Genesis 3:19

Good News Translation

You will have to work hard and sweat to make the soil produce anything, until you go back to the soil from which you were formed. You were made from soil, and you will become soil again.”

Cross References

Genesis 18:27

Abraham spoke again: “Please forgive my boldness in continuing to speak to you, Lord. I am only a man and have no right to say anything.

Genesis 2:7

Then the Lord God took some soil from the ground and formed a man out of it; he breathed life-giving breath into his nostrils and the man began to live.

Genesis 23:4

“I am a foreigner living here among you; sell me some land, so that I can bury my wife.”

Genesis 3:18

It will produce weeds and thorns, and you will have to eat wild plants.

Genesis 5:5

and died at the age of 930.

Job 1:21

He said, “I was born with nothing, and I will die with nothing. The Lord gave, and now he has taken away. May his name be praised!”

Job 10:9

Remember that you made me from clay; are you going to crush me back to dust?

Job 19:26

Even after my skin is eaten by disease, while still in this body I will see God.

Job 21:26

But all alike die and are buried; they all are covered with worms.

Job 34:15

then everyone living would die and turn into dust again.

Job 4:19

Do you think he will trust a creature of clay, a thing of dust that can be crushed like a moth?

Psalm 103:14

He knows what we are made of; he remembers that we are dust.

Psalm 104:23

Then people go out to do their work and keep working until evening.

Psalm 104:29

When you turn away, they are afraid; when you take away your breath, they die and go back to the dust from which they came.

Psalm 127:2

It is useless to work so hard for a living, getting up early and going to bed late. For the Lord provides for those he loves, while they are asleep.

Psalm 22:15

My throat is as dry as dust, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have left me for dead in the dust.

Psalm 22:29

All proud people will bow down to him; all mortals will bow down before him.

Psalm 90:3

You tell us to return to what we were; you change us back to dust.

Proverbs 21:16

Death is waiting for anyone who wanders away from good sense.

Ecclesiastes 1:13

I determined that I would examine and study all the things that are done in this world. God has laid a miserable fate upon us.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

You spend your life working, laboring, and what do you have to show for it?

Ecclesiastes 12:7

Our bodies will return to the dust of the earth, and the breath of life will go back to God, who gave it to us.

Ecclesiastes 3:20

They are both going to the same place—the dust. They both came from it; they will both go back to it.

Ecclesiastes 5:15

We leave this world just as we entered it—with nothing. In spite of all our work there is nothing we can take with us.

Daniel 12:2

Many of those who have already died will live again: some will enjoy eternal life, and some will suffer eternal disgrace.

1 Corinthians 15:47

The first Adam, made of earth, came from the earth; the second Adam came from heaven.

Ephesians 4:28

If you used to rob, you must stop robbing and start working, in order to earn an honest living for yourself and to be able to help the poor.

1 Thessalonians 2:9

Surely you remember, our friends, how we worked and toiled! We worked day and night so that we would not be any trouble to you as we preached to you the Good News from God.

2 Thessalonians 3:10

While we were with you, we used to tell you, “Whoever refuses to work is not allowed to eat.”

Hebrews 9:27

Everyone must die once, and after that be judged by God.