Genesis 3:17

God Pronounces Judgment

¹⁶ To the woman He said,
“I will greatly multiply
Your pain in childbirth,
In pain you will bring forth children;
Yet your desire will be for your husband,
And he will rule over you.”
¹⁷ Then to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it’;
Cursed is the ground because of you;
In toil you will eat of it
All the days of your life.
¹⁸ “Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you;
And you will eat the plants of the field;

Cursed is the Ground

In Labor

Adam

Genesis 5:29

Now he called his name Noah, saying, “This one will give us rest from our work and from the toil of our hands arising from the ground which the Lord has cursed.”

Romans 8:20-22

For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope

Job 14:1

“Man, who is born of woman,
Is short-lived and full of turmoil.

Ecclesiastes 2:22-23

For what does a man get in all his labor and in his striving with which he labors under the sun?

Genesis 2:16-17

The Lord God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may eat freely;

Genesis 3:6

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 desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.

Genesis 3:11

And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?”

1 Samuel 15:23-24

“For rebellion is as the sin of divination,
And insubordination is as iniquity and idolatry.
Because you have rejected the word of the Lord,
He has also rejected you from being king.”

Job 5:6-7

“For affliction does not come from the dust,
Nor does trouble sprout from the ground,

Job 21:17

“How often is the lamp of the wicked put out,
Or does their calamity fall on them?
Does God apportion destruction in His anger?

Psalm 90:7-9

For we have been consumed by Your anger
And by Your wrath we have been dismayed.

Psalm 127:2

It is vain for you to rise up early,
To retire late,
To eat the bread of painful labors;
For He gives to His beloved even in his sleep.

Ecclesiastes 1:2-3

“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher,
“Vanity of vanities! All is vanity.”

Ecclesiastes 1:13-14

And I set my mind to seek and explore by wisdom concerning all that has been done under heaven. It is a grievous task which God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Thus I considered all my activities which my hands had done and the labor which I had exerted, and behold all was vanity and striving after wind and there was no profit under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:17

So I hated life, for the work which had been done under the sun was grievous to me; because everything is futility and striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 5:17

Throughout his life he also eats in darkness with great vexation, sickness and anger.

Isaiah 24:5-6

The earth is also polluted by its inhabitants, for they transgressed laws, violated statutes, broke the everlasting covenant.

Jeremiah 7:23-24

But this is what I commanded them, saying, ‘Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you will be My people; and you will walk in all the way which I command you, that it may be well with you.’

Matthew 22:12

and he *said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here without wedding clothes?’ And the man was speechless.

Matthew 25:26-27

“But his master answered and said to him, ‘You wicked, lazy slave, you knew that I reap where I did not sow and gather where I scattered no seed.

Matthew 25:45

Then He will answer them, ‘Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.’

Luke 19:22

He *said to him, ‘By your own words I will judge you, you worthless slave. Did you know that I am an exacting man, taking up what I did not lay down and reaping what I did not sow?

John 16:33

These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.”

Romans 3:19

Now we know that whatever the Law says, it speaks to those who are under the Law, so that every mouth may be closed and all the world may become accountable to God;