Job 33:4

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

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

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

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.

All things were made through him. Without him, nothing was made that has been made.

The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

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.”

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

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

Yahweh, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb says: “I am Yahweh, who makes all things; who alone stretches out the heavens; who spreads out the earth by myself;

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

For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.

But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

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.

For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

“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.

Now as for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom; and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.

‘For in him we live, move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’

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

who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

By faith, we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made out of things which are visible.

He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” He said, “Write, for these words of God are faithful and true.”

The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished.

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

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

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

You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire for the work of your hands.

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

By his Spirit the heavens are garnished. His hand has pierced the swift serpent.

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

Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind?

Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me. Your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.

For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Search in the book of Yahweh, and read: not one of these will be missing. None will lack her mate. For my mouth has commanded, and his Spirit has gathered them.

I have made the earth, and created man on it. I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens. I have commanded all their army.

For Yahweh who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and didn’t create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited says: “I am Yahweh. There is no other.

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

Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man, and tell the wind, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Come from the four winds, breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.” ’ ”

but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. You have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which don’t see, or hear, or know; and you have not glorified the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways.

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:

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

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

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 you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

For Adam was formed first, then Eve.

not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

For to this end the Good News was preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed as men in the flesh, but live as to God in the spirit.

For this they willfully forget that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water by the word of God,

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

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?”

behold, I have done according to your word. Behold, I have given you a wise and understanding heart; so that there has been no one like you before you, and after you none will arise like you.

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

For he spoke, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood firm.

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.

‘I have made the earth, the men, and the animals that are on the surface of the earth by my great power and by my outstretched arm. I give it to whom it seems right to me.

He changes the times and the seasons. He removes kings, and sets up kings. He gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those who have understanding.

Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.

I find then the law that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.

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

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:

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.

Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

You have granted me life and loving kindness. Your visitation has preserved my spirit.

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

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

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

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