Genesis 3:18

New Century Version

The ground will produce thorns and weeds for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.

Cross References

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.”

Job 1:21

He said: “I was naked when I was born, and I will be naked when I die. The Lord gave these things to me, and he has taken them away. Praise the name of the Lord.”

Job 31:40

then let thorns come up instead of wheat, and let weeds come up instead of barley.” The words of Job are finished.

Job 5:5

The hungry eat his harvest, even taking what grew among the thorns, and thirsty people want his wealth.

Psalm 104:2

you wear light like a robe. You stretch out the skies like a tent.

Psalm 90:3

You turn people back into dust. You say, “Go back into dust, human beings.”

Proverbs 22:5

Evil people’s lives are like paths covered with thorns and traps. People who guard themselves don’t have such problems.

Proverbs 24:31

Thorns had grown up everywhere. The ground was covered with weeds, and the stone walls had fallen down.

Isaiah 32:13

Cry for the land of my people, in which only thorns and weeds now grow. Cry for the city that once was happy and for all the houses that once were filled with joy.

Isaiah 5:6

I will ruin my field. It will not be trimmed or hoed, and weeds and thorns will grow there. I will command the clouds not to rain on it.”

Isaiah 7:23

In this land there are now vineyards that have a thousand grapevines, which are worth about twenty-five pounds of silver. But these fields will become full of weeds and thorns.

Isaiah 7:24

The land will become wild and useful only as a hunting ground.

Jeremiah 12:13

The people have planted wheat, but they have harvested only thorns. They have worked hard until they were very tired, but they have nothing for all their work. They are ashamed of their poor harvest, because the Lord’s terrible anger has caused this.”

Jeremiah 4:3

This is what the Lord says to the people of Judah and to Jerusalem: “Plow your unplowed fields, and don’t plant seeds among thorns.

Matthew 13:7

Some other seed fell among thorny weeds, which grew and choked the good plants.

Romans 14:2

One person believes it is right to eat all kinds of food. But another, who is weak, believes it is right to eat only vegetables.

Hebrews 6:8

Other people are like land that grows thorns and weeds and is worthless. It is about to be cursed by God and will be destroyed by fire.

Joshua 23:13

the Lord your God will not help you defeat your enemies. They will be like traps for you, like whips on your back and thorns in your eyes, and none of you will be left in this good land the Lord your God has given you.