Genesis 3:17

Good News Translation

And he said to the man, “You listened to your wife and ate the fruit which I told you not to eat. Because of what you have done, the ground will be under a curse. You will have to work hard all your life to make it produce enough food for you.

Cross References

Genesis 3:11

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

Genesis 3:18

It will produce weeds and thorns, and you will have to eat wild plants.

Genesis 3:6

The woman saw how beautiful the tree was and how good its fruit would be to eat, and she thought how wonderful it would be to become wise. So she took some of the fruit and ate it. Then she gave some to her husband, and he also ate it.

Genesis 5:29

and said, “From the very ground on which the Lord put a curse, this child will bring us relief from all our hard work”; so he named him Noah.

Genesis 8:21

The odor of the sacrifice pleased the Lord, and he said to himself, “Never again will I put the earth under a curse because of what people do; I know that from the time they are young their thoughts are evil. Never again will I destroy all living beings, as I have done this time.

Job 14:1

We are all born weak and helpless. All lead the same short, troubled life.

Job 21:17

Was a wicked person's light ever put out? Did one of them ever meet with disaster? Did God ever punish the wicked in anger

Psalm 127:2

It is useless to work so hard for a living, getting up early and going to bed late. For the Lord provides for those he loves, while they are asleep.

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Then I thought about all that I had done and how hard I had worked doing it, and I realized that it didn't mean a thing. It was like chasing the wind—of no use at all.

Ecclesiastes 2:17

So life came to mean nothing to me, because everything in it had brought me nothing but trouble. It had all been useless; I had been chasing the wind.

Ecclesiastes 5:17

We get to live our lives in darkness and grief, worried, angry, and sick.

Matthew 22:12

‘Friend, how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ the king asked him. But the man said nothing.

Matthew 25:45

The King will reply, ‘I tell you, whenever you refused to help one of these least important ones, you refused to help me.’

Luke 19:22

He said to him, ‘You bad servant! I will use your own words to condemn you! You know that I am a hard man, taking what is not mine and reaping what I have not planted.

John 16:33

I have told you this so that you will have peace by being united to me. The world will make you suffer. But be brave! I have defeated the world!”

Romans 3:19

Now we know that everything in the Law applies to those who live under the Law, in order to stop all human excuses and bring the whole world under God's judgment.

Hebrews 6:8

But if it grows thorns and weeds, it is worth nothing; it is in danger of being cursed by God and will be destroyed by fire.