Genesis 3:19

Free Bible Version

You will have to sweat to grow enough food to eat until you die and return to the ground. For you were made from dust and you will return to dust.”

Cross References

Genesis 18:27

“Since I've started, let me go on speaking to my Lord, even though I'm nothing but dust and ashes,” Abraham continued.

Genesis 2:7

The Lord God shaped the man Adam from the dust of the ground. He breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and Adam became a living being.

Genesis 23:4

“I am a foreigner, a stranger living among you,” he said. “Please let me buy a burial site so I can bury my dead wife.”

Genesis 3:18

It will grow thorns and thistles for you, and you will have to eat wild plants.

Genesis 5:5

Adam lived a total of 930 years, and then he died.

Job 1:21

“I was naked when I came out of my mother's womb, and I shall be naked when I leave,” he said. “The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away. May the Lord's name be honored.”

Job 10:9

Remember that you shaped me like a piece of clay—are you now going to turn me back into dust?

Job 19:26

Even though my skin is destroyed, in my body I shall see God.

Job 21:26

Yet they are both buried in the same dust; they are treated alike in death, eaten by maggots.

Job 34:15

all living things would immediately die and human beings would return to dust.

Job 4:19

how much more does this apply to those who live in these houses made of clay, whose foundations are based on dust, who fall apart like clothing to a moth?

Psalm 103:14

For he knows how we are made; he remembers we are only dust.

Psalm 104:23

Then people leave for work, working until the evening.

Psalm 104:29

When you turn away from them, they're terrified; when you take away their breath, they die and return to dust.

Psalm 127:2

It's useless to get up early in the morning and go to work, and stay late into the evening, worrying about earning enough to eat, when the Lord gives rest to those he loves.

Psalm 22:15

My strength has dried up like a piece of broken pottery. My tongue is stuck to the roof of my mouth. You're burying me as if I'm already dead.

Psalm 22:29

All who prosper come to feast and worship. Bow down before him, all those destined for the grave—for none can keep themselves alive.

Psalm 90:3

You turn people back into dust, saying, “Return to dust, human beings.”

Proverbs 21:16

Anyone who wanders away from the path of understanding ends up with the dead.

Ecclesiastes 1:13

I decided to focus my mind to explore, using wisdom, everything that happens here on earth. This is a tough assignment that God has given people to keep them busy!

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What benefit do you get for slaving away in this life?

Ecclesiastes 12:7

Then the dust returns to the earth from which it came, and the breath of life returns to God who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 3:20

They all end up in the same place—they all came from dust, and they all return to dust.

Ecclesiastes 5:15

When we die, we leave just as naked as when we were born, taking nothing with us from all we've worked for.

Daniel 12:2

Millions sleeping in the ground in death will awake, some to eternal life, and some to eternal shame and disgrace.

1 Corinthians 15:47

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

Ephesians 4:28

Thieves, stop your stealing, and do honest, productive work with your hands, so you'll have something to give to those who need it.

1 Thessalonians 2:9

Don't you remember, brothers and sisters, all our hard work—working day and night so we wouldn't be a burden to any of you as we shared God's good news with you?

2 Thessalonians 3:10

Even while we were with you we gave strict instructions that anybody who didn't want to work shouldn't eat.

Hebrews 9:27

Just as human beings die only once, and then are judged,