Genesis 3:19

New American Bible - revised edition

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.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 12:7

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

Job 34:15

All flesh would perish together, and mortals return to dust.

Psalm 104:29

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

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.

Psalm 90:3

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

Ephesians 4:28

The thief must no longer steal, but rather labor, doing honest work with his [own] hands, so that he may have something to share with one in need.

Ecclesiastes 3:20

Both go to the same place; both were made from the dust, and to the dust they both return.

Genesis 18:27

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

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.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What profit have we from all the toil which we toil at under the sun?

Psalm 22:15

Like water my life drains away; all my bones are disjointed. My heart has become like wax, it melts away within me.

Genesis 23:4

“Although I am a resident alien among you, sell me from your holdings a burial place, that I may bury my deceased wife.”

2 Thessalonians 3:10

In fact, when we were with you, we instructed you that if anyone was unwilling to work, neither should that one eat.

Psalm 103:14

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

1 Thessalonians 2:9

You recall, brothers, our toil and drudgery. Working night and day in order not to burden any of you, we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.

Ecclesiastes 5:15

This too is a grievous evil, that they go just as they came. What then does it profit them to toil for the wind?

Ecclesiastes 1:13

and I applied my mind to search and investigate in wisdom all things that are done under the sun. A bad business God has given to human beings to be busied with.

Proverbs 21:16

Whoever strays from the way of good sense will abide in the assembly of the shades.

Psalm 22:29

For kingship belongs to the Lord, the ruler over the nations.

Job 21:26

Alike they lie down in the dust, and worms cover them both.

Job 19:26

This will happen when my skin has been stripped off, and from my flesh I will see God:

Job 1:21

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

1 Corinthians 15:47

The first man was from the earth, earthly; the second man, from heaven.

Hebrews 9:27

Just as it is appointed that human beings die once, and after this the judgment,

Genesis 3:18

Thorns and thistles it shall bear for you, and you shall eat the grass of the field.

Job 4:19

How much more with those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed more easily than a moth!

Psalm 104:23

People go out to their work, to their labor till evening falls.

Psalm 127:2

It is vain for you to rise early and put off your rest at night, To eat bread earned by hard toil— all this God gives to his beloved in sleep.

Genesis 5:5

The whole lifetime of Adam was nine hundred and thirty years; then he died.

Job 10:9

Oh, remember that you fashioned me from clay! Will you then bring me down to dust again?