Genesis 3:18

New King James Version

Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, And you shall eat the herb of the field.

Cross References

Genesis 3:17

Then to Adam He said, “Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’: “Cursed is the ground for your sake; In toil you shall eat of it All the days of your life.

Genesis 3:19

In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread Till you return to the ground, For out of it you were taken; For dust you are, And to dust you shall return.”

Job 1:21

And he said: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, And naked shall I return there. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; Blessed be the name of the Lord.”

Job 31:40

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

Job 5:5

Because the hungry eat up his harvest, Taking it even from the thorns, And a snare snatches their substance.

Psalm 104:2

Who cover Yourself with light as with a garment, Who stretch out the heavens like a curtain.

Psalm 90:3

You turn man to destruction, And say, “Return, O children 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 there it was, all overgrown with thorns; Its surface was covered with nettles; Its stone wall was broken down.

Isaiah 32:13

On the land of my people will come up thorns and briers, Yes, on all the happy homes in the joyous city;

Isaiah 5:6

I will lay it waste; It shall not be pruned or dug, But there shall come up briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds That they rain no rain on it.”

Isaiah 7:23

It shall happen in that day, That wherever there could be a thousand vines Worth a thousand shekels of silver, It will be for briers and thorns.

Isaiah 7:24

With arrows and bows men will come there, Because all the land will become briers and thorns.

Jeremiah 12:13

They have sown wheat but reaped thorns; They have put themselves to pain but do not profit. But 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

And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up and choked them.

Romans 14:2

For one believes he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.

Hebrews 6:8

but if it bears thorns and briers, it is rejected and near to being cursed, whose end 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, and scourges on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land which the Lord your God has given you.