Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.

Mankind

General references

Bible References

Whose hand

Numbers 16:22
And they fell upon 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?
Daniel 5:23
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 in them; and you have praised the gods of silver, and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, have you not glorified:
Acts 17:25
Neither is worshiped with men's hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he gives to all life, and breath, and all things;

The breath

Job 27:3
All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;
Job 34:14
If he should set his heart upon man, if he should gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;
Genesis 2:7
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Genesis 6:17
And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, in which is the breath of life, from under heaven; and everything that is in the earth shall die.
Psalm 104:29
You hide your face, they are troubled: you take away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
Psalm 146:3
Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.

Mankind

John 3:6
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

General references

Genesis 1:25
And God made the beasts of the earth after their kinds, and cattle after their kinds, and every thing that creeps upon the earth after its kind: and God saw that it was good.