Genesis 3:19

New King James Version

In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread Till you return to the ground, For out of it you were taken; For dust you are, And to dust you shall return.”

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 12:7

Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, And the spirit will return to God who gave it.

Job 34:15

All flesh would perish together, And man would return to dust.

Psalm 104:29

You hide Your face, they are troubled; You take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.

Genesis 2:7

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

Psalm 90:3

You turn man to destruction, And say, “Return, O children of men.”

Ephesians 4:28

Let him who stole steal no longer, but rather let him labor, working with his hands what is good, that he may have something to give him who has need.

Ecclesiastes 3:20

All go to one place: all are from the dust, and all return to dust.

Genesis 18:27

Then Abraham answered and said, “Indeed now, I who am but dust and ashes have taken it upon myself to speak to the Lord:

Daniel 12:2

And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, Some to everlasting life, Some to shame and everlasting contempt.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What profit has a man from all his labor In which he toils under the sun?

Psalm 22:15

My strength is dried up like a potsherd, And My tongue clings to My jaws; You have brought Me to the dust of death.

Genesis 23:4

“I am a foreigner and a visitor among you. Give me property for a burial place among you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

2 Thessalonians 3:10

For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat.

Psalm 103:14

For He knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust.

1 Thessalonians 2:9

For you remember, brethren, our labor and toil; for laboring night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.

Ecclesiastes 5:15

As he came from his mother’s womb, naked shall he return, To go as he came; And he shall take nothing from his labor Which he may carry away in his hand.

Ecclesiastes 1:13

And I set my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven; this burdensome task God has given to the sons of man, by which they may be exercised.

Proverbs 21:16

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

Psalm 22:29

All the prosperous of the earth Shall eat and worship; All those who go down to the dust Shall bow before Him, Even he who cannot keep himself alive.

Job 21:26

They lie down alike in the dust, And worms cover them.

Job 19:26

And after my skin is destroyed, this I know, That in my flesh I shall see God,

Job 1:21

And he said: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, And naked shall I return 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 of the earth, made of dust; the second Man is the Lord from heaven.

Hebrews 9:27

And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment,

Genesis 3:18

Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, And you shall eat the herb of the field.

Job 4:19

How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before a moth?

Psalm 104:23

Man goes out to his work And to his labor until the evening.

Psalm 127:2

It is vain for you to rise up early, To sit up late, To eat the bread of sorrows; For so He gives His beloved sleep.

Genesis 5:5

So all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years; and he died.

Job 10:9

Remember, I pray, that You have made me like clay. And will You turn me into dust again?