Genesis 3:19

New American Standard Bible 2020

By the sweat of your face You shall eat bread, Until you return to the ground, Because from it you were taken; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return.”

Cross References

Genesis 18:27

And Abraham replied, “Now behold, I have ventured to speak to the Lord, although I am only dust and ashes.

Genesis 2:7

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

Genesis 23:4

“I am a stranger and a foreign resident among you; give me a burial site among you so that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

Genesis 3:18

“Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; Yet you shall eat the plants of the field;

Genesis 5:5

So all the days that Adam lived were 930 years, and he died.

Job 1:21

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

Job 10:9

‘Remember that You have made me as clay; Yet would You turn me into dust again?

Job 19:26

“Even after my skin is destroyed, Yet from my flesh I will see God,

Job 21:26

“Together they lie down in the dust, And maggots cover them.

Job 34:15

Humanity would perish together, And mankind would return to dust.

Job 4:19

‘How much more those who live in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!

Psalm 103:14

For He Himself knows our form; He is mindful that we are nothing but dust.

Psalm 104:23

A person goes out to his work And to his labor until evening.

Psalm 104:29

You hide Your face, they are terrified; You take away their breath, they perish And return to their dust.

Psalm 127:2

It is futile for you to rise up early, To stay up late, To eat the bread of painful labor; This is how He gives to His beloved sleep.

Psalm 22:15

My strength is dried up like a piece of pottery, And my tongue clings to my jaws; And You lay me in the dust of death.

Psalm 22:29

All the prosperous of the earth will eat and worship, All those who go down to the dust will kneel before Him, Even he who cannot keep his soul alive.

Psalm 90:3

¶You turn mortals back into dust And say, “Return, you sons of mankind.”

Proverbs 21:16

A person who wanders from the way of understanding Will rest in the assembly of the dead.

Ecclesiastes 1:13

And I set my mind to seek and explore by wisdom about everything that has been done under heaven. It is a sorry task with which God has given the sons of mankind to be troubled.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

¶What advantage does a person have in all his work Which he does under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 12:7

then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 3:20

All go to the same place. All came from the dust and all return to the dust.

Ecclesiastes 5:15

As he came naked from his mother’s womb, so he will return as he came. He will take nothing from the fruit of his labor that he can carry in his hand.

Daniel 12:2

And many of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake, these to everlasting life, but the others to disgrace and everlasting contempt.

1 Corinthians 15:47

The first man is from the earth, earthy; the second Man is from heaven.

Ephesians 4:28

The one who steals must no longer steal; but rather he must labor, producing with his own hands what is good, so that he will have something to share with the one who has need.

1 Thessalonians 2:9

For you recall, brothers and sisters, our labor and hardship: it was by working night and day so as not to be a burden to any of you, that we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.

2 Thessalonians 3:10

For even when we were with you, we used to give you this order: if anyone is not willing to work, then he is not to eat, either.

Hebrews 9:27

And just as it is destined for people to die once, and after this comes judgment,