Genesis 2:17

New Century Version

but you must not eat the fruit from the tree which gives the knowledge of good and evil. If you ever eat fruit from that tree, you will die!”

Cross References

Genesis 2:9

The Lord God caused every beautiful tree and every tree that was good for food to grow out of the ground. In the middle of the garden, God put the tree that gives life and also the tree that gives the knowledge of good and evil.

Genesis 20:7

Give Abraham his wife back. He is a prophet. He will pray for you, and you will not die. But if you do not give Sarah back, you and all your family will surely die.”

Genesis 3:11

God asked, “Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat fruit from the tree from which I commanded you not to eat?”

Genesis 3:17

Then God said to the man, “You listened to what your wife said, and you ate fruit from the tree from which I commanded you not to eat. “So I will put a curse on the ground, and you will have to work very hard for your food. In pain you will eat its food all the days of your life.

Genesis 3:19

You will sweat and work hard for your food. Later you will return to the ground, because you were taken from it. You are dust, and when you die, you will return to the dust.”

1 Kings 2:37

The very day you leave and cross the Kidron Valley, someone will kill you, and it will be your own fault.”

1 Kings 2:42

So Solomon sent for Shimei and said, “I made you promise in the name of the Lord not to leave Jerusalem. I warned you if you went out anywhere you would die, and you agreed to what I said.

Jeremiah 26:8

When Jeremiah finished speaking everything the Lord had commanded him to say, the priests, prophets, and all the people grabbed Jeremiah. They said, “You must die!

Ezekiel 18:13

He lends money for too much interest and profit. Will this son live? No, he will not live! He has done all these hateful things, so he will surely be put to death. He will be responsible for his own death.

Ezekiel 18:32

I do not want anyone to die, says the Lord God, so change your hearts and lives so you may live.

Ezekiel 18:4

Every living thing belongs to me. The life of the parent is mine, and the life of the child is mine. The person who sins is the one who will die.

Ezekiel 33:14

Or, if I say to the wicked people, ‘You will surely die,’ they may stop sinning and do what is right and honest.

Ezekiel 33:8

Suppose I say to the wicked: ‘Wicked people, you will surely die,’ but you don’t speak to warn the wicked to stop doing evil. Then they will die because they were sinners, but I will punish you for their deaths.

Numbers 26:65

The Lord had told the Israelites they would all die in the desert, and the only two left were Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

Romans 1:32

They know God’s law says that those who live like this should die. But they themselves not only continue to do these evil things, they applaud others who do them.

Romans 6:16

Surely you know that when you give yourselves like slaves to obey someone, then you are really slaves of that person. The person you obey is your master. You can follow sin, which brings spiritual death, or you can obey God, which makes you right with him.

Romans 6:23

The payment for sin is death. But God gives us the free gift of life forever in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:2

Through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit that brings life made you free from the law that brings sin and death.

1 Corinthians 15:22

In Adam all of us die. In the same way, in Christ all of us will be made alive again.

1 Corinthians 15:56

Death’s power to hurt is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

Galatians 3:10

But those who depend on following the law to make them right are under a curse, because the Scriptures say, “Anyone will be cursed who does not always obey what is written in the Book of the Law.”

Ephesians 5:14

and everything that is made easy to see can become light. This is why it is said: “Wake up, sleeper! Rise from death, and Christ will shine on you.”

Deuteronomy 27:26

“Anyone will be cursed who does not agree with the words of these teachings and does not obey them.” Then all the people will say, “Amen!”

Deuteronomy 30:15

Look, today I offer you life and success, death and destruction.

Deuteronomy 30:19

Today I ask heaven and earth to be witnesses. I am offering you life or death, blessings or curses. Now, choose life! Then you and your children may live.

Colossians 2:13

When you were spiritually dead because of your sins and because you were not free from the power of your sinful self, God made you alive with Christ, and he forgave all our sins.

1 Timothy 5:6

But the widow who uses her life to please herself is really dead while she is alive.

James 1:15

This desire leads to sin, and then the sin grows and brings death.

1 John 5:16

If anyone sees a brother or sister sinning (sin that does not lead to eternal death), that person should pray, and God will give the sinner life. I am talking about people whose sin does not lead to eternal death. There is sin that leads to death. I do not mean that a person should pray about that sin.

Revelation 2:11

“Everyone who has ears should listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. Those who win the victory will not be hurt by the second death.

Revelation 20:14

And Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death.

Revelation 20:6

Blessed and holy are those who share in this first raising of the dead. The second death has no power over them. They will be priests for God and for Christ and will rule with him for a thousand years.

Revelation 21:8

But cowards, those who refuse to believe, who do evil things, who kill, who sin sexually, who do evil magic, who worship idols, and who tell lies—all these will have a place in the lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”

Judges 3:2

(The only reason the Lord left those nations in the land was to teach the descendants of the Israelites who had not fought in those wars how to fight.)

1 Samuel 14:39

As surely as the Lord lives who has saved Israel, even if my son Jonathan did the sin, he must die.” But no one in the army spoke.

1 Samuel 14:44

Saul said, “Jonathan, if you don’t die, may God punish me terribly.”

1 Samuel 20:31

As long as Jesse’s son lives, you will never be king or have a kingdom. Now send for David and bring him to me. He must die!”

1 Samuel 22:16

But the king said, “Ahimelech, you and all your relatives must die!”