Genesis 3:19

New Living Translation

By the sweat of your brow will you have food to eat until you return to the ground from which you were made. For you were made from dust, and to dust you will return.”

Cross References

Genesis 18:27

Then Abraham spoke again. “Since I have begun, let me speak further to my Lord, even though I am but dust and ashes.

Genesis 2:7

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

Genesis 23:4

“Here I am, a stranger and a foreigner among you. Please sell me a piece of land so I can give my wife a proper burial.”

Genesis 3:18

It will grow thorns and thistles for you, though you will eat of its grains.

Genesis 5:5

Adam lived 930 years, and then he died.

Job 1:21

He said, “I came naked from my mother’s womb, and I will be naked when I leave. The Lord gave me what I had, and the Lord has taken it away. Praise the name of the Lord!”

Job 10:9

Remember that you made me from dust— will you turn me back to dust so soon?

Job 19:26

And after my body has decayed, yet in my body I will see God!

Job 21:26

But both are buried in the same dust, both eaten by the same maggots.

Job 34:15

all life would cease, and humanity would turn again to dust.

Job 4:19

how much less will he trust people made of clay! They are made of dust, crushed as easily as a moth.

Psalm 103:14

For he knows how weak we are; he remembers we are only dust.

Psalm 104:23

Then people go off to their work, where they labor until evening.

Psalm 104:29

But if you turn away from them, they panic. When you take away their breath, they die and turn again to dust.

Psalm 127:2

It is useless for you to work so hard from early morning until late at night, anxiously working for food to eat; for God gives rest to his loved ones.

Psalm 22:15

My strength has dried up like sunbaked clay. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have laid me in the dust and left me for dead.

Psalm 22:29

Let the rich of the earth feast and worship. Bow before him, all who are mortal, all whose lives will end as dust.

Psalm 90:3

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

Proverbs 21:16

The person who strays from common sense will end up in the company of the dead.

Ecclesiastes 1:13

I devoted myself to search for understanding and to explore by wisdom everything being done under heaven. I soon discovered that God has dealt a tragic existence to the human race.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What do people get for all their hard work under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 12:7

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

Ecclesiastes 3:20

Both go to the same place—they came from dust and they return to dust.

Ecclesiastes 5:15

We all come to the end of our lives as naked and empty-handed as on the day we were born. We can’t take our riches with us.

Daniel 12:2

Many of those whose bodies lie dead and buried will rise up, some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting disgrace.

1 Corinthians 15:47

Adam, the first man, was made from the dust of the earth, while Christ, the second man, came from heaven.

Ephesians 4:28

If you are a thief, quit stealing. Instead, use your hands for good hard work, and then give generously to others in need.

1 Thessalonians 2:9

Don’t you remember, dear brothers and sisters, how hard we worked among you? Night and day we toiled to earn a living so that we would not be a burden to any of you as we preached God’s Good News to you.

2 Thessalonians 3:10

Even while we were with you, we gave you this command: “Those unwilling to work will not get to eat.”

Hebrews 9:27

And just as each person is destined to die once and after that comes judgment,