Genesis 3:22

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

The LORD said, “These people now know the difference between right and wrong, just as we do. But they must not be allowed to eat fruit from the tree that lets them live for ever.”

Cross References

Genesis 1:26

God said, “Now we will make humans, and they will be like us. We will let them rule the fish, the birds, and all other living creatures.”

Genesis 2:9

The LORD God placed all kinds of beautiful trees and fruit trees in the garden. Two other trees were in the middle of the garden. One of the trees gave life—the other gave the power to know the difference between right and wrong.

Genesis 3:21

Then the LORD God made clothes out of animal skins for the man and his wife.

Genesis 3:23

So the LORD God sent them out of the Garden of Eden, where they would have to work the ground from which the man had been made.

Genesis 3:5

“God understands what will happen on the day you eat fruit from that tree. You will see what you have done, and you will know the difference between right and wrong, just as God does.”

Psalm 22:26

The poor will eat and be full, and all who worship you will be thankful and live in hope.

Proverbs 3:18

Wisdom is a life-giving tree, the source of happiness for all who hold on to her.

Jeremiah 22:23

Those who live in the palace panelled with cedar will groan with pain like women giving birth.

Revelation 2:7

If you have ears, listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. I will let everyone who wins the victory eat from the life-giving tree in God's wonderful garden.

Revelation 22:14

God will bless all who have washed their robes. They will each have the right to eat fruit from the tree that gives life, and they can enter the gates of the city.

Revelation 22:2

Then it flowed down the middle of the city's main street. On each side of the river are trees that grow a different kind of fruit each month of the year. The fruit gives life, and the leaves are used as medicine to heal the nations.