Cross References → Genesis 2:7

Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.

formed man

Psalms 100:3
Know that the LORD is God. It is He who made us, and we are His; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.
Psalms 139:14-15
I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well. My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
Isaiah 64:8
But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.

dust

Genesis 3:19,23
By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.” ... Therefore the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.
Job 4:19
how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!
Job 33:6
I am just like you before God; I was also formed from clay.
Psalms 103:14
For He knows our frame; He is mindful that we are dust.
Ecclesiastes 3:7,20
a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, ... All go to one place; all come from dust, and all return to dust.
Ecclesiastes 12:7
before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
Isaiah 64:8
But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.
Romans 9:20
But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?”
1 Corinthians 15:47
The first man was of the dust of the earth, the second man from heaven.
2 Corinthians 4:7
Now we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this surpassingly great power is from God and not from us.
2 Corinthians 5:1
Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is dismantled, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.

breathed

Job 27:3
as long as my breath is still within me and the breath of God remains in my nostrils,
Job 33:4
The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
John 20:22
When He had said this, He breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit.
Acts 17:25
Nor is He served by human hands, as if He needed anything, because He Himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.

nostrils

Genesis 7:22
Of all that was on dry land, everything that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.
Ecclesiastes 3:21
Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and the spirit of the animal descends into the earth?
Isaiah 2:22
Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?

a living being

Numbers 16:22
But Moses and Aaron fell facedown and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, when one man sins, will You be angry with the whole congregation?”
Numbers 27:16
“May the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation
Proverbs 20:27
The spirit of a man is the lamp of the LORD, searching out his inmost being.
Zechariah 12:1
This is the burden of the word of the LORD concerning Israel. Thus declares the LORD, who stretches out the heavens and lays the foundation of the earth, who forms the spirit of man within him:
1 Corinthians 15:45
So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being;” the last Adam a life-giving spirit.
Hebrews 12:9
Furthermore, we have all had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. Should we not much more submit to the Father of our spirits and live?