Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

Bible References

In

Ecclesiastes 1:3
What the profit to a man in all the labor he will labor under the sun?
Ephesians 4:28
He stealing let him steal no more: and rather let him be wearied from fatigue, working good with the hands, that he have to impart to him having need.
1 Thessalonians 2:9
For ye remember, brethren, our fatigue and toil: for also working night and day, not to overload any of you, we proclaimed to you the good news of God.
2 Thessalonians 3:10
For also when we were with you, this we proclaimed to you, that if any will not work, neither should he eat.

For dust

Genesis 2:7
And Jehovah God will form man of the dust from the earth, and will blow into his nostrils the breath of lives, and man shall be for a living soul.
Genesis 18:27
And Abraham will answer and say, Behold now, I have undertaken to speak to my Lord, and I dust and ashes.

And

Genesis 23:4
I am a sojourner and stranger with you: give me the possession of a grave with you, and I will bury my dead from my face.
Job 17:13
If I shall wait, hades is my house: in darkness I spread my bed.
Job 19:26
And after they destroyed my skin, this, and from my flesh I shall see God:
Job 21:26
They will lie down together upon the dust, and the worm shall cover over them.
Job 34:15
All flesh shall expire together, and man shall turn back to dust
Psalm 22:15
My strength was dried up as the potsherd, and my tongue cleaving to my jaws; and thou wilt set me for the dust of death.
Psalm 104:29
Thou wilt hide thy face, they will tremble: thou wilt take away their spirit, they shall expire and turn back to dust
Proverbs 21:16
A man wandering from the way of understanding shall rest in the convocation of the shades.
Ecclesiastes 3:20
All go to one place; all were from dust, and all turned back to dust.
Ecclesiastes 12:7
And the dust shall turn back to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall turn back to God who gave it.
Daniel 12:2
And many sleeping in the earth of dust shall awake, these to eternal life, and these to reproach and eternal abhorrence.
Romans 5:12
Therefore, as by one man sin came into the world, and by sin death; and so death passed upon all men, in that all have sinned:
1 Corinthians 15:21
For since by man death, also by man the rising up of the dead.

General references

Genesis 23:19
And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah, before the face of Mamra: this is Hebron in the land of Canaan.
Job 34:15
All flesh shall expire together, and man shall turn back to dust
Psalm 104:23
Man will go forth to his work, and to his labor even to evening.
Ecclesiastes 3:10
I saw the labor which God gave to the sons of man to be humbled in it