1:27

So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.

Genesis 2:6

Instead, springs came up from the ground and watered all the land.

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your brow will you have food to eat until you return to the ground from which you were made. For you were made from dust, and to dust you will return.”

Genesis 3:23

So the Lord God banished them from the Garden of Eden, and he sent Adam out to cultivate the ground from which he had been made.

Genesis 7:22

Everything that breathed and lived on dry land died.

Job 27:3

As long as I live, while I have breath from God,

Job 33:4

For the Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

Job 33:6

Look, you and I both belong to God. I, too, was formed from clay.

Job 4:19

how much less will he trust people made of clay! They are made of dust, crushed as easily as a moth.

Psalm 100:3

Acknowledge that the Lord is God! He made us, and we are his. We are his people, the sheep of his pasture.

Psalm 103:14

For he knows how weak we are; he remembers we are only dust.

Proverbs 20:27

The Lord’s light penetrates the human spirit, exposing every hidden motive.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

For then the dust will return to the earth, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 3:7

A time to tear and a time to mend. A time to be quiet and a time to speak.

Isaiah 2:22

Don’t put your trust in mere humans. They are as frail as breath. What good are they?

Isaiah 64:8

And yet, O Lord, you are our Father. We are the clay, and you are the potter. We all are formed by your hand.

Lamentations 4:20

Our king—the Lord’s anointed, the very life of our nation— was caught in their snares. We had thought that his shadow would protect us against any nation on earth!

Ezekiel 37:5

This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Look! I am going to put breath into you and make you live again!

Ezekiel 37:6

I will put flesh and muscles on you and cover you with skin. I will put breath into you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”

Zechariah 12:1

This message concerning the fate of Israel came from the Lord: “This message is from the Lord, who stretched out the heavens, laid the foundations of the earth, and formed the human spirit.

Numbers 16:22

But Moses and Aaron fell face down on the ground. “O God,” they pleaded, “you are the God who gives breath to all creatures. Must you be angry with all the people when only one man sins?”

Numbers 27:16

“O Lord, you are the God who gives breath to all creatures. Please appoint a new man as leader for the community.

John 20:22

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

Acts 17:25

and human hands can’t serve his needs—for he has no needs. He himself gives life and breath to everything, and he satisfies every need.

Romans 9:20

No, don’t say that. Who are you, a mere human being, to argue with God? Should the thing that was created say to the one who created it, “Why have you made me like this?”

1 Corinthians 15:45

The Scriptures tell us, “The first man, Adam, became a living person.” But the last Adam—that is, Christ—is a life-giving Spirit.

1 Corinthians 15:47

Adam, the first man, was made from the dust of the earth, while Christ, the second man, came from heaven.

2 Corinthians 4:7

We now have this light shining in our hearts, but we ourselves are like fragile clay jars containing this great treasure. This makes it clear that our great power is from God, not from ourselves.

2 Corinthians 5:1

For we know that when this earthly tent we live in is taken down (that is, when we die and leave this earthly body), we will have a house in heaven, an eternal body made for us by God himself and not by human hands.

1 Timothy 2:13

For God made Adam first, and afterward he made Eve.

Hebrews 12:9

Since we respected our earthly fathers who disciplined us, shouldn’t we submit even more to the discipline of the Father of our spirits, and live forever?