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
Luke 23:46
Then Jesus called out in a loud voice, "Father, into Your hands I commit My Spirit." And when He had said this, He breathed His last.

Acts 7:59
While they were stoning him, Stephen appealed, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit."

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."

Numbers 16:22
But Moses and Aaron fell facedown and said, "O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, when one man sins, will You vent Your wrath on the whole congregation?"

Numbers 27:16
"May the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation

Job 34:14
If He were to set His heart to it and withdraw His Spirit and breath,

Job 34:15
all flesh would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.

Psalm 103:14
For He knows our frame; He is mindful that we are dust.

Psalm 104:29
When You hide Your face, they panic; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.

Psalm 146:4
When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.

Ecclesiastes 3:20
All go to one place: All come from dust, and all return to dust.

Ecclesiastes 3:21
Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and the spirit of the animal descends into the earth?

Isaiah 57:16
For I will not accuse you forever, nor will I always be angry; for then the spirit of man would grow weak before Me, with the breath of those I have made.

Zechariah 12:1
An oracle of the word of the LORD concerning Israel. Thus declares the LORD, who stretches out the heavens and lays the foundation of the earth, who forms the spirit of man within him:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

dust

Ecclesiastes 3:20
All go to one place: All come from dust, and all return to dust.

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 18:27
Then Abraham answered, "Now that I have ventured to speak to the Lord--though I am but dust and ashes--

Job 4:19, 20
how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth! . . .

Job 7:21
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, but I will be no more."

Job 20:11
The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie down with him in the dust.

Job 34:14, 15
If He were to set His heart to it and withdraw His Spirit and breath, . . .

Psalm 90:3
You return man to dust and say, "Return, O sons of mortals."

Psalm 146:4
When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.

Daniel 12:2
And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.

the spirit

Ecclesiastes 3:21
Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and the spirit of the animal descends into the earth?

God

Genesis 2:7
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.

Numbers 16:22
But Moses and Aaron fell facedown and said, "O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, when one man sins, will You vent Your wrath on the whole congregation?"

Numbers 27:16
"May the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation

Isaiah 57:16
For I will not accuse you forever, nor will I always be angry; for then the spirit of man would grow weak before Me, with the breath of those I have made.

Jeremiah 38:16
But King Zedekiah swore to Jeremiah secretly, "As surely as the LORD lives, who has given us this life, I will not kill you or hand you over to these men who are seeking your life."

Zechariah 12:1
An oracle of the word of the LORD concerning Israel. Thus declares the LORD, who stretches out the heavens and lays the foundation of the earth, who forms the spirit of man within him:

Hebrews 12:9, 23
Furthermore, we have all had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. Should we not much more submit to the Father of our spirits and live? . . .

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