Genesis 2:7

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

then the Lord God formed 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 humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.

Genesis 2:6

but a stream would rise from the earth, and water the whole face of the ground—

Genesis 3:19

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

Genesis 3:23

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

Genesis 7:22

everything on dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died.

Job 27:3

as long as my breath is in me and the spirit of God is in my nostrils,

Job 33:4

The spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

Job 33:6

See, before God I am as you are; I too was formed from a piece of clay.

Job 4:19

how much more those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth.

Psalm 100:3

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

Psalm 103:14

For he knows how we were made; he remembers that we are dust.

Proverbs 20:27

The human spirit is the lamp of the Lord, searching every inmost part.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

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

Ecclesiastes 3:7

a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

Isaiah 2:22

Turn away from mortals, who have only breath in their nostrils, for of what account are they?

Isaiah 64:8

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

Lamentations 4:20

The Lord's anointed, the breath of our life, was taken in their pits— the one of whom we said, “Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.”

Ezekiel 37:5

Thus says the Lord God to these bones: I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live.

Ezekiel 37:6

I will lay sinews on you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am the Lord.”

Zechariah 12:1

An Oracle. The word of the Lord concerning Israel: Thus says the Lord, who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the human spirit within:

Numbers 16:22

They fell on their faces, and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one person sin and you become angry with the whole congregation?”

Numbers 27:16

“Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint someone over the congregation

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 human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mortals life and breath and all things.

Romans 9:20

But who indeed are you, a human being, to argue with God? Will what is molded say to the one who molds it, “Why have you made me like this?”

1 Corinthians 15:45

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

1 Corinthians 15:47

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

2 Corinthians 4:7

But we have this treasure in clay jars, so that it may be made clear that this extraordinary power belongs to God and does not come 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, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

1 Timothy 2:13

For Adam was formed first, then Eve;

Hebrews 12:9

Moreover, we had human parents to discipline us, and we respected them. Should we not be even more willing to be subject to the Father of spirits and live?