Genesis 3:19

Adam will labor for his food until he dies and returns to the dust from which he was made. It declares the reality of physical death as the wage of sin.

Cross-references · 25

• Eccl 12:7before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
• Job 34:15all flesh would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.
• Ps 104:29When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.
• Gen 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.
• Ps 90:3You return man to dust, saying, “Return, O sons of mortals.”
• Eph 4:28He who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing good with his own hands, that he may have something to share with the one in need.
• Eccl 3:20All go to one place; all come from dust, and all return to dust.
• 1 Cor 15:21–22For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man.
• Gen 18:27Then Abraham answered, “Now that I have ventured to speak to the Lord—though I am but dust and ashes—
• Gen 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.”
• Dan 12:2And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.
• Eccl 1:3What does a man gain from all his labor, at which he toils under the sun?
• 2 Th 3:10For even while we were with you, we gave you this command: “If anyone is unwilling to work, he shall not eat.”
• Ps 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.
• Ps 103:14For He knows our frame; He is mindful that we are dust.
• Job 21:26But together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover them both.
• Rom 5:12–21Therefore, 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 Th 2:9Surely you recall, brothers, our labor and toil. We worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to anyone while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.
• Prov 21:16The man who strays from the path of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead.
• Eccl 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.
• Job 17:13–16If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
• Ps 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.
• Job 19:26Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God.
• 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.”
• Eccl 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!

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