¹⁰ In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all flesh of man.

²⁸ For in him we have life and motion and existence; as certain of your verse writers have said, For we are his offspring.

³ (For all my breath is still in me, and the spirit of God is my life;)

²² Then falling down on their faces they said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, because of one man's sin will your wrath be moved against all the people?

³ Put not your faith in rulers, or in the son of man, in whom there is no salvation.

⁴ Man's breath goes out, he is turned back again to dust; in that day all his purposes come to an end.

¹⁴ If he made his spirit come back to him, taking his breath into himself again,

¹⁵ All flesh would come to an end together, and man would go back to the dust.

⁴ The spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Ruler of all gives me life.

²⁵ And he is not dependent on the work of men's hands, as if he had need of anything, for he himself gives to all life and breath and all things;

⁶ That which has birth from the flesh is flesh, and that which has birth from the Spirit is spirit.

²³ But you have been lifting yourself up against the Lord of heaven, and they have put the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your women, have taken wine in them; and you have given praise to gods of silver and gold, of brass and iron and wood and stone, who are without the power of seeing or hearing, and without knowledge: and to the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not given glory;

²⁹ If your face is veiled, they are troubled; when you take away their breath, they come to an end, and go back to the dust.

¹⁷ For truly, I will send a great flow of waters over the earth, for the destruction from under the heaven of all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything on the earth will come to an end.

⁷ And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth, breathing into him the breath of life: and man became a living soul.