Genesis 3:18

Modern English Version

Thorns and thistles it will bring forth for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.

Cross References

Genesis 3:17

And to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ Cursed is the ground on account of you; in hard labor you will eat of it all the days of your life.

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the ground, because out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return.”

Job 1:21

He said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked will I return there. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.”

Job 31:40

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

Job 5:5

whose harvest the hungry eats up, and takes it even out of the thorns, and the thirsty captures his wealth.

Psalm 104:2

covering Yourself with light as with a garment, stretching out the heavens like a curtain.

Psalm 90:3

You return man to the dust and say, “Return, O sons of men.”

Proverbs 22:5

Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse; he who guards his soul will be far from them.

Proverbs 24:31

and behold, it was all overgrown with thorns, and nettles had covered its surface, and its stone wall was broken down.

Isaiah 32:13

for the land of my people in which thorns and briers shall come up, yes, for all the joyful houses and for the jubilant city;

Isaiah 5:6

And I will lay it waste: It shall not be pruned or dug, but briers and thorns shall come up. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.

Isaiah 7:23

In that day every place where there were one thousand vines, worth one thousand shekels of silver, shall become briers and thorns.

Isaiah 7:24

With arrows and with bows shall men come there because all the land shall become briers and thorns.

Jeremiah 12:13

They have sown wheat, but reap thorns; they have strained themselves, but shall not profit. And they shall be ashamed of your harvest because of the fierce anger of the Lord.

Jeremiah 4:3

For thus says the Lord to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: Break up your fallow ground, and do not sow among thorns.

Matthew 13:7

Some seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them.

Romans 14:2

For one has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.

Hebrews 6:8

But land that bears thorns and thistles is rejected and near to being cursed. Its destiny is to be burned.

Joshua 23:13

know for certain that the Lord your God will no longer drive out these nations from before you. But they shall be snares and traps to you, a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good ground that the Lord your God has given you.