Ecclesiastes 12:7

American King James Version (1999)

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

Cross References

Genesis 18:27

And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken on me to speak to 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 your face shall you eat bread, till you return to the ground; for out of it were you taken: for dust you are, and to dust shall you return.

Job 20:11

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

Job 7:21

And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and you shall seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.

Psalm 103:14

For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust.

Psalm 104:29

You hide your face, they are troubled: you take away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.

Psalm 146:4

His breath goes forth, he returns to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.

Psalm 31:6

I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.

Psalm 90:3

You turn man to destruction; and say, Return, you 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 swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying, As the LORD lives, that made us this soul, I will not put you to death, neither will I give you into the hand of these men that seek your 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 for Israel, said the LORD, which stretches forth the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him.

Numbers 16:22

And they fell on their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be wroth with all the congregation?

Numbers 27:16

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

Luke 23:46

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

Acts 7:59

And they stoned Stephen, calling on God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

Hebrews 12:23

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

Hebrews 12:9

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