Genesis 3:19
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19 By the sweat of your face
you shall eat bread
until you return to the ground,
for out of it you were taken;
you are dust,
and to dust you shall return.”(A)
Ecclesiastes 12:7
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7 and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the breath[a] returns to God who gave it.(A)
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- 12.7 Or the spirit
Job 34:15
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15 all flesh would perish together,
and all mortals return to dust.(A)
Psalm 104:29
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29 When you hide your face, they are dismayed;
when you take away their breath, they die
and return to their dust.(A)
Psalm 90:3
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- 90.3 Heb humankind
Genesis 2:7
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7 then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground[a] and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.(A)
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- 2.7 In Heb the word for ground resembles the word for man
Ephesians 4:28
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28 Those who steal must give up stealing; rather, let them labor, doing good work with their own hands, so as to have something to share with the needy.
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1 Corinthians 15:21-22
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21 For since death came through a human, the resurrection of the dead has also come through a human,(A) 22 for as all die in Adam, so all will be made alive in Christ.
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Ecclesiastes 3:20
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20 All go to one place, all are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.(A)
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Genesis 18:27
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27 Abraham answered, “Let me take it upon myself to speak to my lord, I who am but dust and ashes.(A)
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Daniel 12:2
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2 Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth[a] shall awake, some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt.(A)
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- 12.2 Or the land of dust
Ecclesiastes 1:3
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3 What do people gain from all the toil
at which they toil under the sun?(A)
Psalm 22:15
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15 my mouth[a] is dried up like a potsherd,
and my tongue sticks to my jaws;
you lay me in the dust of death.(A)
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- 22.15 Cn: Heb strength
Genesis 23:4
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4 “I am a stranger and an alien residing among you; give me property among you for a burying place, so that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”(A)
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2 Thessalonians 3:10
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10 For even when we were with you, we gave you this command: anyone unwilling to work should not eat.
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Psalm 103:14
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14 For he knows how we were made;
he remembers that we are dust.(A)
1 Thessalonians 2:9
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9 You remember our labor and toil, brothers and sisters; we worked night and day so that we might not burden any of you while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.(A)
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Romans 5:12-21
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Adam and Christ
12 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death came through sin, and so death spread to all because all have sinned(A)— 13 for sin was indeed in the world before the law, but sin is not reckoned when there is no law. 14 Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who did not sin in the likeness of Adam, who is a pattern of the one who was to come.(B)
15 But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died through the one man’s trespass, much more surely have the grace of God and the gift in the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abounded for the many. 16 And the gift is not like the effect of the one man’s sin. For the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the gift following many trespasses brings justification. 17 If, because of the one man’s trespass, death reigned through that one, much more surely will those who receive the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ.
18 Therefore just as one man’s trespass led to condemnation for all, so one man’s act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all. 19 For just as through the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so through the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous. 20 But law came in, so that the trespass might increase, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,(C) 21 so that, just as sin reigned in death, so grace might also reign through justification leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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Ecclesiastes 5:15
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15 As they came from their mother’s womb, so they shall go again, naked as they came; they shall take nothing for their toil that they may carry away with their hands.(A)
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Ecclesiastes 1:13
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13 I applied my mind to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven; it is an unhappy business that God has given to humans to be busy with.(A)
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Proverbs 21:16
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16 Whoever wanders from the way of understanding
will rest in the assembly of the dead.(A)
Psalm 22:29
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29 To him,[a] indeed, shall all who sleep in[b] the earth bow down;
before him shall bow all who go down to the dust,
and I shall live for him.[c](A)
Job 21:26
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26 They lie down alike in the dust,
and the worms cover them.(A)
Job 19:26
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26 and after my skin has been destroyed,
then in my flesh I shall see God,(A)
Job 17:13-16
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13 If I look for Sheol as my house,
if I spread my couch in darkness,(A)
14 if I say to the Pit, ‘You are my father,’
and to the worm, ‘My mother’ or ‘My sister,’(B)
15 where then is my hope?
Who will see my hope?(C)
16 Will it go down to the bars of Sheol?
Shall we descend together into the dust?”(D)
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