Genesis 3:19

God Pronounces Judgment

¹⁸ It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
and you will eat the plants of the field.
¹⁹ You will eat bread by the sweat of your brow
until you return to the ground,
since you were taken from it.
For you are dust,
and you will return to dust.” ²⁰ Adam named his wife Eve because she was the mother of all the living.

Return to Dust

Sweat of Your Face

To Dust You Shall Return

Work of Your Hands

Psalm 104:29

When You hide Your face,
they are terrified;
when You take away their breath,
they die and return to the dust.

Genesis 2:7

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

Ecclesiastes 12:7

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

Job 34:15

every living thing would perish together
and mankind would return to the dust.

Psalm 90:3

You return mankind to the dust,
saying, “Return, descendants of Adam.”

Ecclesiastes 3:20

All are going to the same place; all come from dust, and all return to dust.

2 Thessalonians 3:10

In fact, when we were with you, this is what we commanded you: “If anyone isn’t willing to work, he should not eat.”

Genesis 18:27

Then Abraham answered, “Since I have ventured to speak to the Lord—even though I am dust and ashes—

Genesis 23:4

“I am a foreign resident among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.”

Job 1:21

saying:

Naked I came from my mother’s womb,
and naked I will leave this life.
The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away.
Praise the name of Yahweh.

Job 17:13-16

If I await Sheol as my home,
spread out my bed in darkness,

Job 19:26

Even after my skin has been destroyed,
yet I will see God in my flesh.

Job 21:26

But they both lie in the dust,
and worms cover them.

Psalm 22:15

My strength is dried up like baked clay;
my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth.
You put me into the dust of death.

Psalm 22:29

All who prosper on earth will eat and bow down;
all those who go down to the dust
will kneel before Him—
even the one who cannot preserve his life.

Psalm 103:14

For He knows what we are made of,
remembering that we are dust.

Proverbs 21:16

The man who strays from the way of wisdom
will come to rest
in the assembly of the departed spirits.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What does a man gain for all his efforts
that he labors at under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 1:13

I applied my mind to seek and explore through wisdom all that is done under heaven. God has given people this miserable task to keep them occupied.

Ecclesiastes 5:15

As he came from his mother’s womb, so he will go again, naked as he came; he will take nothing for his efforts that he can carry in his hands.

Daniel 12:2

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

Romans 5:12-21

Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, in this way death spread to all men, because all sinned.

1 Corinthians 15:21-22

For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead also comes through a man.

Ephesians 4:28

The thief must no longer steal. Instead, he must do honest work with his own hands, so that he has something to share with anyone in need.

1 Thessalonians 2:9

For you remember our labor and hardship, brothers. Working night and day so that we would not burden any of you, we preached God’s gospel to you.