then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
But now, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.
nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything.
The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven.
By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
as long as my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils,
Everything on the dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died.
For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust.
The oracle of the word of the Lord concerning Israel: Thus declares the Lord, who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the spirit of man within him:
Know that the Lord, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?”
All go to one place. All are from the dust, and to dust all return. Who knows whether the spirit of man goes upward and the spirit of the beast goes down into the earth?
Stop regarding man in whose nostrils is breath, for of what account is he?
therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.
And they fell on their faces and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?”
Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?
For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
The spirit of man is the lamp of the Lord, searching all his innermost parts.
Behold, I am toward God as you are; I too was pinched off from a piece of clay.
But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.
And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like the moth.
“Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation
a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
Unless otherwise indicated, all content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. Copyright ©2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Contact me: openbibleinfo (at) gmail.com.