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
For what else hath a man, of all the labor that he taketh under the Sun?
Ephesians 4:28
Let him that stole, steal no more; but let him rather labour with his hands some good thing, that he may have to give unto him that needeth.
1 Thessalonians 2:9
Ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail. For we laboured day and night, because we would not be grievous unto any of you, and preached unto you the gospel of God.
2 Thessalonians 3:10
For when we were with you, this we warned you of, that if there were any which would not work, that the same should not eat.

For dust

Genesis 2:7
Then the LORD God shope man, even of the mold of the earth, and breathed into his face the breath of life. So man was made a living soul.
Genesis 18:27
And Abraham answered and said, "Behold, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD, and yet am but dust and ashes.

And

Genesis 23:4
"I am a stranger and a foreigner among you; give me a possession to bury in with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight."
Job 17:13
Though I tarry never so much, yet the grave is my house, and I must make my bed in the dark.
Job 19:26
that I shall be clothed again with this skin, and see God in my flesh.
Job 21:26
Now sleep they both alike in the earth, and the worms cover them.
Job 34:15
All flesh shall come together unto naught, and all men shall turn again unto earth.
Psalm 22:15
My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaveth to my gums, and thou shalt bring me into the dust of death.
Psalm 104:29
But when thou hidest thy face, they are troubled; when thou takest away their breath, they die, and are turned again to their dust.
Proverbs 21:16
The man that wandereth out of the way of wisdom, shall remain in the congregation of the dead.
Ecclesiastes 3:20
They go all unto one place, for as they be all of dust, so shall they all turn unto dust again.
Ecclesiastes 12:7
Or dust be turned again unto earth from whence it came, and or the spirit return unto God, which gave it.
Daniel 12:2
Many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth, shall awake, some to everlasting life, some to perpetual shame and reproof.
Romans 5:12
Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by the means of sin; And so death went over all men, insomuch that all men sinned.
1 Corinthians 15:21
For by a man came death, and by a man came resurrection of the dead.

General references

Genesis 23:19
And then Abraham buried Sara his wife in the double cave of the field that lieth before Mamre, otherwise called Hebron in the land of Canaan.
Job 34:15
All flesh shall come together unto naught, and all men shall turn again unto earth.
Psalm 104:23
Then goeth forth man to his work, and to till his land until the evening.
Ecclesiastes 3:10
For as touching the travail and carefulness which God hath given unto men, I see that he hath given it them, to be exercised in it.