Genesis 3:18

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • Josh 23:13 : 13 Then you may be certain that the Lord your God will not go on driving these nations out from before you; but they will become a danger and a cause of sin to you, a whip for your sides and thorns in your eyes, till you are cut off from this good land which the Lord your God has given you.
  • Job 1:21 : 21 With nothing I came out of my mother's body, and with nothing I will go back there; the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; let the Lord's name be praised.
  • Job 5:5 : 5 Their produce is taken by him who has no food, and their grain goes to the poor, and he who is in need of water gets it from their spring.
  • Job 31:40 : 40 Then in place of grain let thorns come up, and in place of barley evil-smelling plants.
  • Ps 90:3 : 3 You send man back to his dust; and say, Go back, you children of men.
  • Ps 104:2 : 2 You are clothed with light as with a robe; stretching out the heavens like a curtain:
  • Ps 104:14-15 : 14 He makes the grass come up for the cattle, and plants for the use of man; so that bread may come out of the earth; 15 And wine to make glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face shining, and bread giving strength to his heart.
  • Prov 22:5 : 5 Thorns and nets are in the way of the twisted: he who keeps watch over his soul will be far from them.
  • Prov 24:31 : 31 And it was all full of thorns, and covered with waste plants, and its stone wall was broken down.
  • Isa 5:6 : 6 And I will make it waste; its branches will not be touched with the knife, or the earth worked with the spade; but blackberries and thorns will come up in it: and I will give orders to the clouds not to send rain on it.
  • Isa 7:23 : 23 And it will be in that day that in every place where before there were a thousand vines valued at a thousand shekels of silver, there will be nothing but blackberries and thorns.
  • Isa 32:13 : 13 And for the land of my people, where thorns will come up; even for all the houses of joy in the glad town.
  • Jer 4:3 : 3 For this is what the Lord says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem: Get your unworked land ploughed up, do not put in your seeds among thorns.
  • Jer 12:13 : 13 Though good grain was planted, they have got in thorns: they have given themselves pain without profit: they will be shamed on account of their produce, because of the burning wrath of the Lord.
  • Matt 13:7 : 7 And some seeds went among thorns, and the thorns came up and they had no room for growth:
  • Rom 14:2 : 2 One man has faith to take all things as food: another who is feeble in faith takes only green food.
  • Heb 6:8 : 8 But if it sends up thorns and evil plants, it is of no use and is ready to be cursed; its only end is to be burned.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 3:11-17
    7 verses
    83%

    11And 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?

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

    13And 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.

    14And 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:

    15And 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.

    16To 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.

    17And 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.

  • Gen 3:19
    82%

    19With 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.

  • Gen 3:22-23
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    77%

    22And 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.

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

  • Gen 1:29-30
    2 verses
    76%

    29And 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:

    30And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the air and every living thing moving on the face of the earth I have given every green plant for food: and it was so.

  • Gen 4:11-12
    2 verses
    76%

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

    12No 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 1:11-12
    2 verses
    73%

    11And God said, Let grass come up on the earth, and plants producing seed, and fruit-trees giving fruit, in which is their seed, after their sort: and it was so.

    12And grass came up on the earth, and every plant producing seed of its sort, and every tree producing fruit, in which is its seed, of its sort: and God saw that it was good.

  • Gen 3:1-3
    3 verses
    73%

    1Now 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?

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

    3But 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.

  • Isa 30:23
    72%

    23And he will give rain for your seed, so that you may put it in the earth; and you will have bread from the produce of the earth, good and more than enough for your needs: in that day the cattle will get their food in wide grass-lands.

  • Isa 37:30
    72%

    30And this will be the sign to you: you will get your food this year from what comes up of itself, and in the second year from the produce of the same; and in the third year you will put in your seed, and get in the grain, and make vine-gardens, and take of their fruit.

  • Deut 28:18
    72%

    18A 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 2:15-17
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    71%

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

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

    17But 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 2:9
    71%

    9And 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.

  • Deut 28:38-39
    2 verses
    71%

    38You will take much seed out into the field, and get little in; for the locust will get it.

    39You will put in vines and take care of them, but you will get no wine or grapes from them; for they will be food for worms.

  • Ps 104:14
    71%

    14He makes the grass come up for the cattle, and plants for the use of man; so that bread may come out of the earth;

  • Isa 7:25
    71%

    25And they will send out the oxen and the sheep on all the hills which before were worked with the spade, ... fear of blackberries and thorns.

  • 2 Kgs 19:29
    71%

    29And this will be the sign to you: you will get your food this year from what comes up of itself; and in the second year from the produce of the same; and in the third year you will put in your seed and get in the grain and make vine-gardens and take of their fruit.

  • Heb 6:7-8
    2 verses
    71%

    7For a land, drinking in the frequent rain and producing good plants for those for whom it is worked, has a blessing from God:

    8But if it sends up thorns and evil plants, it is of no use and is ready to be cursed; its only end is to be burned.

  • Gen 2:5
    70%

    5In the day when the Lord God made earth and heaven there were no plants of the field on the earth, and no grass had come up: for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to do work on the land.

  • Isa 17:11
    70%

    11In the day of your planting you were watching its growth, and in the morning your seed was flowering: but its fruit is wasted away in the day of grief and bitter sorrow.

  • Ps 128:2
    70%

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

  • Deut 28:16
    70%

    16You will be cursed in the town and cursed in the field.

  • Gen 3:5-6
    2 verses
    69%

    5For 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.

    6And 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 9:3
    69%

    3Every living and moving thing will be food for you; I give them all to you as before I gave you all green things.

  • Hab 3:17
    69%

    17For though the fig-tree has no flowers, and there is no fruit on the vine, and work on the olive comes to nothing, and the fields give no food; and the flock is cut off from its resting-place, and there is no herd in the cattle-house:

  • Gen 3:8
    69%

    8And 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.

  • Job 5:23
    69%

    23For you will be in agreement with the stones of the earth, and the beasts of the field will be at peace with you.

  • Mark 4:28
    69%

    28The earth gives fruit by herself; first the leaf, then the head, then the full grain.

  • Lev 25:3
    69%

    3For six years put seed into your land, and for six years give care to your vines and get in the produce of them;