Genesis 3:19

Bible in Basic English 1965

With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.

Cross References

Genesis 18:27

And Abraham answering said, Truly, I who am only dust, have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord:

Genesis 2:7

And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth, breathing into him the breath of life: and man became a living soul.

Genesis 23:4

I am living among you as one from a strange country: give me some land here as my property, so that I may put my dead to rest.

Genesis 3:18

Thorns and waste plants will come up, and the plants of the field will be your food;

Genesis 5:5

And all the years of Adam's life were nine hundred and thirty: and he came to his end.

Job 1:21

With nothing I came out of my mother's body, and with nothing I will go back there; the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; let the Lord's name be praised.

Job 10:9

O keep in mind that you made me out of earth; and will you send me back again to dust?

Job 19:26

And (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) without my flesh I will see God;

Job 21:26

Together they go down to the dust, and are covered by the worm.

Job 34:15

All flesh would come to an end together, and man would go back to the dust.

Job 4:19

How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect;

Psalm 103:14

For he has knowledge of our feeble frame; he sees that we are only dust.

Psalm 104:23

Man goes out to his work, and to his business, till the evening.

Psalm 104:29

If your face is veiled, they are troubled; when you take away their breath, they come to an end, and go back to the dust.

Psalm 127:2

It is of no use for you to get up early, and to go late to your rest, with the bread of sorrow for your food; for the Lord gives to his loved ones in sleep.

Psalm 22:15

My throat is dry like a broken vessel; my tongue is fixed to the roof of my mouth, and the dust of death is on my lips.

Psalm 22:29

All the fat ones of the earth will give him worship; all those who go down to the dust will make themselves low before him, even he who has not enough for the life of his soul.

Psalm 90:3

You send man back to his dust; and say, Go back, you children of men.

Proverbs 21:16

The wanderer from the way of knowledge will have his resting-place among the shades.

Ecclesiastes 1:13

And I gave my heart to searching out in wisdom all things which are done under heaven: it is a hard thing which God has put on the sons of men to do.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What is a man profited by all his work which he does under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 12:7

And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 3:20

All go to one place, all are of the dust, and all will be turned to dust again.

Ecclesiastes 5:15

As he came from his mother at birth, so does he go again; he gets from his work no reward which he may take away in his hand.

Daniel 12:2

And a number of those who are sleeping in the dust of the earth will come out of their sleep, some to eternal life and some to eternal shame.

1 Corinthians 15:47

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

Ephesians 4:28

Let him who was a thief be so no longer, but let him do good work with his hands, so that he may have something to give to him who is in need.

1 Thessalonians 2:9

For you have the memory, my brothers, of our trouble and care; how, working night and day, so that we might not be a trouble to any of you, we gave you the good news of God.

2 Thessalonians 3:10

For even when we were with you we gave you orders, saying, If any man does no work, let him not have food.

Hebrews 9:27

And because by God's law death comes to men once, and after that they are judged;