Genesis 3:17
He told the man, "Because you have listened to what your wife said, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, "You must not eat from it,' cursed is the ground because of you. You'll eat from it through pain-filled labor for the rest of your life.
Genesis 5:29
whom he named Noah, because he said, "May this one comfort us from our work, from pain that is caused by our manual labor, and from the ground that the LORD has cursed."
Romans 8:20-22
because the creation has become subject to futility, though not by anything it did. The one who subjected it did so in the certainty
Job 14:1
Human beings born by women are short-lived and full of trouble.
Ecclesiastes 2:22-23
For what does a person gain from everything that he accomplishes and from his inner life struggles that he undergoes while working on earth?
Genesis 2:16-17
The LORD God commanded the man: "You may freely eat from every tree of the garden,
Genesis 3:6
When the woman saw that the tree produced good food, was attractive in appearance, and was desirable for making one wise, she took some of its fruit and ate it. Then she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate some, too.
Genesis 3:11
"Who told you that you are naked?" Godasked. "Did you eat fruit from the tree that I commanded you not to eat?"
1 Samuel 15:23-24
Indeed, rebellion is the sin of divination, and arrogance is iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected this message from the LORD, he has rejected you from being king."
Job 5:6-7
For wickedness doesn't crop up from dust, nor does trouble sprout out of the ground;
Job 21:17
"How often do the wicked have their lights put out? Does calamity ever fall on them? Will God in his anger ever apportion their destruction?
Psalm 90:7-9
Indeed, we are consumed by your anger and terrified by your wrath.
Psalm 127:2
It is useless to get up early and to stay up late, eating the food of exhausting labor truly he gives sleep to those he loves.
Ecclesiastes 1:2-3
"Utterly pointless," says the Teacher. "Absolutely pointless; everything is pointless."
Ecclesiastes 1:13-14
I dedicated myself to using wisdom for study and discovery of everything that is done under heaven. God uses terrible things so human beings will struggle with life.
Ecclesiastes 2:11
Then I examined all of my accomplishments that I had brought about by my own efforts, including the work that I had labored so hard to complete and it was all pointless, like chasing after the wind, and there was nothing to be gained on earth.
Ecclesiastes 2:17
So I hated life, because whatever is done on earth causes me trouble it's all pointless, like chasing after the wind.
Ecclesiastes 5:17
Furthermore, all his days he lives in darkness with great sorrow, anger, and affliction.
Isaiah 24:5-6
The earth lies defiled beneath its inhabitants; because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant.
Jeremiah 7:23-24
but I did give them this command: "Obey me and I'll be your God, and you will be my people. Walk in all the ways that I command you so it will go well for you.'
Matthew 22:12
He asked him, "Friend, how did you get in here without wedding clothes?' But the man was speechless.
Matthew 25:26-27
"His master answered him, "You evil and lazy servant! So you knew that I harvested where I haven't planted and gathered where I haven't scattered any seed?
Matthew 25:45
Then he will say to them, "I tell all of you with certainty, since you didn't do it for one of the least important of these, you didn't do it for me.'
Luke 19:22
The king told him, "I will judge you by your own words, you evil servant! You knew, did you, that I was a hard man, and that I withdraw what I didn't deposit and harvest what I didn't plant?
John 16:33
I have told you this so that through me you may have peace. In the world you'll have trouble, but be courageous I've overcome the world!"
Romans 3:19
Now we know that whatever the Law says applies to those who are under the Law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.