Genesis 3:19

English Standard Version 2016

By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Job 34:15

all flesh would perish together, and man would return to dust.

Psalm 104:29

When you hide your face, they are dismayed; when you take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.

Genesis 2:7

then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

Psalm 90:3

You return man to dust and say, “Return, O children of man!”

Ephesians 4:28

Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.

Ecclesiastes 3:20

All go to one place. All are from the dust, and to dust all return.

Genesis 18:27

Abraham answered and said, “Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes.

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.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?

Psalm 22:15

my strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to my jaws; you lay me in the dust of death.

Genesis 23:4

“I am a sojourner and foreigner among you; give me property among you for a burying place, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

2 Thessalonians 3:10

For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.

Psalm 103:14

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

1 Thessalonians 2:9

For you remember, brothers, our labor and toil: we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.

Ecclesiastes 5:15

As he came from his mother’s womb he shall go again, naked as he came, and shall take nothing for his toil that he may carry away in his hand.

Ecclesiastes 1:13

And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven. It is an unhappy business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with.

Proverbs 21:16

One who wanders from the way of good sense will rest in the assembly of the dead.

Psalm 22:29

All the prosperous of the earth eat and worship; before him shall bow all who go down to the dust, even the one who could not keep himself alive.

Job 21:26

They lie down alike in the dust, and the worms cover them.

Job 19:26

And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God,

Job 1:21

And he said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.”

1 Corinthians 15:47

The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven.

Hebrews 9:27

And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,

Genesis 3:18

thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field.

Job 4:19

how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like the moth.

Psalm 104:23

Man goes out to his work and to his labor until the evening.

Psalm 127:2

It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep.

Genesis 5:5

Thus all the days that Adam lived were 930 years, and he died.

Job 10:9

Remember that you have made me like clay; and will you return me to the dust?