But Moses and Aaron bowed down with their faces to the ground and said, "O God, you are the source of all life. When one of us sins, do you become angry with the whole community?"

You acted against the Lord of heaven and brought in the cups and bowls taken from his Temple. You, your noblemen, your wives, and your concubines drank wine out of them and praised gods made of gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone---gods that cannot see or hear and that do not know anything. But you did not honor the God who determines whether you live or die and who controls everything you do.

Nor does he need anything that we can supply by working for him, since it is he himself who gives life and breath and everything else to everyone.

as someone has said, 'In him we live and move and exist.' It is as some of your poets have said, 'We too are his children.'

as long as God gives me breath,

If God took back the breath of life,

then everyone living would die and turn into dust again.

Then the LORD God took some soil from the ground and formed a man out of it; he breathed life-giving breath into his nostrils and the man began to live.

I am going to send a flood on the earth to destroy every living being. Everything on the earth will die,

When you turn away, they are afraid; when you take away your breath, they die and go back to the dust from which they came.

Don't put your trust in human leaders; no human being can save you.

When they die, they return to the dust; on that day all their plans come to an end.

A person is born physically of human parents, but is born spiritually of the Spirit.