Ecclesiastes 12:7

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

Cross References

Genesis 18:27

Abraham answered, “Behold, I have taken upon myself to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes.

Genesis 2:7

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

Genesis 3:19

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

Job 20:11

His bones are full of youthful vigor, but it will lie down with him in the dust.

Job 7:21

Why dost thou not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie in the earth; thou wilt seek me, but I shall not be.”

Psalm 103:14

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

Psalm 104:29

When thou hidest thy face, they are dismayed; when thou takest away their breath, they die and return to their dust.

Psalm 146:4

When his breath departs he returns to his earth; on that very day his plans perish.

Psalm 31:6

Thou hatest those who pay regard to vain idols; but I trust in the Lord.

Psalm 90:3

Thou turnest man back to the dust, and sayest, “Turn back, O children of men!”

Isaiah 57:16

For I will not contend for ever, nor will I always be angry; for from me proceeds the spirit, and I have made the breath of life.

Jeremiah 38:16

Then King Zedekiah swore secretly to Jeremiah, “As the Lord lives, who made our souls, I will not put you to death or deliver you into the hand of these men who seek your life.”

Daniel 12:2

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

Zechariah 12:1

An Oracle The word of the Lord concerning Israel: Thus says the Lord, who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the spirit of man within him:

Numbers 16:22

And they fell on their faces, and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be angry with all the congregation?”

Numbers 27:16

“Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation,

Luke 23:46

Then Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit!” And having said this he breathed his last.

Acts 7:59

And as they were stoning Stephen, he prayed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”

Hebrews 12:23

and to the assembly of the first-born who are enrolled in heaven, and to a judge who is God of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,

Hebrews 12:9

Besides this, we have had earthly fathers to discipline us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?