Psalm 146:4
New Living Translation
4 When they breathe their last, they return to the earth,
and all their plans die with them.
Psalm 146:4
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Ecclesiastes 12:7
New Living Translation
7 For then the dust will return to the earth, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.
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Ecclesiastes 12:7
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Psalm 104:29
New Living Translation
29 But if you turn away from them, they panic.
When you take away their breath,
they die and turn again to dust.
Psalm 104:29
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Genesis 2:7
New Living Translation
7 Then the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nostrils, and the man became a living person.
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Genesis 2:7
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7 Then the Lord God formed(A) a man[a](B) from the dust(C) of the ground(D) and breathed into his nostrils the breath(E) of life,(F) and the man became a living being.(G)
Footnotes
- Genesis 2:7 The Hebrew for man (adam) sounds like and may be related to the Hebrew for ground (adamah); it is also the name Adam (see verse 20).
Genesis 3:19
New Living Translation
19 By the sweat of your brow
will you have food to eat
until you return to the ground
from which you were made.
For you were made from dust,
and to dust you will return.”
Genesis 3:19
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1 Corinthians 2:6
New Living Translation
6 Yet when I am among mature believers, I do speak with words of wisdom, but not the kind of wisdom that belongs to this world or to the rulers of this world, who are soon forgotten.
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1 Corinthians 2:6
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God’s Wisdom Revealed by the Spirit
6 We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature,(A) but not the wisdom of this age(B) or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.(C)
Psalm 33:10
New Living Translation
10 The Lord frustrates the plans of the nations
and thwarts all their schemes.
Psalm 33:10
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Job 27:3
New Living Translation
3 As long as I live,
while I have breath from God,
Job 27:3
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3 as long as I have life within me,
the breath of God(A) in my nostrils,
Job 17:11
New Living Translation
11 My days are over.
My hopes have disappeared.
My heart’s desires are broken.
Job 17:11
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Job 14:21
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21 They never know if their children grow up in honor
or sink to insignificance.
Job 14:21
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21 If their children are honored, they do not know it;
if their offspring are brought low, they do not see it.(A)
Daniel 5:23
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23 For you have proudly defied the Lord of heaven and have had these cups from his Temple brought before you. You and your nobles and your wives and concubines have been drinking wine from them while praising gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone—gods that neither see nor hear nor know anything at all. But you have not honored the God who gives you the breath of life and controls your destiny!
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Daniel 5:23
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23 Instead, you have set yourself up against(A) the Lord of heaven. You had the goblets from his temple brought to you, and you and your nobles, your wives(B) and your concubines drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand.(C) But you did not honor the God who holds in his hand your life(D) and all your ways.(E)
Lamentations 4:20
New Living Translation
20 Our king—the Lord’s anointed, the very life of our nation—
was caught in their snares.
We had thought that his shadow
would protect us against any nation on earth!
Lamentations 4:20
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Isaiah 2:22
New Living Translation
22 Don’t put your trust in mere humans.
They are as frail as breath.
What good are they?
Isaiah 2:22
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