Genesis 3:17
And to Adam he said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;
Genesis 5:29
and called his name Noah, saying, "Out of the ground that the LORD has cursed this one shall bring us relief from our work and from the painful toil of our hands."
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 a woman is few of days and full of trouble.
Ecclesiastes 2:22-23
What has a man from all the toil and striving of heart with which he toils beneath the sun?
Genesis 2:16-17
And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, "You may surely eat of every tree of the garden,
Genesis 3:6
So 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 also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.
Genesis 3:11
He said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?"
1 Samuel 15:23-24
For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and presumption 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 it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity comes upon them? That God distributes pains in his anger?
Psalm 90:7-9
For we are brought to an end by your anger; by your wrath we are dismayed.
Psalm 127:2
It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep.
Ecclesiastes 1:2-3
Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 1:13-14
And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven. It is an unhappy business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with.
Ecclesiastes 2:11
Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 2:17
So I hated life, because what is done under the sun was grievous to me, for all is vanity and a striving after wind.
Ecclesiastes 5:17
Moreover, all his days he eats in darkness in much vexation and sickness and anger.
Isaiah 24:5-6
The earth lies defiled under its inhabitants; for they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.
Jeremiah 7:23-24
But this command I gave them: 'Obey 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.'
Matthew 22:12
And he said to him, 'Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?' And he was speechless.
Matthew 25:26-27
But his master answered him, 'You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed?
Matthew 25:45
Then he will answer them, saying, 'Truly, I say to you, as 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, 'I will condemn you with your own words, you wicked servant! You knew that I was a severe man, taking what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow?
John 16:33
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; 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 stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God.