Genesis 3:18

KJV1611 – Modern English

Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the herb of the field;

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  • Josh 23:13 : 13 Know for certain that the LORD your God will no longer drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps to you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which the LORD your God has given you.
  • Job 1:21 : 21 And he said, "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD."
  • Job 5:5 : 5 Whose harvest the hungry devour, and take it even out of the thorns, and the thief swallows up their substance.
  • Job 31:40 : 40 Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and weeds instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
  • Ps 90:3 : 3 You turn man to destruction; and say, Return, you children of men.
  • Ps 104:2 : 2 Who covers Yourself with light as with a garment: who stretches out the heavens like a curtain:
  • Ps 104:14-15 : 14 He causes 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 makes glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face shine, and bread which strengthens man's heart.
  • Prov 22:5 : 5 Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse; he who guards his soul shall be far from them.
  • Prov 24:31 : 31 And, behold, it was all overgrown with thorns, its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.
  • Isa 5:6 : 6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor dug; but briers and thorns shall come up: 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 shall be, where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.
  • Isa 32:13 : 13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yes, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
  • Jer 4:3 : 3 For thus says the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your unplowed ground, and sow not among thorns.
  • Jer 12:13 : 13 They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns; they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit. And they shall be ashamed of your harvests because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
  • Matt 13:7 : 7 Some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them.
  • Rom 14:2 : 2 For one believes he may eat all things, but another, who is weak, eats only herbs.
  • Heb 6:8 : 8 But that which bears thorns and thistles is rejected, and is near to being cursed, its end is to be burned.

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  • Gen 3:11-17
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    11 And He said, Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?

    12 And the man said, The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.

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

    14 And the LORD God said to the serpent, Because you have done this, you are cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; on your belly you shall go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life:

    15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.

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

    17 Then to Adam He said, Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat of it: cursed is the ground for your sake; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life;

  • 19 In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for dust you are, and to dust you shall return.

  • Gen 3:22-23
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    22 Then the LORD God said, Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever:

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

  • Gen 1:29-30
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    29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing 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.

    30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for food; and it was so.

  • Gen 4:11-12
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    11 And now you are cursed from the earth, which has opened her mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand;

    12 When you till the ground, it shall no longer yield to you its strength; a fugitive and a wanderer you shall be on the earth.

  • Gen 1:11-12
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    11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth; and it was so.

    12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after its kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after its kind; and God saw that it was good.

  • Gen 3:1-3
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    1 Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, Yes, has God said, You shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

    2 And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:

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

  • 23 Then shall he give the rain for your seed, that you shall sow the ground with; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be rich and plentiful: in that day your cattle shall feed in large pastures.

  • 30 And this shall be a sign to you: You shall eat this year such as grows of itself; and the second year what springs of the same: and in the third year sow, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.

  • 18 Cursed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your land, the increase of your kine, and the flocks of your sheep.

  • Gen 2:15-17
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    15 And the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and to keep it.

    16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, You may freely eat of every tree of the garden;

    17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat: for in the day that you eat from it you shall surely die.

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

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

    39 You shall plant vineyards, and dress them, but shall neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.

  • 14 He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;

  • 25 And on all hills that shall be dug with the mattock, there shall not come the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.

  • 29 And this shall be a sign to you: you shall eat this year what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs of the same; and in the third year, sow and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.

  • Heb 6:7-8
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    7 For the land that drinks in the rain that often comes upon it, and produces crops useful to those for whom it is cultivated, receives blessing from God:

    8 But that which bears thorns and thistles is rejected, and is near to being cursed, its end is to be burned.

  • 5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no man to till the ground.

  • 11 In the day you shall make your plant to grow, and in the morning you shall make your seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and desperate sorrow.

  • 2 For you shall eat the labor of your hands; happy shall you be, and it shall be well with you.

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

  • Gen 3:5-6
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    5 For God knows that in the day you eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be like gods, knowing good and evil.

    6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of the fruit and ate, and gave also to her husband with her; and he ate.

  • 3 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; just as the green herbs, I have given you all things.

  • 17 Though the fig tree shall not blossom, nor fruit be on 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.

  • 8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.

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

  • 28 For the earth yields fruit by itself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.

  • 3 Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather in its fruits;