Cross references

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your brow

you will eat your bread,

until you return to the ground—

because out of it were you taken.

For dust you are,

and to dust you shall return.”

Genesis 3:19 BSB

Genesis 3:19 has 25 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 14 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Ecclesiastes 12:7 (26 votes) and Job 34:15 (18 votes). 60 other verses point back to it. It links with 19 other books, from Genesis 2 to James 1.

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Which verses does Genesis 3:19 point to?

The 20 strongest of 25, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

  2. Job 34:1518 votes

    all flesh would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.

  3. Psalm 104:2914 votes

    When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.

  4. Genesis 2:713 votes

    Then 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.

  5. Psalm 90:310 votes

    You return man to dust, saying, “Return, O sons of mortals.”

  6. He 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.

  7. All go to one place; all come from dust, and all return to dust.

  8. For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.

  9. Then Abraham answered, “Now that I have ventured to speak to the Lord—though I am but dust and ashes—

  10. “I am a foreigner and an outsider among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.”

  11. Job 21:263 votes
  12. Job 1:212 votes
  13. Job 19:262 votes

Which verses point to Genesis 3:19?

The 10 strongest of 60.