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 12:7Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
• Job 34:15All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.
• Ps 104:29Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
• Gen 2:7And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
• Ps 90:3Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
• Eph 4:28Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
• Eccl 3:20All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
• 1 Cor 15:21–22For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
• Gen 18:27And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD, which am but dust and ashes:
• Gen 23:4I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
• Dan 12:2And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
• Eccl 1:3What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
• 2 Th 3:10For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
• Ps 22:15My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
• Ps 103:14For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.
• Job 21:26They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
• Rom 5:12–21Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
• 1 Th 2:9For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
• Prov 21:16The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.
• Eccl 5:15As he came forth of his mother’s womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.
• Job 17:13–16If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
• Ps 22:29All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.
• Job 19:26And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
• Job 1:21And said, Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.
• Eccl 1:13And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.

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