Topic
Dust
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By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.
Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him. — read the full passage →
All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.
As many as don’t receive you, when you depart from that city, shake off even the dust from your feet for a testimony against them.”
Whoever doesn’t receive you, nor hear your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake off the dust from your feet.
all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.
Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes.
Or hasn’t the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?
But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came to Iconium.
Yahweh God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above every animal of the field. You shall go on your belly and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
Whoever will not receive you nor hear you, as you depart from there, shake off the dust that is under your feet for a testimony against them. Assuredly, I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!”
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
You hide your face: they are troubled; you take away their breath: they die, and return to the dust.
Yahweh will make the rain of your land powder and dust. It will come down on you from the sky, until you are destroyed.
Your seed will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill, To make them sit with princes, and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them.
Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.
For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb. — read the full passage →
Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”
When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and didn’t recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky.
Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.
The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent’s food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain,” says Yahweh.
I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then your seed may also be numbered.
To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and ate from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.
God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.
I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.
They will lick the dust like a serpent. Like crawling things of the earth they shall come trembling out of their dens. They will come with fear to Yahweh our God, and will be afraid because of you.
Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the earth on his face before Yahweh’s ark until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust on their heads.
They did so; and Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and struck the dust of the earth, and there were lice on man, and on animal; all the dust of the earth became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.
This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
‘Even the dust from your city that clings to us, we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this, that the Kingdom of God has come near to you.’
How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,
For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.
Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
“Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you. Before you came out of the womb, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers,idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
For everything spoken by God is possible.”
These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.
It shall become small dust over all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boil breaking out with boils on man and on animal, throughout all the land of Egypt.”
Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your rod, and strike the dust of the earth, that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt.’”
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
They cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning, saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, in which all who had their ships in the sea were made rich by reason of her great wealth!’ For in one hour is she made desolate.
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. He who overcomes won’t be harmed by the second death.
casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →
In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.
Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.
Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →
No one has ascended into heaven, but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.
“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged. — read the full passage →
The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground, they keep silence; They have cast up dust on their heads; they have clothed themselves with sackcloth: The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
Now Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, — read the full passage →
Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
Your dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.
He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.”
As they cried out, and threw off their cloaks, and threw dust into the air,
There is salvation in none other, for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”
I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me, and loved them, even as you loved me.
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
Awake, awake, put on your strength, Zion; put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean. — read the full passage →
Kings shall be your nursing fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers: they shall bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet; and you shall know that I am Yahweh; and those who wait for me shall not be disappointed.”
Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t one fashion us in the womb?
Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be.”
if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.
“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.
For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
All the rich ones of the earth shall eat and worship. All those who go down to the dust shall bow before him, even he who can’t keep his soul alive.
Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?
“You shall not murder.
Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky.
This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →
But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope.
For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; — read the full passage →
For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God, except God’s Spirit.
For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance, but whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he has.
Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.
He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy from the ash heap;
“‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me. — read the full passage →
I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burnt it with fire, and crushed it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust. I threw its dust into the brook that descended out of the mountain.
I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them. — read the full passage →
for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;
Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;
Those who dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him. His enemies shall lick the dust.
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