Genesis 3:18

New International Version

It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.

Cross References

Genesis 3:17

To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life.

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”

Job 1:21

and said: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will depart. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised.”

Job 31:40

then let briers come up instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.

Job 5:5

The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from among thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.

Psalm 104:2

The Lord wraps himself in light as with a garment; he stretches out the heavens like a tent

Psalm 90:3

You turn people back to dust, saying, “Return to dust, you mortals.”

Proverbs 22:5

In the paths of the wicked are snares and pitfalls, but those who would preserve their life stay far from them.

Proverbs 24:31

thorns had come up everywhere, the ground was covered with weeds, and the stone wall was in ruins.

Isaiah 32:13

and for the land of my people, a land overgrown with thorns and briers— yes, mourn for all houses of merriment and for this city of revelry.

Isaiah 5:6

I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and briers and thorns will grow there. I will command the clouds not to rain on it.”

Isaiah 7:23

In that day, in every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels, there will be only briers and thorns.

Isaiah 7:24

Hunters will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be covered with briers and thorns.

Jeremiah 12:13

They will sow wheat but reap thorns; they will wear themselves out but gain nothing. They will bear the shame of their harvest because of the Lord’s fierce anger.”

Jeremiah 4:3

This is what the Lord says to the people of Judah and to Jerusalem: “Break up your unplowed ground and do not sow among thorns.

Matthew 13:7

Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants.

Romans 14:2

One person’s faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables.

Hebrews 6:8

But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless and is in danger of being cursed. In the end it will be burned.

Joshua 23:13

then you may be sure that the Lord your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become snares and traps for you, whips on your backs and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land, which the Lord your God has given you.