Genesis 3:19

New International Version

By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”

Cross References

Genesis 18:27

Then Abraham spoke up again: “Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, though I am nothing but dust and ashes,

Genesis 2:7

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

Genesis 23:4

“I am a foreigner and stranger among you. Sell me some property for a burial site here so I can bury my dead.”

Genesis 3:18

It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.

Genesis 5:5

Altogether, Adam lived a total of 930 years, and then he died.

Job 1:21

and said: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will depart. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised.”

Job 10:9

Remember that you molded me like clay. Will you now turn me to dust again?

Job 19:26

And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God;

Job 21:26

Side by side they lie in the dust, and worms cover them both.

Job 34:15

all humanity would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.

Job 4:19

how much more those who live in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who are crushed more readily than a moth!

Psalm 103:14

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

Psalm 104:23

Then people go out to their work, to their labor until evening.

Psalm 104:29

When you hide your face, they are terrified; when you take away their breath, they die and return to the dust.

Psalm 127:2

In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for food to eat— for he grants sleep to those he loves.

Psalm 22:15

My mouth is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth; you lay me in the dust of death.

Psalm 22:29

All the rich of the earth will feast and worship; all who go down to the dust will kneel before him— those who cannot keep themselves alive.

Psalm 90:3

You turn people back to dust, saying, “Return to dust, you mortals.”

Proverbs 21:16

Whoever strays from the path of prudence comes to rest in the company of the dead.

Ecclesiastes 1:13

I applied my mind to study and to explore by wisdom all that is done under the heavens. What a heavy burden God has laid on mankind!

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What do people gain from all their labors at which they toil under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 3:20

All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return.

Ecclesiastes 5:15

Everyone comes naked from their mother’s womb, and as everyone comes, so they depart. They take nothing from their toil that they can carry in their hands.

Daniel 12:2

Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.

1 Corinthians 15:47

The first man was of the dust of the earth; the second man is of heaven.

Ephesians 4:28

Anyone who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing something useful with their own hands, that they may have something to share with those in need.

1 Thessalonians 2:9

Surely you remember, brothers and sisters, our toil and hardship; we worked night and day in order not to be a burden to anyone while we preached the gospel of God to you.

2 Thessalonians 3:10

For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: “The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.”

Hebrews 9:27

Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment,