Genesis 2:7

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in Yahweh’s house forever.

So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay; that the thing made should say about him who made it, “He didn’t make me;” or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding?”

The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.”

Your hands have made me and formed me. Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.

“House of Israel, can’t I do with you as this potter?” says Yahweh. “Behold, as the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

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

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.

He who comes from above is above all. He who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

Oh come, let’s worship and bow down. Let’s kneel before Yahweh, our Maker,

For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.

You hide your face; they are troubled. You take away their breath; they die and return to the dust.

You send out your Spirit and they are created. You renew the face of the ground.

Don’t put your trust in princes, in a son of man in whom there is no help.

All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

Woe to him who strives with his Maker— a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands?’

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

Or hasn’t the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?

that your faith wouldn’t stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator.

but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.

Why do you strive against him, because he doesn’t give account of any of his matters?

God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?

His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

Let Israel rejoice in him who made them. Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.

Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?”

“I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who will be made as grass?

For I will not contend forever, neither will I always be angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls whom I have made.

Yahweh says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, relies on strength of flesh, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.

“Ah Lord Yahweh! Behold, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for you.

The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how they are esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven.

In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.

He isn’t served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.

He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven.

and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might

All on the dry land, in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.

Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?

“Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.

(for the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);

But there is a spirit in man, and the Spirit of the Almighty gives them understanding.

Man goes out to his work, to his labor until the evening.

For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn’t know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, Yahweh, are our Father. Our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.

The Lord Yahweh says to these bones: “Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you will live.

For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires.

But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

For Adam was formed first, then Eve.

For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

Therefore Yahweh God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.

all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.

Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?

Remember these things, Jacob and Israel; for you are my servant. I have formed you. You are my servant. Israel, you will not be forgotten by me.

“He has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom. By his understanding he has stretched out the heavens.

The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Yahweh, was taken in their pits; of whom we said, under his shadow we will live among the nations.

Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes.

Behold, I am toward God even as you are. I am also formed out of the clay.

A revelation, Yahweh’s word concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:

Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

After the three and a half days, the breath of life from God entered into them, and they stood on their feet. Great fear fell on those who saw them.

I, even I, will bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.

They fell on their faces, and said, “God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?”

How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?

Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes. Your defenses are defenses of clay.

who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

For you have made him a little lower than the angels, and crowned him with glory and honor.

By Yahweh’s word, the heavens were made: all their army by the breath of his mouth.

The spirit of man is Yahweh’s lamp, searching all his innermost parts.

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

God Yahweh, he who created the heavens and stretched them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it, says:

When they stood, these stood. When they mounted up, these mounted up with them; for the spirit of the living creature was in them.

When he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit!

But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.

It was given to him to give breath to it, to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause as many as wouldn’t worship the image of the beast to be killed.

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