Genesis 3:17

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He told Adam, “Because you did what your wife told you, and ate fruit from the tree after I ordered you, ‘Don't eat fruit from this tree,’ the ground is now cursed because of you. You will have to work painfully hard to grow food from it throughout your whole life.

Cross References

Genesis 3:11

“Who told you that you were naked?” asked the Lord God. “Did you eat fruit from the tree I ordered you not to?”

Genesis 3:18

It will grow thorns and thistles for you, and you will have to eat wild plants.

Genesis 3:6

Eve saw that the fruit of the tree appeared good to eat. It looked very attractive. She really wanted it so she could become wise. So she took some of its fruit and ate it, and she gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it too.

Genesis 5:29

He named him Noah, with the explanation, “He will provide relief for us from all the hard manual labor we need to do in cultivating the ground the Lord has cursed.”

Genesis 8:21

The Lord accepted the sacrifice, and said to himself, “I won't ever again curse the ground because of human beings, even though every single thought in their minds is evil from childhood. I won't ever destroy all life again as I have just done.

Job 14:1

“Life is short and full of trouble,

Job 21:17

How often is the lamp of the wicked snuffed out? How often does disaster come upon them? How often does God punish the wicked in his anger?

Psalm 127:2

It's useless to get up early in the morning and go to work, and stay late into the evening, worrying about earning enough to eat, when the Lord gives rest to those he loves.

Ecclesiastes 2:11

But when I thought about what I had worked so hard to achieve, everything I'd done, it was so short-lived—as significant as someone trying to catch the wind. There really is no enduring benefit here on earth.

Ecclesiastes 2:17

So I ended up feeling disgusted with life because everything that happens here on earth is so distressing. It's so incomprehensible, like trying to control the wind.

Ecclesiastes 5:17

They live their lives in darkness, very frustrated, sick, and resentful.

Matthew 22:12

He asked him, ‘My friend, how did you get in here without a wedding robe?’ The man had nothing to say.

Matthew 25:45

Then he will tell them, ‘I tell you the truth: whatever you didn't do for one of these least important brothers of mine you didn't do for me.’

Luke 19:22

‘I'll judge you by your own words,’ the king replied. ‘You know I'm a hard man, who as you say, takes what doesn't belong to me, and I harvest what I didn't plant.

John 16:33

I've told you all this so that you may have peace because you are one with me. You will suffer in this world, but be brave—I have defeated the world!”

Romans 3:19

It's clear that everything in the law applies to those who live under the law so that no one could have any excuses, and to make sure everyone in the whole world is answerable to God.

Hebrews 6:8

But land that only produces weeds and thorns is worthless, and is about to be condemned. In the end all that can be done is to burn it.