Genesis 3:18

Good News Translation

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

Cross References

Genesis 3:17

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.

Genesis 3:19

You will have to work hard and sweat to make the soil produce anything, until you go back to the soil from which you were formed. You were made from soil, and you will become soil again.”

Job 1:21

He said, “I was born with nothing, and I will die with nothing. The Lord gave, and now he has taken away. May his name be praised!”

Job 31:40

then instead of wheat and barley, may weeds and thistles grow. The words of Job are ended.

Job 5:5

Hungry people will eat the fool's crops— even the grain growing among thorns— and thirsty people will envy his wealth.

Psalm 104:2

you cover yourself with light. You have spread out the heavens like a tent

Psalm 90:3

You tell us to return to what we were; you change us back to dust.

Proverbs 22:5

If you love your life, stay away from the traps that catch the wicked along the way.

Proverbs 24:31

They were full of thorn bushes and overgrown with weeds. The stone wall around them had fallen down.

Isaiah 32:13

and thorn bushes and briers are growing on my people's land. Weep for all the houses where people were happy and for the city that was full of life.

Isaiah 5:6

I will let it be overgrown with weeds. I will not trim the vines or hoe the ground; instead, I will let briers and thorns cover it. I will even forbid the clouds to let rain fall on it.”

Isaiah 7:23

“When that time comes, the fine vineyards, each with a thousand vines and each worth a thousand pieces of silver, will be overgrown with thorn bushes and briers.

Isaiah 7:24

People will go hunting there with bows and arrows. Yes, the whole country will be full of briers and thorn bushes.

Jeremiah 12:13

My people planted wheat, but gathered weeds; they have worked hard, but got nothing for it. Because of my fierce anger their crops have failed.”

Jeremiah 4:3

The Lord says to the people of Judah and Jerusalem, “Plow up your unplowed fields; do not plant your seeds among thorns.

Matthew 13:7

Some of the seed fell among thorn bushes, which grew up and choked the plants.

Romans 14:2

Some people's faith allows them to eat anything, but the person who is weak in the faith eats only vegetables.

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.

Joshua 23:13

you may be sure that the Lord your God will no longer drive these nations out as you advance. Rather, they will be as dangerous for you as a trap or a pit and as painful as a whip on your back or thorns in your eyes. And this will last until none of you are left in this good land which the Lord your God has given you.