Genesis 3:19
By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return."
Psalm 104:29
When you ignore them, they panic. When you take away their life's breath, they die and return to dust.
Genesis 2:7
The Lord God formed the man from the soil of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
Ecclesiastes 12:7
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the life's breath returns to God who gave it.
Job 34:15
all flesh would perish together and human beings would return to dust.
Psalm 90:3
You make mankind return to the dust, and say, "Return, O people!"
Ecclesiastes 3:20
Both go to the same place, both come from the dust, and to dust both return.
2 Thessalonians 3:10
For even when we were with you, we used to give you this command: "If anyone is not willing to work, neither should he eat."
Genesis 18:27
Then Abraham asked, "Since I have undertaken to speak to the Lord (although I am but dust and ashes),
Genesis 23:4
"I am a temporary settler among you. Grant me ownership of a burial site among you so that I may bury my dead."
Job 1:21
He said, "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I will return there. The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away. May the name of the Lord be blessed!"
Job 17:13-16
If I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
Job 19:26
And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God,
Job 21:26
Together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover over them both.
Psalm 22:15
The roof of my mouth is as dry as a piece of pottery; my tongue sticks to my gums. You set me in the dust of death.
Psalm 22:29
All of the thriving people of the earth will join the celebration and worship; all those who are descending into the grave will bow before him, including those who cannot preserve their lives.
Psalm 103:14
For he knows what we are made of; he realizes we are made of clay.
Proverbs 21:16
The one who wanders from the way of wisdom will end up in the company of the departed.
Ecclesiastes 1:3
What benefit do people get from all the effort which they expend on earth?
Ecclesiastes 1:13
I decided to carefully and thoroughly examine all that has been accomplished on earth. I concluded: God has given people a burdensome task that keeps them occupied.
Ecclesiastes 5:15
Just as he came forth from his mother's womb, naked will he return as he came, and he will take nothing in his hand that he may carry away from his toil.
Daniel 12:2
Many of those who sleep in the dusty ground will awake -- some to everlasting life, and others to shame and everlasting abhorrence.
Romans 5:12-21
So then, just as sin entered the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all people because all sinned --
1 Corinthians 15:21-22
For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead also came through a man.
Ephesians 4:28
The one who steals must steal no longer; rather he must labor, doing good with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with the one who has need.
1 Thessalonians 2:9
For you recall, brothers and sisters, our toil and drudgery: By working night and day so as not to impose a burden on any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.