Genesis 3:17

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Summary

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;

And hast

Genesis 3:6

Genesis 2:16

Jeremiah 7:23

Cursed

In sorrow

John 16:33

General references

Mark 4:7

Bible References

And hast

And 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 the fruit thereof, and did eat; and she gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat.

And Jehovah God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

but this thing I commanded them, saying, Hearken unto my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people; and walk ye in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.

Cursed

and he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, which cometh because of the ground which Jehovah hath cursed.

It is vain for you to rise up early, To take rest late, To eat the bread of toil; For'so he giveth unto his beloved sleep.

Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

The earth also is polluted under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.

For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but by reason of him who subjected it, in hope

In sorrow

For affliction cometh not forth from the dust, Neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;

Man, that is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble.

How oft is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity cometh upon them? That God distributeth sorrows in his anger?

For we are consumed in thine anger, And in thy wrath are we troubled.

For what hath a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, wherein he laboreth under the sun?

All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he is sore vexed, and hath sickness and wrath.

These things have I spoken unto you, that in me ye may have peace. In the world ye have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

General references

And other fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.