The King James Version Bible

Genesis 2:7

And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Cross References

  1. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
  2. The spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.
  3. And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
  4. For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.
  5. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
  6. But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
  7. The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.
  8. Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
  9. All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
  10. All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;
  11. Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of ?
  12. Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
  13. And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation?
  14. Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation,
  15. How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
  16. Behold, I am according to thy wish in God's stead: I also am formed out of the clay.
  17. Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
  18. The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.
  19. A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
  20. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
  21. The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
  22. And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:
  23. Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
  24. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
  25. For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
  26. Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?