Gen 3:19
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.
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Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.
Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
And 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. {of the dust...: Heb. dust of the ground}
Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
Let 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. {to give: or, to distribute}
For since by man {came} death, by man {came} also the resurrection of the dead.
All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which {am but} dust and ashes:
What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
I {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.
And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame {and} everlasting contempt.
For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we {are} dust.
They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
Wherefore, 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: {for that: or, in whom}
And 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.
All {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.
For 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.
And 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. {to be...: or, to afflict them}
If I wait, the grave {is} mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.
As 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.
And {though} after my skin {worms} destroy this {body}, yet in my flesh shall I see God: {And...: or, After I shall awake, though this body be destroyed, yet out of my flesh}
For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. {thou shalt surely...: Heb. dying thou shalt die}
And 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. {of the dust...: Heb. dust of the ground}
Wherefore, 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: {for that: or, in whom}
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
And 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.
For the wages of sin {is} death; but the gift of God {is} eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we {are} dust.
Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.
His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
And 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. {to be...: or, to afflict them}
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.
The first man {is} of the earth, earthy: the second man {is} the Lord from heaven.
How much less {in} them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation {is} in the dust, {which} are crushed before the moth?
And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which {am but} dust and ashes:
For we know that if our earthly house of {this} tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain {persons is} void of understanding.
So also {is} the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people, {being} old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
I {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.
And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same {is} Hebron in the land of Canaan.
For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy {shalt} thou {be}, and {it shall be} well with thee.
Behold, I {am} according to thy wish in God's stead: I also am formed out of the clay. {wish: Heb. mouth} {formed: Heb. cut}
Thus saith the Lord GOD; The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened.
For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption: {after...: or, after he had in his own age served the will of God}
For I know {that} thou wilt bring me {to} death, and {to} the house appointed for all living.
For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.) {by one man's...: or, by one offence}
The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as {there are} innumerable before him.
And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at even, which {was} also of mount Ephraim; and he sojourned in Gibeah: but the men of the place {were} Benjamites.
And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.
And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt:
My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been {dead} four days.