Ecclesiastes 12:7

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

Cross References (18)

  • Daniel 12:2 (25)

    And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting co

  • Ecclesiastes 3:20–21 (21)

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

  • Psalms 146:4 (19)

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

  • Genesis 3:19 (16)

    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

  • Job 34:14–15 (15)

    If He were to set His heart to it and withdraw His Spirit and breath,

  • Zechariah 12:1 (13)

    This is the burden of the word of the LORD concerning Israel. Thus declares the LORD, who stretches out the heavens and

  • Isaiah 57:16 (13)

    For I will not accuse you forever, nor will I always be angry; for then the spirit of man would grow weak before Me—the

  • Genesis 2:7 (12)

    Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man

  • Numbers 16:22 (10)

    But Moses and Aaron fell facedown and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, when one man sins, will You be

  • Job 20:11 (9)

    The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie down with him in the dust.

  • Numbers 27:16 (8)

    “May the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation

  • Jeremiah 38:16 (7)

    But King Zedekiah swore secretly to Jeremiah, “As surely as the LORD lives, who has given us this life, I will not kill

  • Hebrews 12:9 (6)

    Furthermore, we have all had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. Should we not much more submit t

  • Psalms 90:3 (6)

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

  • Genesis 18:27 (6)

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

  • Job 4:19–20 (6)

    how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!

  • Hebrews 12:23 (5)

    in joyful assembly, to the congregation of the firstborn, enrolled in heaven. You have come to God the Judge of all, to

  • Job 7:21 (5)

    Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me