Genesis 3:18
It will produce thorns and thistles for you, but you will eat the grain of the field.
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- Josh 23:13 : 13 know for certain that the LORD our God will no longer drive out these nations from before you. They will trap and ensnare you; they will be a whip that tears your sides and thorns that blind your eyes until you disappear from this good land the LORD your God gave you.
- Job 1:21 : 21 He said,“Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return there. The LORD gives, and the LORD takes away. May the name of the LORD be blessed!”
- Job 5:5 : 5 The hungry eat up his harvest, and take it even from behind the thorns, and the thirsty pant for their wealth.
- Job 31:40 : 40 then let thorns sprout up in place of wheat, and in place of barley, weeds!” The words of Job are ended.
- Ps 90:3 : 3 You make mankind return to the dust, and say,“Return, O people!”
- Ps 104:2 : 2 He covers himself with light as if it were a garment. He stretches out the skies like a tent curtain,
- Ps 104:14-15 : 14 He provides grass for the cattle, and crops for people to cultivate, so they can produce food from the ground, 15 as well as wine that makes people feel so good, and so they can have oil to make their faces shine, as well as food that sustains people’s lives.
- Prov 22:5 : 5 Thorns and snares are in the path of the perverse, but the one who guards himself keeps far from them.
- Prov 24:31 : 31 I saw that thorns had grown up all over it, the ground was covered with weeds, and its stone wall was broken down.
- Isa 5:6 : 6 I will make it a wasteland; no one will prune its vines or hoe its ground, and thorns and briers will grow there. I will order the clouds not to drop any rain on it.
- Isa 7:23 : 23 At that time every place where there had been a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels will be overrun with thorns and briers.
- Isa 32:13 : 13 Mourn over the land of my people, which is overgrown with thorns and briers, and over all the once-happy houses in the city filled with revelry.
- Jer 4:3 : 3 Yes, this is what the LORD has said to the people of Judah and Jerusalem:“Break up your unplowed ground, do not cast seeds among thorns.
- Jer 12:13 : 13 My people will sow wheat, but will harvest weeds. They will work until they are exhausted, but will get nothing from it. They will be disappointed in their harvests because the LORD will take them away in his fierce anger.
- Matt 13:7 : 7 Other seeds fell among the thorns, and they grew up and choked them.
- Rom 14:2 : 2 One person believes in eating everything, but the weak person eats only vegetables.
- Heb 6:8 : 8 But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is useless and about to be cursed; its fate is to be burned.
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- Gen 3:11-177 verses83%
11 And the LORD God said,“Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
12 The man said,“The woman whom you gave me, she gave me some fruit from the tree and I ate it.”
13 So the LORD God said to the woman,“What is this you have done?” And the woman replied,“The serpent tricked me, and I ate.”
14 The LORD God said to the serpent,“Because you have done this, cursed are you above all the cattle and all the living creatures of the field! On your belly you will crawl and dust you will eat all the days of your life.
15 And I will put hostility between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring; her offspring will attack your head, and you will attack her offspring’s heel.”
16 To the woman he said,“I will greatly increase your labor pains; with pain you will give birth to children. You will want to control your husband, but he will dominate you.”
17 But to Adam he said,“Because you obeyed your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you,‘You must not eat from it,’ the ground is cursed because of you; in painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
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19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return.”
- Gen 3:22-232 verses77%
22 And the LORD God said,“Now that the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, he must not be allowed to stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”
23 So the LORD God expelled him from the orchard in Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken.
- Gen 1:29-302 verses76%
29 Then God said,“I now give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the entire earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.
30 And to all the animals of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to all the creatures that move on the ground– everything that has the breath of life in it– I give every green plant for food.” It was so.
- Gen 4:11-122 verses76%
11 So now, you are banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.
12 When you try to cultivate the ground it will no longer yield its best for you. You will be a homeless wanderer on the earth.”
- Gen 1:11-122 verses73%
11 God said,“Let the land produce vegetation: plants yielding seeds and trees on the land bearing fruit with seed in it, according to their kinds.” It was so.
12 The land produced vegetation– plants yielding seeds according to their kinds, and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. God saw that it was good.
- Gen 3:1-33 verses73%
1 The Temptation and the Fall Now the serpent was more shrewd than any of the wild animals that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman,“Is it really true that God said,‘You must not eat from any tree of the orchard’?”
2 The woman said to the serpent,“We may eat of the fruit from the trees of the orchard;
3 but concerning the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the orchard God said,‘You must not eat from it, and you must not touch it, or else you will die.’”
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23 He will water the seed you plant in the ground, and the ground will produce crops in abundance. At that time your cattle will graze in wide pastures.
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30 “This will be your reminder that I have spoken the truth: This year you will eat what grows wild, and next year what grows on its own. But the year after that you will plant seed and harvest crops; you will plant vines and consume their produce.
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18 Your children will be cursed, as well as the produce of your soil, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks.
- Gen 2:15-173 verses71%
15 The LORD God took the man and placed him in the orchard in Eden to care for it and to maintain it.
16 Then the LORD God commanded the man,“You may freely eat fruit from every tree of the orchard,
17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will surely die.”
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9 The LORD God made all kinds of trees grow from the soil, every tree that was pleasing to look at and good for food.(Now the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil were in the middle of the orchard.)
- Deut 28:38-392 verses71%
38 The Curse of Reversed Status“You will take much seed to the field but gather little harvest, because locusts will consume it.
39 You will plant vineyards and cultivate them, but you will not drink wine or gather in grapes, because worms will eat them.
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14 He provides grass for the cattle, and crops for people to cultivate, so they can produce food from the ground,
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25 They will stay away from all the hills that were cultivated, for fear of the thorns and briers. Cattle will graze there and sheep will trample on them.
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29 This will be your confirmation that I have spoken the truth: This year you will eat what grows wild, and next year what grows on its own from that. But in the third year you will plant seed and harvest crops; you will plant vines and consume their produce.
- Heb 6:7-82 verses71%
7 For the ground that has soaked up the rain that frequently falls on it and yields useful vegetation for those who tend it receives a blessing from God.
8 But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is useless and about to be cursed; its fate is to be burned.
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5 Now no shrub of the field had yet grown on the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.
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11 The day you begin cultivating, you do what you can to make it grow; the morning you begin planting, you do what you can to make it sprout. Yet the harvest will disappear in the day of disease and incurable pain.
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2 You will eat what you worked so hard to grow. You will be blessed and secure.
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16 You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the field.
- Gen 3:5-62 verses69%
5 for God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will open and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
6 When the woman saw that the tree produced fruit that was good for food, was attractive to the eye, and was desirable for making one wise, she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some of it to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.
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3 You may eat any moving thing that lives. As I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.
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17 When the fig tree does not bud, and there are no grapes on the vines; when the olive trees do not produce, and the fields yield no crops; when the sheep disappear from the pen, and there are no cattle in the stalls,
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8 The Judgment Oracles of God at the Fall Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God moving about in the orchard at the breezy time of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the orchard.
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23 For you will have a pact with the stones of the field, and the wild animals will be at peace with you.
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28 By itself the soil produces a crop, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head.
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3 Six years you may sow your field, and six years you may prune your vineyard and gather the produce,