Genesis 3:18

American Standard Version (1901)

thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

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  • Josh 23:13 : 13 know for a certainty that Jehovah your God will no more drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap unto you, and a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which Jehovah your God hath given you.
  • Job 1:21 : 21 and he said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: Jehovah gave, and Jehovah hath taken away; blessed be the name of Jehovah.
  • Job 5:5 : 5 Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, And taketh it even out of the thorns; And the snare gapeth for their substance.
  • Job 31:40 : 40 Let thistles grow instead of wheat, And cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
  • Ps 90:3 : 3 Thou turnest man to destruction, And sayest, Return, ye children of men.
  • Ps 104:2 : 2 Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment; Who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain;
  • Ps 104:14-15 : 14 He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, And herb for the service of man; That he may bring forth food out of the earth, 15 And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, [And] oil to make his face to shine, And bread that strengtheneth man's heart.
  • Prov 22:5 : 5 Thorns [and] snares are in the way of the perverse: He that keepeth his soul shall be far from them.
  • Prov 24:31 : 31 And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, The face thereof was covered with nettles, And the stone wall thereof was broken down.
  • Isa 5:6 : 6 and I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned nor hoed; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
  • Isa 7:23 : 23 And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, shall be for briers and thorns.
  • Isa 32:13 : 13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
  • Jer 4:3 : 3 For thus saith Jehovah to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.
  • Jer 12:13 : 13 They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns; they have put themselves to pain, and profit nothing: and ye shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce anger of Jehovah.
  • Matt 13:7 : 7 And others fell upon the thorns; and the thorns grew up and choked them:
  • Rom 14:2 : 2 One man hath faith to eat all things: but he that is weak eateth herbs.
  • Heb 6:8 : 8 but if it beareth thorns and thistles, it is rejected and nigh unto a curse; whose end is to be burned.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 3:11-17
    7 verses
    83%

    11And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?

    12And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.

    13And Jehovah God said unto the woman, What is this thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

    14And Jehovah God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, cursed art thou above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

    15and I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed: he shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

    16Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy conception; in pain thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

    17And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

  • Gen 3:19
    82%

    19in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

  • Gen 3:22-23
    2 verses
    77%

    22And Jehovah God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever--

    23therefore Jehovah God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

  • Gen 1:29-30
    2 verses
    76%

    29And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for food:

    30and to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the heavens, and to everything that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, [I have given] every green herb for food: and it was so.

  • Gen 4:11-12
    2 verses
    76%

    11And now cursed art thou from the ground, which hath opened its mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;

    12when thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee its strength; a fugitive and a wanderer shalt thou be in the earth.

  • Gen 1:11-12
    2 verses
    73%

    11And God said, Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, [and] fruit-trees bearing fruit after their kind, wherein is the seed thereof, upon the earth: and it was so.

    12And the earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, wherein is the seed thereof, after their kind: and God saw that it was good.

  • Gen 3:1-3
    3 verses
    73%

    1Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which Jehovah God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of any tree of the garden?

    2And the woman said unto the serpent, Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat:

    3but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

  • Isa 30:23
    72%

    23And he will give the rain for thy seed, wherewith thou shalt sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground, and it shall be fat and plenteous. In that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures;

  • Isa 37:30
    72%

    30And this shall be the sign unto thee: ye shall eat this year that which groweth of itself, and in the second year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.

  • Deut 28:18
    72%

    18Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, the increase of thy cattle, and the young of thy flock.

  • Gen 2:15-17
    3 verses
    71%

    15And Jehovah God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

    16And Jehovah God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

    17but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

  • Gen 2:9
    71%

    9And out of the ground made Jehovah God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

  • Deut 28:38-39
    2 verses
    71%

    38Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.

    39Thou shalt plant vineyards and dress them, but thou shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather [the grapes] ; for the worm shall eat them.

  • Ps 104:14
    71%

    14He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, And herb for the service of man; That he may bring forth food out of the earth,

  • Isa 7:25
    71%

    25And all the hills that were digged with the mattock, thou shalt not come thither for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of sheep.

  • 2 Kgs 19:29
    71%

    29And this shall be the sign unto thee: Ye shall eat this year that which groweth of itself, and in the second year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.

  • Heb 6:7-8
    2 verses
    71%

    7For the land which hath drunk the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receiveth blessing from God:

    8but if it beareth thorns and thistles, it is rejected and nigh unto a curse; whose end is to be burned.

  • Gen 2:5
    70%

    5And no plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Jehovah God had not caused it to rain upon the earth: and there was not a man to till the ground;

  • Isa 17:11
    70%

    11In the day of thy planting thou hedgest it in, and in the morning thou makest thy seed to blossom; but the harvest fleeth away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

  • Ps 128:2
    70%

    2For thou shalt eat the labor of thy hands: Happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.

  • Deut 28:16
    70%

    16Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.

  • Gen 3:5-6
    2 verses
    69%

    5for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil.

    6And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat; and she gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat.

  • Gen 9:3
    69%

    3Every moving thing that liveth shall be food for you; as the green herb have I given you all.

  • Hab 3:17
    69%

    17For though the fig-tree shall not flourish, Neither shall fruit be in the vines; The labor of the olive shall fail, And the fields shall yield no food; The flock shall be cut off from the fold, And there shall be no herd in the stalls:

  • Gen 3:8
    69%

    8And they heard the voice of Jehovah God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Jehovah God amongst the trees of the garden.

  • Job 5:23
    69%

    23For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field; And the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.

  • Mark 4:28
    69%

    28The earth beareth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.

  • Lev 25:3
    69%

    3Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruits thereof;