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 advantage is to man by all his labour that he laboureth at under the sun?
Ephesians 4:28
whoso is stealing let him no more steal, but rather let him labour, working the thing that is good with the hands, that he may have to impart to him having need.
1 Thessalonians 2:9
for ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail, for, night and day working not to be a burden upon any of you, we did preach to you the good news of God;
2 Thessalonians 3:10
for even when we were with you, this we did command you, that if any one is not willing to work, neither let him eat,

For dust

Genesis 2:7
And Jehovah God formeth the man -- dust from the ground, and breatheth into his nostrils breath of life, and the man becometh a living creature.
Genesis 18:27
And Abraham answereth and saith, 'Lo, I pray thee, I have willed to speak unto the Lord, and I -- dust and ashes;

And

Genesis 23:4
A sojourner and a settler I am with you; give to me a possession of a burying-place with you, and I bury my dead from before me.'
Job 17:13
If I wait -- Sheol is my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch.
Job 19:26
And after my skin hath compassed this body, Then from my flesh I see God:
Job 21:26
Together -- on the dust they lie down, And the worm doth cover them over.
Job 34:15
Expire doth all flesh together, And man to dust returneth.
Psalm 22:15
Dried up as an earthen vessel is my power, And my tongue is cleaving to my jaws.
Psalm 104:29
Thou hidest Thy face -- they are troubled, Thou gatherest their spirit -- they expire, And unto their dust they turn back.
Proverbs 21:16
A man who is wandering from the way of understanding, In an assembly of Rephaim resteth.
Ecclesiastes 3:20
The whole are going unto one place, the whole have been from the dust, and the whole are turning back unto the dust.
Ecclesiastes 12:7
And the dust returneth to the earth as it was, And the spirit returneth to God who gave it.
Daniel 12:2
And the multitude of those sleeping in the dust of the ground do awake, some to life age-during, and some to reproaches -- to abhorrence age-during.
Romans 5:12
because of this, even as through one man the sin did enter into the world, and through the sin the death; and thus to all men the death did pass through, for that all did sin;
1 Corinthians 15:21
for since through man is the death, also through man is a rising again of the dead,

General references

Genesis 23:19
And after this hath Abraham buried Sarah his wife at the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (which is Hebron), in the land of Canaan;
Job 34:15
Expire doth all flesh together, And man to dust returneth.
Psalm 104:23
Man goeth forth to his work, And to his service -- till evening.
Ecclesiastes 3:10
I have seen the travail that God hath given to the sons of man to be humbled by it.