Genesis 3:19

God Pronounces Judgment

¹⁸ “Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you;
And you will eat the plants of the field;
¹⁹ By the sweat of your face
You will eat bread,
Till you return to the ground,
Because from it you were taken;
For you are dust,
And to dust you shall return.” ²⁰ Now the man called his wife’s name 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

You hide Your face, they are dismayed;
You take away their spirit, they expire
And return to their dust.

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.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

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

Job 34:15

All flesh would perish together,
And man would return to dust.

Psalm 90:3

You turn man back into dust
And say, “Return, O children of men.”

Ecclesiastes 3:20

All go to the same place. All came from the dust and all return to the dust.

2 Thessalonians 3:10

For even when we were with you, we used to give you this order: if anyone is not willing to work, then he is not to eat, either.

Genesis 18:27

And Abraham replied, “Now behold, I have ventured to speak to the Lord, although I am but dust and ashes.

Genesis 23:4

“I am a stranger and a sojourner among you; give me a burial site among you that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

Job 1:21

He said,
“Naked I came from my mother’s womb,
And naked I shall return there.
The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away.
Blessed be the name of the Lord.”

Job 17:13-16

“If I look for Sheol as my home,
I make my bed in the darkness;

Job 19:26

“Even after my skin is destroyed,
Yet from my flesh I shall see God;

Job 21:26

“Together they lie down in the dust,
And worms cover them.

Psalm 22:15

My strength is dried up like a potsherd,
And my tongue cleaves to my jaws;
And You lay me in the dust of death.

Psalm 22:29

All the prosperous of the earth will eat and worship,
All those who go down to the dust will bow before Him,
Even he who cannot keep his soul alive.

Psalm 103:14

For He Himself knows our frame;
He is mindful that we are but dust.

Proverbs 21:16

A man who wanders from the way of understanding
Will rest in the assembly of the dead.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What advantage does man have in all his work
Which he does under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 1:13

And I set my mind to seek and explore by wisdom concerning all that has been done under heaven. It is a grievous task which God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

Ecclesiastes 5:15

As he had come naked from his mother’s womb, so will he return as he came. He will take nothing from the fruit of his labor that he can carry in his hand.

Daniel 12:2

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake, these to everlasting life, but the others to disgrace and everlasting contempt.

Romans 5:12-21

Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned—

1 Corinthians 15:21-22

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

Ephesians 4:28

He who steals must steal no longer; but rather he must labor, performing with his own hands what is good, so that he will have something to share with one who has need.

1 Thessalonians 2:9

For you recall, brethren, our labor and hardship, how working night and day so as not to be a burden to any of you, we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.