Genesis 3:18

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Your food will be plants, but the ground will produce thorns and thistles.

Cross References

Genesis 3:17

The LORD said to the man, “You listened to your wife and ate fruit from that tree. And so, the ground will be under a curse because of what you did. As long as you live, you will have to struggle to grow enough food.

Genesis 3:19

You will have to sweat to earn a living; you were made out of soil, and you will once again turn into soil.”

Job 1:21

and said: “We bring nothing at birth; we take nothing with us at death. The LORD alone gives and takes. Praise the name of the LORD!”

Job 31:40

If I had, I would pray for weeds instead of wheat to grow in my fields. After saying these things, Job was silent.

Job 5:5

Then hungry and greedy people gobble up their crops and grab their wealth.

Psalm 104:2

and surrounded by light. You spread out the sky like a tent,

Psalm 90:3

At your command we die and turn back to dust,

Proverbs 22:5

Crooks walk down a road full of thorny traps. Stay away from there!

Proverbs 24:31

Thorns and weeds were everywhere, and the stone wall had fallen down.

Isaiah 32:13

and to the happy homes in Jerusalem. The land of my people is covered with thorns.

Isaiah 5:6

It will turn into a desert, neither pruned nor hoed; it will be covered with thorns and briars. I will command the clouds not to send rain.

Isaiah 7:23

Vineyards that had a thousand vines and were worth a thousand pieces of silver will turn into thorn patches.

Isaiah 7:24

You will go there to hunt with your bow and arrows, because the whole country will be covered with thorn bushes.

Jeremiah 12:13

My people, you planted wheat, but because I was furious, I let only weeds grow. You wore yourselves out for nothing!

Jeremiah 4:3

People of Jerusalem and Judah, don't be so stubborn! Your hearts have become hard, like unploughed ground where thorn bushes grow.

Matthew 13:7

Some other seeds fell where thorn bushes grew up and choked the plants.

Romans 14:2

Some think it is all right to eat anything, while those whose faith is weak will eat only vegetables.

Hebrews 6:8

But land that produces only thorn bushes is worthless. It is likely to fall under God's curse, and in the end it will be set on fire.