Genesis 3:19

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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.”

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 23:4

“I am a stranger and a sojourner among you; give me property among you for a burying place, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

Genesis 3:18

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

Genesis 5:5

Thus 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; the Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.”

Job 10:9

Remember that thou hast made me of clay; and wilt thou turn me to dust again?

Job 19:26

and after my skin has been thus destroyed, then from 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 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 the moth.

Psalm 103:14

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

Psalm 104:23

Man goes forth to his work and to his labor until the evening.

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 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 to his beloved sleep.

Psalm 22:15

my strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaves to my jaws; thou dost lay me in the dust of death.

Psalm 22:29

Yea, to him shall all the proud of the earth bow down; before him shall bow all who go down to the dust, and he who cannot keep himself alive.

Psalm 90:3

Thou turnest man back to the dust, and sayest, “Turn back, 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 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 the sons of men to be busy with.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit 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 he came from his mother's womb he shall go again, naked as he came, and shall take nothing for his toil, 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, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

1 Corinthians 15:47

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

Ephesians 4:28

Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his hands, so that he may be able to give to those in need.

1 Thessalonians 2:9

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

2 Thessalonians 3:10

For even when we were with you, we gave you this command: If any one will not work, let him not eat.

Hebrews 9:27

And just as it is appointed for men to die once, and after that comes judgment,