Genesis 3:19

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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.

Cross References

Genesis 18:27

Abraham answered, Behold now, I who am but dust and ashes have taken upon myself to speak to the Lord.

Genesis 2:7

Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath or spirit of life, and man became a living being. [I Cor. 15:45-49.]

Genesis 23:4

I am a stranger and a sojourner with you; give me property for a burial place among you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.

Genesis 3:18

Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth for you, and you shall eat the plants of the field.

Genesis 5:5

So altogether Adam lived 930 years, and he died.

Job 1:21

And said, Naked (without possessions) came I [into this world] from my mother's womb, and naked (without possessions) shall I depart. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; blessed (praised and magnified in worship) be the name of the Lord!

Job 10:9

Remember [earnestly], I beseech You, that You have fashioned me as clay [out of the same earth material, exquisitely and elaborately]. And will You bring me into dust again?

Job 19:26

And after my skin, even this body, has been destroyed, then from my flesh or without it I shall see God,

Job 21:26

They lie down alike in the dust, and the worm spreads a covering over them.

Job 34:15

All flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust. [Ps. 104:29; Eccl. 12:7.]

Job 4:19

How much more those who dwell in houses (bodies) of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who are crushed like the moth.

Psalm 103:14

For He knows our frame, He [earnestly] remembers and imprints [on His heart] that we are dust.

Psalm 104:23

Man goes forth to his work and remains at his task until evening.

Psalm 104:29

When You hide Your face, they are troubled and dismayed; when You take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.

Psalm 127:2

It is vain for you to rise up early, to take rest late, to eat the bread of [anxious] toil–for He gives [blessings] to His beloved in sleep.

Psalm 22:15

My strength is dried up like a fragment of clay pottery; [with thirst] my tongue cleaves to my jaws; and You have brought me into the dust of death. [John 19:28.]

Psalm 22:29

All the mighty ones upon earth shall eat [in thanksgiving] and worship; all they that go down to the dust shall bow before Him, even he who cannot keep himself alive.

Psalm 90:3

You turn man back to dust and corruption, and say, Return, O sons of the earthborn [to the earth]!

Proverbs 21:16

A man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall abide in the congregation of the spirits (of the dead).

Ecclesiastes 1:13

And I applied myself by heart and mind to seek and search out by [human] wisdom all human activity under heaven. It is a miserable business which God has given to the sons of man with which to busy themselves.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What profit does man have left from all his toil at which he toils under the sun? [Is life worth living?]

Ecclesiastes 12:7

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.

Ecclesiastes 3:20

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

Ecclesiastes 5:15

As [the man] came forth from his mother's womb, so he will go again, naked as he came; and he will take away nothing for all his labor which he can carry in his hand.

Daniel 12:2

And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake: some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt and abhorrence. [John 5:29.]

1 Corinthians 15:47

The first man [was] from out of earth, made of dust (earthly-minded); the second Man [is] the Lord from out of heaven. [Gen. 2:7.]

Ephesians 4:28

Let the thief steal no more, but rather let him be industrious, making an honest living with his own hands, so that he may be able to give to those in need.

1 Thessalonians 2:9

For you recall our hard toil and struggles, brethren. We worked night and day [and plied our trade] in order not to be a burden to any of you [for our support] while we proclaimed the glad tidings (the Gospel) of God to you.

2 Thessalonians 3:10

For while we were yet with you, we gave you this rule and charge: If anyone will not work, neither let him eat.

Hebrews 9:27

And just as it is appointed for [all] men once to die, and after that the [certain] judgment,