Genesis 3:18

New Living Translation

It will grow thorns and thistles for you, though you will eat of its grains.

Cross References

Genesis 3:17

And to the man he said, “Since you listened to your wife and ate from the tree whose fruit I commanded you not to eat, the ground is cursed because of you. All your life you will struggle to scratch a living from it.

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your brow will you have food to eat until you return to the ground from which you were made. For you were made from dust, and to dust you will return.”

Job 1:21

He said, “I came naked from my mother’s womb, and I will be naked when I leave. The Lord gave me what I had, and the Lord has taken it away. Praise the name of the Lord!”

Job 31:40

then let thistles grow on that land instead of wheat, and weeds instead of barley.” Job’s words are ended.

Job 5:5

The hungry devour their harvest, even when it is guarded by brambles. The thirsty pant after their wealth.

Psalm 104:2

You are dressed in a robe of light. You stretch out the starry curtain of the heavens;

Psalm 90:3

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

Proverbs 22:5

Corrupt people walk a thorny, treacherous road; whoever values life will avoid it.

Proverbs 24:31

I saw that it was overgrown with nettles. It was covered with weeds, and its walls were broken down.

Isaiah 32:13

For your land will be overgrown with thorns and briers. Your joyful homes and happy towns will be gone.

Isaiah 5:6

I will make it a wild place where the vines are not pruned and the ground is not hoed, a place overgrown with briers and thorns. I will command the clouds to drop no rain on it.

Isaiah 7:23

In that day the lush vineyards, now worth 1,000 pieces of silver, will become patches of briers and thorns.

Isaiah 7:24

The entire land will become a vast expanse of briers and thorns, a hunting ground overrun by wildlife.

Jeremiah 12:13

My people have planted wheat but are harvesting thorns. They have worn themselves out, but it has done them no good. They will harvest a crop of shame because of the fierce anger of the Lord.”

Jeremiah 4:3

This is what the Lord says to the people of Judah and Jerusalem: “Plow up the hard ground of your hearts! Do not waste your good seed among thorns.

Matthew 13:7

Other seeds fell among thorns that grew up and choked out the tender plants.

Romans 14:2

For instance, one person believes it’s all right to eat anything. But another believer with a sensitive conscience will eat only vegetables.

Hebrews 6:8

But if a field bears thorns and thistles, it is useless. The farmer will soon condemn that field and burn it.

Joshua 23:13

then know for certain that the Lord your God will no longer drive them out of your land. Instead, they will be a snare and a trap to you, a whip for your backs and thorny brambles in your eyes, and you will vanish from this good land the Lord your God has given you.