Ecclesiastes 12:7 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁷ and the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit return unto God who gave it.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ Then shall the dust [out of which God made man's body] return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return to God Who gave it.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ and the dust returneth to the earth as it was, and the spirit returneth unto God who gave it.

Common English Bible

⁷ before dust returns to the earth as it was before and the life-breath returns to God who gave it.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ and the dust returns to its earth, from which it was, and the spirit returns to God, who granted it.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ And the dust return into its earth, from whence it was, and the spirit return to God, who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 12:7 Cross References

Genesis 18:27

And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:

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 3:19

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.

Job 20:11

His bones are full of his youth, But it shall lie down with him in the dust.

Job 7:21

And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust; And thou shall seek me diligently, but I shall not be.

Psalm 103:14

For he knoweth our frame; He remembereth that we are dust.

Psalm 104:29

Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled; Thou takest away their breath they die, And return to their dust.

Psalm 146:4

His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; In that very day his thoughts perish.

Psalm 31:6

I hate them that regard lying vanities: But I trust in the LORD.

Psalm 90:3

Thou turnest man to destruction; And sayest, Return, ye children of men.

Isaiah 57:16

For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.

Jeremiah 38:16

So Zedekiah the king sware secretly unto Jeremiah, saying, As the LORD liveth, that made us this soul, I will not put thee to death, neither will I give thee into the hand of these men that seek thy life.

Daniel 12:2

And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

Zechariah 12:1

The burden of the word of the LORD concerning Israel. Thus saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him:

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 wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation?

Numbers 27:16

Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation,

Luke 23:46

And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said this, he gave up the ghost.

Acts 7:59

And they stoned Stephen, calling upon the Lord, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

Hebrews 12:23

to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,

Hebrews 12:9

Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?