Genesis 3:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And to Adam he said, Because you gave ear to the voice of your wife and took of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take, the earth is cursed on your account; in pain you will get your food from it all your life.

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  • Rom 8:20-22 : 20 For every living thing was put under the power of change, not by its desire, but by him who made it so, in hope 21 That all living things will be made free from the power of death and will have a part with the free children of God in glory. 22 For we are conscious that all living things are weeping and sorrowing in pain together till now.
  • Gen 5:29 : 29 And he gave him the name of Noah, saying, Truly, he will give us rest from our trouble and the hard work of our hands, because of the earth which was cursed by God.
  • Eccl 2:22-23 : 22 What does a man get for all his work, and for the weight of care with which he has done his work under the sun? 23 All his days are sorrow, and his work is full of grief. Even in the night his heart has no rest. This again is to no purpose.
  • Job 14:1 : 1 As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble.
  • Matt 25:26-27 : 26 But his lord in answer said to him, You are a bad and unready servant; if you had knowledge that I get in grain where I did not put seed, and make profits for which I have done no work, 27 Why, then, did you not put my money in the bank, and at my coming I would have got back what is mine with interest?
  • Matt 25:45 : 45 Then will he make answer to them, saying, Truly I say to you, Because you did it not to the least of these, you did it not to me.
  • Luke 19:22 : 22 He said to him, By the words of your mouth you will be judged, you bad servant. You had knowledge that I am a hard man, taking up what I have not put down and getting in grain where I have not put seed;
  • John 16:33 : 33 I have said all these things to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble: but take heart! I have overcome the world.
  • Rom 3:19 : 19 Now, we have knowledge that what the law says is for those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all men may be judged by God:
  • Job 21:17 : 17 How frequently is the light of the evil-doers put out, or does trouble come on them? how frequently does his wrath take them with cords?
  • Ps 90:7-9 : 7 We are burned up by the heat of your passion, and troubled by your wrath. 8 You have put our evil doings before you, our secret sins in the light of your face. 9 For all our days have gone by in your wrath; our years come to an end like a breath.
  • Ps 127:2 : 2 It is of no use for you to get up early, and to go late to your rest, with the bread of sorrow for your food; for the Lord gives to his loved ones in sleep.
  • Eccl 1:2-3 : 2 All is to no purpose, said the Preacher, all the ways of man are to no purpose. 3 What is a man profited by all his work which he does under the sun?
  • Eccl 1:13-14 : 13 And I gave my heart to searching out in wisdom all things which are done under heaven: it is a hard thing which God has put on the sons of men to do. 14 I have seen all the works which are done under the sun; all is to no purpose, and desire for wind.
  • Eccl 2:11 : 11 Then I saw all the works which my hands had made, and everything I had been working to do; and I saw that all was to no purpose and desire for wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
  • Eccl 2:17 : 17 So I was hating life, because everything under the sun was evil to me: all is to no purpose and desire for wind.
  • Eccl 5:17 : 17 This is what I have seen: it is good and fair for a man to take meat and drink and to have joy in all his work under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; that is his reward.
  • Isa 24:5-6 : 5 The earth has been made unclean by those living in it; because the laws have not been kept by them, the orders have been changed, and the eternal agreement has been broken. 6 For this cause the earth is given up to the curse, and those in it are judged as sinners: for this cause those living on the earth are burned up, and the rest are small in number.
  • Jer 7:23-24 : 23 But this was the order I gave them, saying, Give ear to my voice, and I will be your God, and you will be my people: go in all the way ordered by me, so that all may be well for you. 24 But they took no note and did not give ear, but were guided by the thoughts and the pride of their evil hearts, going back and not forward.
  • Matt 22:12 : 12 And he says to him, Friend, how came you in here not having a guest's robe? And he had nothing to say.
  • 1 Sam 15:23-24 : 23 For to go against his orders is like the sin of those who make use of secret arts, and pride is like giving worship to images. Because you have put away from you the word of the Lord, he has put you from your place as king. 24 And Saul said to Samuel, Great is my sin: for I have gone against the orders of the Lord and against your words: because, fearing the people, I did what they said.
  • Job 5:6-7 : 6 For evil does not come out of the dust, or trouble out of the earth; 7 But trouble is man's fate from birth, as the flames go up from the fire.
  • Gen 2:16-17 : 16 And the Lord God gave the man orders, saying, You may freely take of the fruit of every tree of the garden: 17 But of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you may not take; for on the day when you take of it, death will certainly come to you.
  • Gen 3:6 : 6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and a delight to the eyes, and to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and gave it to her husband.
  • Gen 3:11 : 11 And he said, Who gave you the knowledge that you were without clothing? Have you taken of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 3:1-16
    16 verses
    83%

    1 Now the snake was wiser than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, Has God truly said that you may not take of the fruit of any tree in the garden?

    2 And the woman said, We may take of the fruit of the trees in the garden:

    3 But of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, If you take of it or put your hands on it, death will come to you.

    4 And the snake said, Death will not certainly come to you:

    5 For God sees that on the day when you take of its fruit, your eyes will be open, and you will be as gods, having knowledge of good and evil.

    6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and a delight to the eyes, and to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and gave it to her husband.

    7 And their eyes were open and they were conscious that they had no clothing and they made themselves coats of leaves stitched together.

    8 And there came to them the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the evening wind: and the man and his wife went to a secret place among the trees of the garden, away from the eyes of the Lord God.

    9 And the voice of the Lord God came to the man, saying, Where are you?

    10 And he said, Hearing your voice in the garden I was full of fear, because I was without clothing: and I kept myself from your eyes.

    11 And he said, Who gave you the knowledge that you were without clothing? Have you taken of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take?

    12 And the man said, The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me the fruit of the tree and I took it.

    13 And the Lord God said to the woman, What have you done? And the woman said, I was tricked by the deceit of the snake and I took it.

    14 And the Lord God said to the snake, Because you have done this you are cursed more than all cattle and every beast of the field; you will go flat on the earth, and dust will be your food all the days of your life:

    15 And there will be war between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed: by him will your head be crushed and by you his foot will be wounded.

    16 To the woman he said, Great will be your pain in childbirth; in sorrow will your children come to birth; still your desire will be for your husband, but he will be your master.

  • Gen 3:18-23
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    83%

    18 Thorns and waste plants will come up, and the plants of the field will be your food;

    19 With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.

    20 And the man gave his wife the name of Eve because she was the mother of all who have life.

    21 And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife coats of skins for their clothing.

    22 And the Lord God said, Now the man has become like one of us, having knowledge of good and evil; and now if he puts out his hand and takes of the fruit of the tree of life, he will go on living for ever.

    23 So the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to be a worker on the earth from which he was taken.

  • Gen 2:15-17
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    76%

    15 And the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to do work in it and take care of it.

    16 And the Lord God gave the man orders, saying, You may freely take of the fruit of every tree of the garden:

    17 But of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you may not take; for on the day when you take of it, death will certainly come to you.

  • Gen 4:11-12
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    74%

    11 And now you are cursed from the earth, whose mouth is open to take your brother's blood from your hand;

    12 No longer will the earth give you her fruit as the reward of your work; you will be a wanderer in flight over the earth.

  • Gen 2:23-24
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    72%

    23 And the man said, This is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh: let her name be Woman because she was taken out of Man.

    24 For this cause will a man go away from his father and his mother and be joined to his wife; and they will be one flesh.

  • 1 Tim 2:13-14
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    72%

    13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve;

    14 And Adam was not taken by deceit, but the woman, being tricked, became a wrongdoer.

  • Gen 2:9
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    9 And out of the earth the Lord made every tree to come, delighting the eye and good for food; and in the middle of the garden, the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

  • Gen 4:1
    70%

    1 And the man had connection with Eve his wife, and she became with child and gave birth to Cain, and said, I have got a man from the Lord.

  • Deut 28:17-18
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    17 A curse will be on your basket and on your bread-basin.

    18 A curse will be on the fruit of your body, and on the fruit of your land, on the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.

  • Gen 1:28-29
    2 verses
    69%

    28 And God gave them his blessing and said to them, Be fertile and have increase, and make the earth full and be masters of it; be rulers over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing moving on the earth.

    29 And God said, See, I have given you every plant producing seed, on the face of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit producing seed: they will be for your food:

  • Ps 128:2
    69%

    2 You will have the fruit of the work of your hands: happy will you be, and all will be well for you.

  • Gen 4:7
    69%

    7 If you do well, will you not have honour? and if you do wrong, sin is waiting at the door, desiring to have you, but do not let it be your master.

  • Deut 28:30
    69%

    30 You will take a wife, but another man will have the use of her: the house which your hands have made will never be your resting-place: you will make a vine-garden, and never take the fruit of it.