Genesis 3:19

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

You will work hard for your food, until your face is covered with sweat. You will work hard until the day you die, and then you will become dust again. I used dust to make you, and when you die, you will become dust again.”

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 12:7

Your body came from the earth. And when you die, it will return to the earth. But your spirit came from God, and when you die, it will return to him.

Job 34:15

then everything on earth would die. We would all become dust again.

Psalm 104:29

When you turn away from them, they become frightened. When you take away their breath, they die, and their bodies return to the dust.

Genesis 2:7

Then the Lord God took dust from the ground and made a man. He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nose, and the man became a living thing.

Psalm 90:3

You bring people into this world, and you change them into dust again.

Ephesians 4:28

Whoever has been stealing must stop it and start working. They must use their hands for doing something good. Then they will have something to share with those who are poor.

Ecclesiastes 3:20

The bodies of people and animals end the same way. They came from the earth, and, in the end, they will go back to the earth.

Genesis 18:27

Then Abraham said, “Compared to you, Lord, I am only dust and ashes. But let me bother you again and ask you this question.

Daniel 12:2

There are many who are dead and buried. Some of them will wake up and live forever, but others will wake up to shame and disgrace forever.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

Do people really gain anything from all the hard work they do in this life?

Psalm 22:15

My mouth is as dry as a piece of baked pottery. My tongue is sticking to the roof of my mouth. You have left me dying in the dust.

Genesis 23:4

“I am only a foreigner staying in your country. I have no place to bury my wife. Please give me some land so that I can bury her.”

2 Thessalonians 3:10

When we were with you, we gave you this rule: “Whoever will not work should not be allowed to eat.”

Psalm 103:14

He knows all about us. He knows we are made from dust.

1 Thessalonians 2:9

Brothers and sisters, I know that you remember how hard we worked. We worked night and day to support ourselves, so that we would not be a burden to anyone while we did the work of telling you God’s Good News.

Ecclesiastes 5:15

People come into the world with nothing. And when they die, they leave with nothing. They might work hard to get things, but they cannot take anything with them when they die.

Ecclesiastes 1:13

I decided to study and to use my wisdom to learn about everything that is done in this life. I learned that it is a very hard thing that God has given us to do.

Proverbs 21:16

Whoever leaves the path of wisdom will be on their way to an early death.

Psalm 22:29

The people have eaten all they wanted and bowed down to worship him. Yes, everyone will bow down to him— all who are on the way to the grave, unable to hold on to life.

Job 21:26

In the end, both of these people will lie together in the dirt. The worms will cover them both.

Job 19:26

After I leave my body and my skin has been destroyed, I know I will still see God.

Job 1:21

and said, “When I was born into this world, I was naked and had nothing. When I die and leave this world, I will be naked and have nothing. The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away. Praise the name of the Lord!”

1 Corinthians 15:47

The first man came from the dust of the earth. The second man came from heaven.

Hebrews 9:27

Everyone must die once. Then they are judged.

Genesis 3:18

The ground will grow thorns and weeds for you. And you will have to eat the plants that grow wild in the fields.

Job 4:19

So surely people are worse! They live in houses of clay built on dust. They can be crushed as easily as a moth!

Psalm 104:23

Then people go out to do their work, and they work until evening.

Psalm 127:2

It is a waste of time to get up early and stay up late, trying to make a living. The Lord provides for those he loves, even while they are sleeping.

Genesis 5:5

So Adam lived a total of 930 years; then he died.

Job 10:9

Remember, you molded me like clay. Will you turn me into clay again?