In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.
for “‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, “‘For we are indeed his offspring.’
The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
And they fell on their faces and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?”
nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything.
as long as my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils,
but you have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven. And the vessels of his house have been brought in before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines have drunk wine from them. And you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or know, but the God in whose hand is your breath, and whose are all your ways, you have not honored.
Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation. When his breath departs, he returns to the earth; on that very day his plans perish.
When you hide your face, they are dismayed; when you take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.
If he should set his heart to it and gather to himself his spirit and his breath, all flesh would perish together, and man would return to dust.
then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven. Everything that is on the earth shall die.
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