Genesis 3:17 Cross References

Genesis 3:17

17: And to Adam he said, "Because you listened to your wife and ate the fruit I told you not to eat, I have placed a curse on the ground. All your life you will struggle to scratch a living from it.

Romans 8:20

  1. Against its will, everything on earth was subjected to God's curse.
  2. All creation anticipates the day when it will join God's children in glorious freedom from death and decay.
  3. For we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.

Genesis 5:29

  1. Lamech named his son Noah, for he said, "He will bring us relief from the painful labor of farming this ground that the LORD has cursed."

Isaiah 24:5

  1. The earth suffers for the sins of its people, for they have twisted the instructions of God, violated his laws, and broken his everlasting covenant.
  2. Therefore, a curse consumes the earth and its people. They are left desolate, destroyed by fire. Few will be left alive.

Ecclesiastes 2:22

  1. So what do people get for all their hard work?
  2. Their days of labor are filled with pain and grief; even at night they cannot rest. It is all utterly meaningless.

Psalms 127:2

  1. It is useless for you to work so hard from early morning until late at night, anxiously working for food to eat; for God gives rest to his loved ones.

Job 14:1

  1. "How frail is humanity! How short is life, and how full of trouble!

Ecclesiastes 2:17

  1. So now I hate life because everything done here under the sun is so irrational. Everything is meaningless, like chasing the wind.

John 16:33

  1. I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world."

Job 5:6

  1. But evil does not spring from the soil, and trouble does not sprout from the earth.
  2. People are born for trouble as predictably as sparks fly upward from a fire.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

  1. "Everything is meaningless," says the Teacher, "utterly meaningless!"
  2. What do people get for all their hard work?

Genesis 2:16

  1. But the LORD God gave him this warning: "You may freely eat any fruit in the garden
  2. except fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If you eat of its fruit, you will surely die."

Ecclesiastes 5:17

  1. Throughout their lives, they live under a cloud--frustrated, discouraged, and angry.

Ecclesiastes 2:11

  1. But as I looked at everything I had worked so hard to accomplish, it was all so meaningless. It was like chasing the wind. There was nothing really worthwhile anywhere.

Job 21:17

  1. "Yet the wicked get away with it time and time again. They rarely have trouble, and God skips them when he distributes sorrows in his anger.

Matthew 25:26

  1. "But the master replied, 'You wicked and lazy servant! You think I'm a hard man, do you, harvesting crops I didn't plant and gathering crops I didn't cultivate?
  2. Well, you should at least have put my money into the bank so I could have some interest.

Luke 19:22

  1. "'You wicked servant!' the king roared. 'Hard, am I? If you knew so much about me and how tough I am,

Matthew 25:45

  1. And he will answer, 'I assure you, when you refused to help the least of these my brothers and sisters, you were refusing to help me.'

Genesis 3:6

  1. The woman was convinced. The fruit looked so fresh and delicious, and it would make her so wise! So she ate some of the fruit. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her. Then he ate it, too.

Romans 3:19

  1. Obviously, the law applies to those to whom it was given, for its purpose is to keep people from having excuses and to bring the entire world into judgment before God.

1 Samuel 15:23

  1. Rebellion is as bad as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as bad as worshiping idols. So because you have rejected the word of the LORD, he has rejected you from being king."
  2. Then Saul finally admitted, "Yes, I have sinned. I have disobeyed your instructions and the LORD's command, for I was afraid of the people and did what they demanded.

Jeremiah 7:23

  1. This is what I told them: `Obey me, and I will be your God, and you will be my people. Only do as I say, and all will be well!'
  2. "But my people would not listen to me. They kept on doing whatever they wanted, following the stubborn desires of their evil hearts. They went backward instead of forward.

Genesis 3:11

  1. "Who told you that you were naked?" the LORD God asked. "Have you eaten the fruit I commanded you not to eat?"

Ecclesiastes 1:13

  1. I devoted myself to search for understanding and to explore by wisdom everything being done in the world. I soon discovered that God has dealt a tragic existence to the human race.
  2. Everything under the sun is meaningless, like chasing the wind.

Psalms 90:7

  1. We wither beneath your anger; we are overwhelmed by your fury.
  2. You spread out our sins before you--our secret sins--and you see them all.
  3. We live our lives beneath your wrath. We end our lives with a groan.

Matthew 22:12

  1. 'Friend,' he asked, 'how is it that you are here without wedding clothes?' And the man had no reply.
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