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

Ecclesiastes 12:7

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

Job 34:15

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

Psalm 104:29

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

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.

Psalm 90:3

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

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.

Ecclesiastes 3:20

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

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,

Daniel 12:2

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

Ecclesiastes 1:3

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

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.

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.”

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.”

Psalm 103:14

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

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.

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.

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!

Proverbs 21:16

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

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.

Job 21:26

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

Job 19:26

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

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.”

1 Corinthians 15:47

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

Hebrews 9:27

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

Genesis 3:18

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

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 104:23

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

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.

Genesis 5:5

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

Job 10:9

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