Genesis 3:22

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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.”

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  • Gen 1:26 : 26 Then God said,“Let us make humankind in our image, after our likeness, so they may rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move on the earth.”
  • Gen 2:9 : 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.)
  • Gen 3:5 : 5 for God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will open and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
  • Gen 11:6-7 : 6 And the LORD said,“If as one people all sharing a common language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be beyond them. 7 Come, let’s go down and confuse their language so they won’t be able to understand each other.”
  • Prov 3:18 : 18 She is like a tree of life to those who grasp onto her, and everyone who takes hold of her will be blessed.
  • John 6:48-58 : 48 I am the bread of life. 49 Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. 50 This is the bread that has come down from heaven, so that a person may eat from it and not die. 51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats from this bread he will live forever. The bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.” 52 Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus began to argue with one another,“How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” 53 Jesus said to them,“I tell you the solemn truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in yourselves. 54 The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. 55 For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. 56 The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood resides in me, and I in him. 57 Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so the one who consumes me will live because of me. 58 This is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the bread your ancestors ate, but then later died. The one who eats this bread will live forever.”
  • Rev 2:7 : 7 The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers, I will permit him to eat from the tree of life that is in the paradise of God.’
  • Rev 22:2 : 2 flowing down the middle of the city’s main street. On each side of the river is the tree of life producing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month of the year. Its leaves are for the healing of the nations.
  • Rev 22:14 : 14 Blessed are those who wash their robes so they can have access to the tree of life and can enter into the city by the gates.
  • Isa 19:12-13 : 12 But where, oh where, are your wise men? Let them tell you, let them find out what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies has planned for Egypt. 13 The officials of Zoan are fools, the officials of Memphis are misled; the rulers of her tribes lead Egypt astray.
  • Isa 47:12-13 : 12 Persist in trusting your amulets and your many incantations, which you have faithfully recited since your youth! Maybe you will be successful– maybe you will scare away disaster. 13 You are tired out from listening to so much advice. Let them take their stand– the ones who see omens in the sky, who gaze at the stars, who make monthly predictions– let them rescue you from the disaster that is about to overtake you!
  • Jer 22:23 : 23 You may feel as secure as a bird nesting in the cedars of Lebanon. But oh how you will groan when the pains of judgment come on you. They will be like those of a woman giving birth to a baby.
  • Ps 22:26 : 26 Let the oppressed eat and be filled! Let those who seek his help praise the LORD! May you live forever!

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 3:1-13
    13 verses
    84%

    1The 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’?”

    2The woman said to the serpent,“We may eat of the fruit from the trees of the orchard;

    3but 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.’”

    4The serpent said to the woman,“Surely you will not die,

    5for God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will open and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

    6When 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.

    7Then the eyes of both of them opened, and they knew they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

    8The 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.

    9But the LORD God called to the man and said to him,“Where are you?”

    10The man replied,“I heard you moving about in the orchard, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.”

    11And 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?”

    12The man said,“The woman whom you gave me, she gave me some fruit from the tree and I ate it.”

    13So the LORD God said to the woman,“What is this you have done?” And the woman replied,“The serpent tricked me, and I ate.”

  • Gen 3:23-24
    2 verses
    81%

    23So the LORD God expelled him from the orchard in Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken.

    24When he drove the man out, he placed on the eastern side of the orchard in Eden angelic sentries who used the flame of a whirling sword to guard the way to the tree of life.

  • Gen 2:15-19
    5 verses
    80%

    15The LORD God took the man and placed him in the orchard in Eden to care for it and to maintain it.

    16Then the LORD God commanded the man,“You may freely eat fruit from every tree of the orchard,

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

    18The LORD God said,“It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a companion for him who corresponds to him.”

    19The LORD God formed out of the ground every living animal of the field and every bird of the air. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them, and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.

  • Gen 3:17-21
    5 verses
    79%

    17But 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.

    18It will produce thorns and thistles for you, but you will eat the grain of the field.

    19By 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.”

    20The man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.

    21The LORD God made garments from skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them.

  • Gen 2:7-9
    3 verses
    79%

    7The LORD God formed the man from the soil of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

    8The LORD God planted an orchard in the east, in Eden; and there he placed the man he had formed.

    9The 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.)

  • Gen 1:26-28
    3 verses
    72%

    26Then God said,“Let us make humankind in our image, after our likeness, so they may rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move on the earth.”

    27God created humankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them, male and female he created them.

    28God blessed them and said to them,“Be fruitful and multiply! Fill the earth and subdue it! Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the ground.”

  • Gen 2:25
    71%

    25The man and his wife were both naked, but they were not ashamed.

  • Gen 5:1
    71%

    1From Adam to Noah This is the record of the family line of Adam.When God created humankind, he made them in the likeness of God.

  • Gen 2:21-23
    3 verses
    70%

    21So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he was asleep, he took part of the man’s side and closed up the place with flesh.

    22Then the LORD God made a woman from the part he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

    23Then the man said,“This one at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one will be called‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”

  • Job 28:28
    69%

    28And he said to mankind,‘The fear of the LORD– that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.’”

  • Gen 4:1
    69%

    1The Story of Cain and Abel Now the man was intimate with his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. Then she said,“I have created a man just as the LORD did!”

  • Gen 6:3
    69%

    3So the LORD said,“My Spirit will not remain in humankind indefinitely, since they are mortal. They will remain for 120 more years.”