Job 26:4

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.”

By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,

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

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

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

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.

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

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:

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

You turn man to destruction, saying, “Return, you children of men.”

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

You call me, ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord.’ You say so correctly, for so I am.

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

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?

to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,

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

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?”

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

He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked will I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”

Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now will I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I will not be.”

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

His bones are full of his youth, but youth will lie down with him in the dust.

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

My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned. I spoke with my tongue:

What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol?

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

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

So Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying, “As Yahweh lives, who made us this soul, I will not put you to death, neither will I give you into the hand of these men who seek your life.”

“When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.

For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers’ sake, my relatives according to the flesh

yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.

and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.

All the days that Adam lived were nine hundred thirty years, then he died.

“I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of God. Don’t defile your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.

David’s anger burned hot against the man, and he said to Nathan, “As Yahweh lives, the man who has done this deserves to die!

David said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should be adversaries to me today? Shall any man be put to death today in Israel? For don’t I know that I am king over Israel today?”

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.

“No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.

Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

You have reproached me ten times. You aren’t ashamed that you attack me.

be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.”

“Therefore my thoughts answer me, even by reason of my haste that is in me.

I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame. The spirit of my understanding answers me.

I will teach you about the hand of God. I will not conceal that which is with the Almighty.

For I am full of words. The spirit within me constrains me.

My words will utter the uprightness of my heart. That which my lips know they will speak sincerely.

Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

My mouth will speak words of wisdom. My heart will utter understanding.

This is the reward of my adversaries from Yahweh, of those who speak evil against my soul.

Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise person, and he will love you.

Yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet fails to enjoy good, don’t all go to one place?

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

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

“I have been silent a long time. I have been quiet and restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and pant.

He enters into peace. They rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness.

The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

If I say, I will not make mention of him, or speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones. I am weary with holding it in. I can’t.

But as for me, I am full of power by Yahweh’s Spirit, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his disobedience, and to Israel his sin.

Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?

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.

But he turned, and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men.”

He said to them, “How then does David in the Spirit call him Lord, saying,

But Peter answered him, “Even if all will be made to stumble because of you, I will never be made to stumble.”

Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Behold, one of those who were with Jesus stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and struck the servant of the high priest, and struck off his ear.

But he, turning around, and seeing his disciples, rebuked Peter, and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you have in mind not the things of God, but the things of men.”

But Jesus said, “Don’t forbid him, for there is no one who will do a mighty work in my name, and be able quickly to speak evil of me.

Jesus said to him, “Don’t forbid him, for he who is not against us is for us.”

But he turned and rebuked them, “You don’t know of what kind of spirit you are.

See my hands and my feet, that it is truly me. Touch me and see, for a spirit doesn’t have flesh and bones, as you see that I have.”

He will glorify me, for he will take from what is mine, and will declare it to you.

for we can’t help telling the things which we saw and heard.”

They weren’t able to withstand the wisdom and the Spirit by which he spoke.

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Therefore I make known to you that no man speaking by God’s Spirit says, “Jesus is accursed.” No one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” but by the Holy Spirit.

If any man doesn’t love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be cursed. Come, Lord!

not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,

For if he who comes preaches another Jesus, whom we didn’t preach, or if you receive a different spirit, which you didn’t receive, or a different “good news”, which you didn’t accept, you put up with that well enough.

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”

Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.

not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.

I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, like a trumpet

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.