Ecclesiastes 12:7

New American Bible - revised edition

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

Cross References

Genesis 18:27

Abraham spoke up again: “See how I am presuming to speak to my Lord, though I am only dust and ashes!

Genesis 2:7

then the Lord God formed the man out of the dust of the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your brow you shall eat bread, Until you return to the ground, from which you were taken; For you are dust, and to dust you shall return.

Job 20:11

Though his bones are full of youthful vigor, it shall lie with him in the dust.

Job 7:21

Why do you not pardon my offense, or take away my guilt? For soon I shall lie down in the dust; and should you seek me I shall be gone.

Psalm 103:14

For he knows how we are formed, remembers that we are dust.

Psalm 104:29

When you hide your face, they panic. Take away their breath, they perish and return to the dust.

Psalm 146:4

Who breathing his last, returns to the earth; that day all his planning comes to nothing.

Psalm 31:6

Into your hands I commend my spirit; you will redeem me, Lord, God of truth.

Psalm 90:3

You turn humanity back into dust, saying, “Return, you children of Adam!”

Isaiah 57:16

For I will not accuse forever, nor always be angry; For without me their spirit fails, the life breath that I have given.

Jeremiah 38:16

But King Zedekiah swore to Jeremiah secretly: “As the Lord lives who gave us our lives, I will not kill you, nor will I hand you over to those men who seek your life.”

Daniel 12:2

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake; Some to everlasting life, others to reproach and everlasting disgrace.

Zechariah 12:1

An oracle: The word of the Lord concerning Israel—oracle of the Lord, who spreads out the heavens, lays the foundations of the earth, and fashions the human spirit within:

Numbers 16:22

But they fell prostrate and exclaimed, “O God, God of the spirits of all living creatures, if one man sins will you be angry with the whole community?”

Numbers 27:16

“May the Lord, the God of the spirits of all humanity, set over the community someone

Luke 23:46

Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commend my spirit”; and when he had said this he breathed his last.

Acts 7:59

As they were stoning Stephen, he called out, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”

Hebrews 12:23

and the assembly of the firstborn enrolled in heaven, and God the judge of all, and the spirits of the just made perfect,

Hebrews 12:9

Besides this, we have had our earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them. Should we not [then] submit all the more to the Father of spirits and live?