Genesis 3:19
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground— because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.””
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“By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground— because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“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.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“by the sweat of thy face thou dost eat bread till thy return unto the ground, for out of it hast thou been taken, for dust thou <FI>art<Fi> , and unto dust thou turnest back.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Genesis 3:19 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 2:7Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
- Genesis 5:5So Adam lived a total of 930 years, and then he died.
- Genesis 18:27Then Abraham answered, “Now that I have ventured to speak to the Lord—though I am but dust and ashes—
- Genesis 23:4“I am a foreigner and an outsider among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.”
- Job 1:21saying: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.”
- Job 10:9Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?
- Job 17:13If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
- Job 19:26Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God.
- Job 21:26But together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover them both.
- Job 34:15all flesh would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.
- Psalms 22:15My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You lay me in the dust of death.
- Psalms 22:29All the rich of the earth will feast and worship; all who go down to the dust will kneel before Him— even those unable to preserve their lives.
- Psalms 90:3You return man to dust, saying, “Return, O sons of mortals.”
- Psalms 103:14For He knows our frame; He is mindful that we are dust.
- Psalms 104:29When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.
- Proverbs 21:16The man who strays from the path of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead.
- Ecclesiastes 1:3What does a man gain from all his labor, at which he toils under the sun?
- Ecclesiastes 1:13And I set my mind to seek and explore by wisdom all that is done under heaven. What a heavy burden God has laid upon the sons of men to occupy them!
- Ecclesiastes 3:20All go to one place; all come from dust, and all return to dust.
- Ecclesiastes 5:15As a man came from his mother’s womb, so he will depart again, naked as he arrived. He takes nothing for his labor to carry in his hands.
- Ecclesiastes 12:7before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
- Daniel 12:2And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.
- Romans 5:12Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.
- 1 Corinthians 15:21For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man.
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