Genesis 3:17

New American Standard Bible 2020

Then 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 from it’; Cursed is the ground because of you; With hard labor you shall eat from it All the days of your life.

Cross References

Genesis 3:11

And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree from which I commanded you not to eat?”

Genesis 3:18

“Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; Yet you shall eat the plants of the field;

Genesis 3:6

When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took some of its fruit and ate; and she also gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.

Genesis 5:29

And he named him Noah, saying, “This one will give us comfort from our work and from the hard labor of our hands caused by the ground which the Lord has cursed.”

Genesis 8:21

The Lord smelled the soothing aroma, and the Lord said to Himself, “I will never again curse the ground on account of man, for the intent of man’s heart is evil from his youth; and I will never again destroy every living thing, as I have done.

Job 14:1

“Man, who is born of woman, Is short-lived and full of turmoil.

Job 21:17

¶“How often is the lamp of the wicked put out, Or does their disaster fall on them? Does God apportion destruction in His anger?

Psalm 127:2

It is futile for you to rise up early, To stay up late, To eat the bread of painful labor; This is how He gives to His beloved sleep.

Ecclesiastes 2:11

So I considered all my activities which my hands had done and the labor which I had exerted, and behold, all was futility and striving after wind, and there was no benefit under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:17

So I hated life, for the work which had been done under the sun was unhappy to me; because everything is futility and striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 5:17

All his life he also eats in darkness with great irritation, sickness, and anger.

Matthew 22:12

and he *said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ And the man was speechless.

Matthew 25:45

Then He will answer them, ‘Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did not do it for one of the least of these, you did not do it for Me, either.’

Luke 19:22

He *said to him, ‘From your own lips I will judge you, you worthless slave. Did you know that I am a demanding man, taking up what I did not lay down, and reaping what I did not sow?

John 16:33

These things I have spoken to you so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.”

Romans 3:19

Now we know that whatever the Law says, it speaks to those who are under the Law, so that every mouth may be closed and all the world may become accountable to God;

Hebrews 6:8

but if it yields thorns and thistles, it is worthless and close to being cursed, and it ends up being burned.