Genesis 3:17

Romans 8:20-22

For the Creation fell into subjection to failure and unreality (not of its own choice, but by the will of Him who so subjected it)

Matthew 22:12

"'My friend,' he said, 'how is it that you came in here without a wedding robe?'

Matthew 25:26-27

"'You wicked and slothful servant,' replied his master, 'did you know that I reap where I have not sown, and garner what I have not winnowed?

Matthew 25:45

"But he will reply, "'In solemn truth I tell you that in so far as you withheld such services from one of the humblest of these, you withheld them from me.'

Luke 19:22

"'By your own words,' he replied, 'I will judge you, you bad servant. You knew me to be a severe man, taking up what I did not lay down, and reaping what I did not sow:

John 16:33

"I have spoken all this to you in order that in me you may have peace. In the world you have affliction. But keep up your courage: *I* have won the victory over the world."

Romans 3:19

But it cannot be denied that all that the Law says is addressed to those who are living under the Law, in order that every mouth may be stopped, and that the whole world may await sentence from God.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Genesis 3:17

And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

Cursed

Romans 8:20

In sorrow

John 16:33

General references

Mark 4:7

Bible References

Cursed

For the Creation fell into subjection to failure and unreality (not of its own choice, but by the will of Him who so subjected it)

In sorrow

"I have spoken all this to you in order that in me you may have peace. In the world you have affliction. But keep up your courage: *I* have won the victory over the world."

General references

Some, again, falls among the thorns; and the thorns spring up and stifle it, so that it yields no crop.