Ecclesiastes 12:7

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 18:27

Abraham answered and said, “Behold, I who am but dust and ashes have taken it upon myself to speak to the Lord.

Genesis 2:7

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

Genesis 3:19

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

Job 20:11

His bones are full of his youthful vigor, but it will lie down with him in the dust.

Job 7:21

And why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust; and You will seek me diligently, but I will not be.”

Psalm 103:14

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

Psalm 104:29

You hide Your face; they are troubled; You take away their breath; they die and return to their dust.

Psalm 146:4

His spirit departs, he returns to the earth; on that very day his plans perish.

Psalm 31:6

I have hated those who regard worthless idols, but I trust in the Lord.

Psalm 90:3

You return man to the dust and say, “Return, O sons of men.”

Isaiah 57:16

For I will not contend forever, nor will I always be angry; for the spirit would grow faint before Me, and the souls whom I have made.

Jeremiah 38:16

So Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying, “As the Lord lives, who made our souls, I surely will not put you to death, nor will I give you into the hand of these men who seek your life.”

Daniel 12:2

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake—some to everlasting life, and others to everlasting shame and contempt.

Zechariah 12:1

The oracle of the word of the Lord against Israel. Thus says the Lord, the One who stretches out the heavens and establishes the earth and forms the spirit of man within him:

Numbers 16:22

They fell on their faces and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, will one man sin and You will be angry with all the assembly?”

Numbers 27:16

“Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the assembly

Luke 23:46

And Jesus cried out with a loud voice, “Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit.” Having said this, He gave up the spirit.

Acts 7:59

They stoned Stephen as he was calling on God, praying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”

Hebrews 12:23

to the general assembly and church of the firstborn, who are enrolled in heaven; to God, the Judge of all; and to the spirits of the righteous ones made complete;

Hebrews 12:9

Furthermore, we have had human fathers, and they corrected us, and we gave them reverence. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?