What Does the Bible Say About We Go Back To Dust?

Genesis 3:19 ESV / 12 helpful votes

By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

Ecclesiastes 3:20 ESV / 10 helpful votes

All go to one place. All are from the dust, and to dust all return.

Ecclesiastes 12:7 ESV / 9 helpful votes

And the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Psalm 104:29 ESV / 9 helpful votes

When you hide your face, they are dismayed; when you take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.

Psalm 146:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

When his breath departs, he returns to the earth; on that very day his plans perish.

Psalm 90:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

You return man to dust and say, “Return, O children of man!”

Job 34:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

All flesh would perish together, and man would return to dust.

Job 34:14-15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

If he should set his heart to it and gather to himself his spirit and his breath, all flesh would perish together, and man would return to dust.

Job 17:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?”

Job 10:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Remember that you have made me like clay; and will you return me to the dust?

10 Bible Verses about We Go Back To Dust

Genesis 3:19 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 3:20 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 12:7 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Psalm 104:29 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Psalm 146:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Psalm 90:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Job 34:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Job 34:14-15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Job 17:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Job 10:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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10 Bible Verses about We Go Back To Dust

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Genesis 3:19 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 3:20 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 12:7 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Psalm 104:29 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Psalm 146:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Psalm 90:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Job 34:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Job 34:14-15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Job 17:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Job 10:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes