Genesis 3:19

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Summary

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

In

For dust

Genesis 2:7

Genesis 18:27

And

General references

Bible References

In

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

Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.

For you remember, brothers, our labor and toil: we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.

For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.

For dust

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

Abraham answered and said, "Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes.

And

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

If I hope for Sheol as my house, if I make my bed in darkness,

And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God,

They lie down alike in the dust, and the worms cover them.

all flesh would perish together, and man would return to dust.

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

When you hide your face, they are dismayed; when you take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.

One who wanders from the way of good sense will rest in the assembly of the dead.

All go to one place. All are from the dust, and to dust all return.

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

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.

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

For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead.

General references

After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah east of Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan

all flesh would perish together, and man would return to dust.

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

I have seen the business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with.