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Ecclesiastes 12:7

The 2026 edition cites 1 passage containing Ecclesiastes 12:7, each printed here in the KJV with every place in the Constitution that cites it.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

⁷ Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

Cited by 5 places in the Constitution

Westminster Confession of Faith 2

CF 4.2
After God had made all other creatures, He created man, male and female, with reasonable and immortal souls, endued with knowledge, righteousness, and true…
CF 32.1
The bodies of men, after death, return to dust and see corruption; but their souls (which neither die nor sleep) having an immortal subsistence, immediately…

Testimony of the RPCNA 2

T 32.2
We reject the idea of inactivity of the soul between death and resurrection called “soul sleep.”
T 32.5
We reject the idea that the soul at death is, or can be, reincarnated in another human or animal form.

Larger Catechism 1

LC 17
After God had made all other creatures, he created man, male and female; formed the body of the man of the dust of the ground, and the woman of the rib of the…