Genesis 3:19 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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

Job 34:15

All flesh shall perish together, And man shall turn again unto dust

Psalm 104:29

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

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.

Psalm 90:3

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

Ephesians 4:28

Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have whereof to give to him that hath need.

Ecclesiastes 3:20

All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

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:

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.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What profit hath man of all his labour wherein he laboureth under the sun?

Psalm 22:15

My Strength is dried up like a potsherd; And my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; And thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

Genesis 23:4

I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.

2 Thessalonians 3:10

For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, If any will not work, neither let him eat.

Psalm 103:14

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

1 Thessalonians 2:9

For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

Ecclesiastes 5:15

As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.

Ecclesiastes 1:13

And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven: it is a sore travail that God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.

Proverbs 21:16

The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding Shall rest in the congregation of the dead.

Psalm 22:29

All the fat ones of the earth shall eat and worship: All they that go down to the dust shall bow before him, Even he that cannot keep his soul alive.

Job 21:26

They lie down alike in the dust, And the worm covereth them

Job 19:26

And after my skin hath been thus destroyed, Yet from my flesh shall I see God:

Job 1:21

and he said, Naked came : I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall : I return thither: The LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.

1 Corinthians 15:47

The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is of heaven.

Hebrews 9:27

And inasmuch as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this cometh judgement;

Genesis 3:18

thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

Job 4:19

How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Which are crushed before the moth!

Psalm 104:23

Man goeth forth unto his work And to his labour until the evening.

Psalm 127:2

It is vain for you that ye rise up early, and so late take rest, And eat the bread of toil: For so he giveth unto his beloved sleep.

Genesis 5:5

And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.

Job 10:9

Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast fashioned me as clay; And wilt thou bring me into dust again?