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

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:

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.

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.”

Genesis 3:18

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

Genesis 5:5

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

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.”

Job 10:9

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

Job 19:26

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

Job 21:26

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

Job 34:15

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

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 103:14

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

Psalm 104:23

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

Psalm 104:29

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

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.

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.

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.

Psalm 90:3

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

Proverbs 21:16

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

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.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What profit has a man from all his labor In which he toils 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 one place: all are from the dust, and all return to dust.

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.

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.

1 Corinthians 15:47

The first man was of the earth, made of dust; the second Man is the Lord from heaven.

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.

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.

2 Thessalonians 3:10

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

Hebrews 9:27

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