Genesis 3:18

Free Bible Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 3:17

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.

Genesis 3:19

You will have to sweat to grow enough food to eat until you die and return to the ground. For you were made from dust and you will return to dust.”

Job 1:21

“I was naked when I came out of my mother's womb, and I shall be naked when I leave,” he said. “The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away. May the Lord's name be honored.”

Job 31:40

then let thorns grow instead of wheat, and weeds instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.

Job 5:5

The hungry eat everything he has harvested, taking even that protected by a thorn hedge, while others look to steal his wealth.

Psalm 104:2

You wear light as your clothing; you stretch out the fabric of the heavens.

Psalm 90:3

You turn people back into dust, saying, “Return to dust, human beings.”

Proverbs 22:5

Thorns and traps lie in the path of crooked people; those who value their lives will stay away from them.

Proverbs 24:31

It was all overgrown with thorns, the ground was covered with weeds, and the stone wall had fallen down.

Isaiah 32:13

over the loss of the land of my people. Mourn because it's now overgrown with thorns and brambles, mourn because of the loss of all the happy homes and joyful towns.

Isaiah 5:6

I'll turn it into a wasteland. It won't be pruned or weeded—it will be overgrown with brambles and thorns. I'll order the clouds not to rain on it.”

Isaiah 7:23

At that time everywhere that once had a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels will only have brambles and thorns.

Isaiah 7:24

People will go hunting there with bows and arrows because the land will be covered with brambles and thorns.

Jeremiah 12:13

My people sowed wheat but harvested thorns. They wore themselves out but gained no benefit. You should be ashamed of such a poor harvest, caused by the Lord's furious anger.

Jeremiah 4:3

This is what the Lord is saying to the people of Judah and Jerusalem: Plow your unplowed ground, and don't sow among the thorns.

Matthew 13:7

Other seeds fell among thorns that grew up and choked them.

Romans 14:2

One person may believe they can eat anything, while another whose trust is weak only eats vegetables.

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.

Joshua 23:13

you can be absolutely sure that the Lord your God will definitely not drive out these nations before you. On the contrary, they will be a trap and a snare to you, a whip on your back and thorns in your eyes until you die out completely from this good land the Lord your God has given you.