Genesis 3:19

Modern English Version

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.”

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 23:4

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

Genesis 3:18

Thorns and thistles it will bring forth for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.

Genesis 5:5

So all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.

Job 1:21

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

Job 10:9

Remember, I pray, that You have made me as the clay. And would You return me to dust?

Job 19:26

and after my skin is destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God,

Job 21:26

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

Job 34:15

all flesh will perish together, and man will turn again to dust.

Job 4:19

Even more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth.

Psalm 103:14

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

Psalm 104:23

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

Psalm 104:29

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

Psalm 127:2

It is in vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrowful toil; for so He gives His beloved sleep.

Psalm 22:15

My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaves to my jaws; You have set me in the dust of death.

Psalm 22:29

All the prosperous ones of the earth will eat and worship; all who go down to the dust will bow before Him, even he who cannot preserve his own life.

Psalm 90:3

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

Proverbs 21:16

A man who strays from the road of understanding will rest in the congregation of the dead.

Ecclesiastes 1:13

I set my heart to seek and to investigate with wisdom everything that is done under heaven. It is a burdensome task that God has given to humanity to be occupied with.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What benefit is there to a person in all his labors at which he toils under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 12:7

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

Ecclesiastes 3:20

All go to one place; everything came from dust, and returns to dust.

Ecclesiastes 5:15

As he came from his mother’s womb, naked he will depart, as he came; he will not take anything for his labor, which he may carry away with his hands.

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.

1 Corinthians 15:47

The first man was of the earth, made of dust; the second man was the Lord from heaven.

Ephesians 4:28

Let him who steals steal no more. Instead, let him labor, working with his hands things which are good, that he may have something to share with him who is in need.

1 Thessalonians 2:9

For you remember, brothers, our labor and toil. Laboring night and day so as not to be an expense to any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.

2 Thessalonians 3:10

For when we were with you, we commanded you that if any will not work, neither shall he eat.

Hebrews 9:27

As it is appointed for men to die once, but after this comes the judgment,