Genesis 3:17

World English Bible (2000)

To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

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  • Rom 8:20-22 : 20 For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope 21 that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God. 22 For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.
  • Gen 5:29 : 29 and he named him Noah, saying, "This same will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, because of the ground which Yahweh has cursed."
  • Eccl 2:22-23 : 22 For what has a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, in which he labors under the sun? 23 For all his days are sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.
  • Job 14:1 : 1 "Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
  • Matt 25:26-27 : 26 "But his lord answered him, 'You wicked and slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I didn't sow, and gather where I didn't scatter. 27 You ought therefore to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my own with interest.
  • Matt 25:45 : 45 "Then he will answer them, saying, 'Most certainly I tell you, inasmuch as you didn't do it to one of the least of these, you didn't do it to me.'
  • Luke 19:22 : 22 "He said to him, 'Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn't lay down, and reaping that which I didn't sow.
  • John 16:33 : 33 I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world."
  • Rom 3:19 : 19 Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.
  • Job 21:17 : 17 "How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?
  • Ps 90:7-9 : 7 For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath. 8 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence. 9 For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.
  • Ps 127:2 : 2 It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil; for he gives sleep to his loved ones.
  • Eccl 1:2-3 : 2 "Vanity of vanities," says the Preacher; "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity." 3 What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?
  • Eccl 1:13-14 : 13 I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with. 14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.
  • Eccl 2:11 : 11 Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
  • Eccl 2:17 : 17 So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.
  • Eccl 5:17 : 17 All his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath.
  • Isa 24:5-6 : 5 The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant. 6 Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell therein are found guilty. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
  • Jer 7:23-24 : 23 but this thing I commanded them, saying, Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people; and walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you. 24 But they didn't listen nor turn their ear, but walked in [their own] counsels [and] in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
  • Matt 22:12 : 12 and he said to him, 'Friend, how did you come in here not wearing wedding clothing?' He was speechless.
  • 1 Sam 15:23-24 : 23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected the word of Yahweh, he has also rejected you from being king." 24 Saul said to Samuel, "I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of Yahweh, and your words, because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.
  • Job 5:6-7 : 6 For affliction doesn't come forth from the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground; 7 but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
  • Gen 2:16-17 : 16 Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it; for in the day that you eat of it you will surely die."
  • Gen 3:6 : 6 When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.
  • Gen 3:11 : 11 God said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?"

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  • Gen 3:1-16
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    1 Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, "Has God really said, 'You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?'"

    2 The woman said to the serpent, "Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat,

    3 but of the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.'"

    4 The serpent said to the woman, "You won't surely die,

    5 for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."

    6 When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.

    7 The eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

    8 They heard the voice of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.

    9 Yahweh God called to the man, and said to him, "Where are you?"

    10 The man said, "I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself."

    11 God 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 whom you gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate."

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

    14 Yahweh God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above every animal of the field. On your belly you shall go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.

    15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel."

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

  • Gen 3:18-23
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    18 Thorns also and thistles will it bring forth to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.

    19 By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."

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

    21 Yahweh God made coats of skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them.

    22 Yahweh God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he put forth his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever..."

    23 Therefore Yahweh God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.

  • Gen 2:15-17
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    15 Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

    16 Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat;

    17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it; for in the day that you eat of it you will surely die."

  • Gen 4:11-12
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    11 Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.

    12 From now on, when you till the ground, it won't yield its strength to you. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth."

  • Gen 2:23-24
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    23 The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called 'woman,' because she was taken out of Man."

    24 Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

  • 1 Tim 2:13-14
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    13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve.

    14 Adam wasn't deceived, but the woman, being deceived, has fallen into disobedience;

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    9 Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow 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 the knowledge of good and evil.

  • Gen 4:1
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    1 The man knew Eve his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, "I have gotten a man with Yahweh's help."

  • Deut 28:17-18
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    17 Your basket and your kneading trough shall be cursed.

    18 The fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock shall be cursed.

  • Gen 1:28-29
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    28 God blessed them. God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

    29 God said, "Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.

  • Ps 128:2
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    2 For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.

  • Gen 4:7
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    7 If you do well, will it not be lifted up? If you don't do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it."

  • Deut 28:30
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    30 You shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not use its fruit.