Genesis 3:18

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It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.

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  • Josh 23:13 : 13 then you can be certain that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become snares and traps for you, whips on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land the LORD your God has given you.
  • Job 1:21 : 21 He said, 'Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I will depart. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; may the name of the LORD be blessed.'
  • Job 5:5 : 5 The hungry devour his harvest, even taking it from among thorns; the thirsty swallow his wealth.
  • Job 31:40 : 40 then let briers grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
  • Ps 90:3 : 3 You turn humankind back to dust, saying, 'Return, O children of man.'
  • Ps 104:2 : 2 You cover Yourself with light as with a garment, stretching out the heavens like a tent curtain.
  • Ps 104:14-15 : 14 He causes the grass to grow for the livestock and plants for people to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth, 15 wine that gladdens human hearts, oil to make their faces shine, and bread that sustains their hearts.
  • Prov 22:5 : 5 Thorns and snares are in the path of the crooked; whoever guards their soul will stay far from them.
  • Prov 24:31 : 31 Thorns had grown all over it, the ground was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.
  • Isa 5:6 : 6 I will make it a wasteland; it will neither be pruned nor hoed, and briers and thorns will grow there. I will also command the clouds not to rain on it.
  • Isa 7:23 : 23 On that day in every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels, there will be only briers and thorns.
  • Isa 32:13 : 13 The land of my people will be covered with thorns and briers, indeed over all the joyful houses in the jubilant city.
  • Jer 4:3 : 3 For this is what the LORD says to the people of Judah and Jerusalem: Break up your unplowed ground, and do not sow among thorns.
  • Jer 12:13 : 13 They have sown wheat but reaped thorns; they have exhausted themselves to no profit. Be ashamed of your harvests because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
  • Matt 13:7 : 7 Other seeds fell among thorns, which grew up and choked them.
  • Rom 14:2 : 2 One person believes they may eat anything, while someone who is weak eats only vegetables.
  • Heb 6:8 : 8 But if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed, and its end is to be burned.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 3:11-17
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    83%

    11 He said, 'Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?'

    12 The man said, 'The woman you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate.'

    13 Then the LORD God said to the woman, 'What is this you have done?' The woman said, 'The serpent deceived me, and I ate.'

    14 So the LORD God said to the serpent, 'Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals. You will crawl on your belly and eat dust all the days of your life.'

    15 'And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.'

    16 To the woman He said, 'I will greatly increase your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.'

    17 To Adam He said, 'Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, "You must not eat from it," cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.'

  • 19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread until you return to the ground, because from it you were taken; for dust you are, and to dust you will return.

  • Gen 3:22-23
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    22 Then the LORD God said, 'Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever—'

    23 So the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.

  • Gen 1:29-30
    2 verses
    76%

    29 Then God said, 'Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that bears fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.

    30 And to all the beasts of the earth, all the birds in the sky, and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.' And it was so.

  • Gen 4:11-12
    2 verses
    76%

    11 'Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.'

    12 'When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.'

  • Gen 1:11-12
    2 verses
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    11 Then God said, 'Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their kinds, on the earth.' And it was so.

    12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.

  • Gen 3:1-3
    3 verses
    73%

    1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, 'Did God really say, you shall not eat from any tree in the garden?'

    2 The woman said to the serpent, 'We may eat the fruit of the trees in the garden.'

    3 'But of the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God said, 'You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.''

  • 23 He will also send rain for the seed you sow in the ground, and the food that comes from the land will be rich and plentiful. On that day your cattle will graze in broad meadows.

  • 30 This will be the sign for you: This year you will eat what grows by itself, and in the second year, what springs from that. But in the third year, sow and reap, plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.

  • 18 Cursed will be the fruit of your womb, the produce of your land, the offspring of your cattle, and the increase of your flocks.

  • Gen 2:15-17
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    71%

    15 The LORD God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden to work it and to take care of it.

    16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, 'You may surely eat from any tree of the garden,'

    17 'but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for on the day you eat from it, you will surely die.'

  • 9 The LORD God caused every tree that is beautiful in appearance and good for food to grow out of the ground, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

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    38 You will sow much seed in the field but gather little, because locusts will consume it.

    39 You will plant vineyards and cultivate them, but you will not drink their wine or gather their grapes, for worms will eat them.

  • 14 He causes the grass to grow for the livestock and plants for people to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth,

  • 25 As for all the hills once cultivated with a hoe, you will no longer go there for fear of the briers and thorns; they will become places where cattle are turned loose and sheep run freely.

  • 29 And this will be a sign for you: This year you will eat what grows by itself, and in the second year, what springs from that. But in the third year, sow and reap, plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.

  • Heb 6:7-8
    2 verses
    71%

    7 For the land that drinks in the rain that often falls on it and produces crops useful to those for whom it is cultivated receives a blessing from God.

    8 But if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed, and its end is to be burned.

  • 5 No bush of the field had yet appeared on the earth, and no plant of the field had sprouted, for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no one to work the ground.

  • 11 Though on the day you plant them you make them grow, and in the morning you make your seed blossom, yet the harvest will be a heap on the day of grief and incurable pain.

  • 2 You will eat the fruit of your labor; you will be blessed, and it will go well with you.

  • 16 Cursed will you be in the city, and cursed will you be in the field.

  • Gen 3:5-6
    2 verses
    69%

    5 'For God knows that on the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.'

    6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate.

  • 3 Every living creature that moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the plants, I now give you everything.

  • 17 Though the fig tree does not blossom and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the sheep are cut off from the fold and there are no cattle in the stalls,

  • 8 They heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden during the breeze of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.

  • 23 For you will have a covenant with the stones of the field, and the beasts of the field will be at peace with you.

  • 28 The soil produces a crop by itself—first the blade, then the head, and then the full grain on the head.

  • 3 For six years, you may sow your field and prune your vineyard, and gather its produce;