Genesis 3:19

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

Cross References

Genesis 18:27

Abraham answered, “Let me take it upon myself to speak to my lord, I who am but dust and ashes.

Genesis 2:7

then the Lord God formed 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 stranger and an alien residing among you; give me property among you for a burying place, so that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

Genesis 3:18

thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field.

Genesis 5:5

Thus all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred thirty years, and he died.

Job 1:21

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 that you fashioned me like clay, and will you turn me to dust again?

Job 19:26

and after my skin has been destroyed, then in my flesh I shall see God,

Job 21:26

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

Job 34:15

all flesh would perish together, and all mortals return to dust.

Job 4:19

how much more those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth.

Psalm 103:14

For he knows how we were made; he remembers that we are dust.

Psalm 104:23

People go out to their work and to their labor until the evening.

Psalm 104:29

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

Psalm 127:2

It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil, for he gives sleep to his beloved.

Psalm 22:15

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

Psalm 22:29

To him, indeed, shall all who sleep in the earth bow down; before him shall bow all who go down to the dust, and I shall live for him.

Psalm 90:3

You turn us back to dust and say, “Turn back, you mortals.”

Proverbs 21:16

Whoever wanders from the way of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead.

Ecclesiastes 1:13

I applied my mind to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven; it is an unhappy business that God has given to humans to be busy with.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

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

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the breath returns to God who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 3:20

All go to one place, all are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

Ecclesiastes 5:15

As they came from their mother’s womb, so they shall go again, naked as they came; they shall take nothing for their toil that they may carry away with their hands.

Daniel 12:2

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

1 Corinthians 15:47

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

Ephesians 4:28

Those who steal must give up stealing; rather, let them labor, doing good work with their own hands, so as to have something to share with the needy.

1 Thessalonians 2:9

You remember our labor and toil, brothers and sisters; we worked night and day so that we might not burden any of you while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.

2 Thessalonians 3:10

For even when we were with you, we gave you this command: anyone unwilling to work should not eat.

Hebrews 9:27

And just as it is appointed for mortals to die once and after that the judgment,