Genesis 3:18

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth for you, and you shall eat the plants of the field.

Cross References

Genesis 3:17

And to Adam He said, Because you have listened and given heed to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat of it, the ground is under a curse because of you; in sorrow and toil shall you eat [of the fruits] of it all the days of your life.

Genesis 3:19

In the sweat of your face shall you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you shall return.

Job 1:21

And said, Naked (without possessions) came I [into this world] from my mother's womb, and naked (without possessions) shall I depart. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; blessed (praised and magnified in worship) be the name of the Lord!

Job 31:40

Let thistles grow instead of wheat and cockleburs instead of barley. The [controversial] words of Job [with his friends] are ended.

Job 5:5

His harvest the hungry eat and take it even [when it grows] among the thorns; the snare opens for [his] wealth.

Psalm 104:2

[You are the One] Who covers Yourself with light as with a garment, Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain or a tent,

Psalm 90:3

You turn man back to dust and corruption, and say, Return, O sons of the earthborn [to the earth]!

Proverbs 22:5

Thorns and snares are in the way of the obstinate and willful; he who guards himself will be far from them.

Proverbs 24:31

And, behold, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles were covering its face, and its stone wall was broken down.

Isaiah 32:13

For the land of my people growing over with thorns and briers–yes, for all the houses of joy in the joyous city.

Isaiah 5:6

And I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned or cultivated, but there shall come up briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

Isaiah 7:23

And in that day, in every place where there used to be a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels, there will be briers and thorns.

Isaiah 7:24

With arrows and with bows shall a man come [to hunt] there, because all the land will be briers and thorns.

Jeremiah 12:13

They have sown wheat but have reaped thorns; they have worn themselves out but without profit. And they shall be ashamed of your [lack of] harvests and revenues because of the fierce and glowing anger of the Lord.

Jeremiah 4:3

For thus says the Lord to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem: Break up your ground left uncultivated for a season, so that you may not sow among thorns.

Matthew 13:7

Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them out.

Romans 14:2

One [man's faith permits him to] believe he may eat anything, while a weaker one [limits his] eating to vegetables.

Hebrews 6:8

But if [that same soil] persistently bears thorns and thistles, it is considered worthless and near to being cursed, whose end is to be burned. [Gen. 3:17, 18.]

Joshua 23:13

Know with certainty that the Lord your God will not continue to drive these nations from before you; but they shall be a snare and trap to you, and a scourge in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which the Lord your God has given you.