Genesis 3:19 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁹ By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ In the sweat of your face shall you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you shall return.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

Common English Bible

¹⁹ by the sweat of your face you will eat bread— until you return to the fertile land, since from it you were taken; you are soil, to the soil you will return.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ By the sweat of your face shall you eat bread, until you return to the earth from which you were taken. For dust you are, and unto dust you shall return."

Genesis 3:19 Cross References

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the breath returns to God who gave it.

Job 34:15

all flesh would perish together, and all mortals return to dust.

Psalm 104:29

When you hide your face, they are dismayed; when you take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.

Genesis 2:7

then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

Psalm 90:3

You turn us back to dust and say, “Turn back, you mortals.”

Ephesians 4:28

Those who steal must give up stealing; rather, let them labor, doing good work with their own hands, so as to have something to share with the needy.

Ecclesiastes 3:20

All go to one place, all are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

Genesis 18:27

Abraham answered, “Let me take it upon myself to speak to my lord, I who am but dust and ashes.

Daniel 12:2

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What do people gain from all the toil at which they toil under the sun?

Psalm 22:15

my mouth is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to my jaws; you lay me in the dust of death.

Genesis 23:4

“I am a stranger and an alien residing among you; give me property among you for a burying place, so that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

2 Thessalonians 3:10

For even when we were with you, we gave you this command: anyone unwilling to work should not eat.

Psalm 103:14

For he knows how we were made; he remembers that we are dust.

1 Thessalonians 2:9

You remember our labor and toil, brothers and sisters; we worked night and day so that we might not burden any of you while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.

Ecclesiastes 5:15

As they came from their mother’s womb, so they shall go again, naked as they came; they shall take nothing for their toil that they may carry away with their hands.

Ecclesiastes 1:13

I applied my mind to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven; it is an unhappy business that God has given to humans to be busy with.

Proverbs 21:16

Whoever wanders from the way of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead.

Psalm 22:29

To him, indeed, shall all who sleep in the earth bow down; before him shall bow all who go down to the dust, and I shall live for him.

Job 21:26

They lie down alike in the dust, and the worms cover them.

Job 19:26

and after my skin has been destroyed, then in my flesh I shall see God,

Job 1:21

He said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return there; the Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.”

1 Corinthians 15:47

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

Hebrews 9:27

And just as it is appointed for mortals to die once and after that the judgment,

Genesis 3:18

thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field.

Job 4:19

how much more those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth.

Psalm 104:23

People go out to their work and to their labor until the evening.

Psalm 127:2

It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil, for he gives sleep to his beloved.

Genesis 5:5

Thus all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred thirty years, and he died.

Job 10:9

Remember that you fashioned me like clay, and will you turn me to dust again?