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

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 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.”

Genesis 3:18

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

Genesis 5:5

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

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!”

Job 10:9

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

Job 19:26

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

Job 21:26

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

Job 34:15

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

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 103:14

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

Psalm 104:23

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

Psalm 104:29

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

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.

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.

Psalm 22:29

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

Psalm 90:3

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

Proverbs 21:16

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

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.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

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

Ecclesiastes 12:7

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

Ecclesiastes 3:20

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

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?

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.

1 Corinthians 15:47

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

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.

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.

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.

Hebrews 9:27

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