Genesis 2:7

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

then the Lord God formed man of dust from 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 went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground—

Genesis 3:19

In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till 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 the 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

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

Job 4:19

how much 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 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 our frame; he remembers that we are dust.

Proverbs 20:27

The spirit of man is the lamp of the Lord, searching all his innermost parts.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

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

Ecclesiastes 3:7

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

Isaiah 2:22

Turn away from man in whose nostrils is breath, for of what account is he?

Isaiah 64:8

Yet, O Lord, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou art our potter; we are all the work of thy hand.

Lamentations 4:20

The breath of our nostrils, the Lord's anointed, was taken in their pits, he 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, and you shall live.

Ezekiel 37:6

And I will lay sinews upon 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 spirit of man within him:

Numbers 16:22

And they fell on their faces, and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be angry with all the congregation?”

Numbers 27:16

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

John 20:22

And 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 men life and breath and everything.

Romans 9:20

But who are you, a man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me thus?”

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 earthen vessels, to show that the transcendent power belongs to God and not to 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

Besides this, we have had earthly fathers to discipline us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?