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 desirable to the eyes, and a tree of covetousness to understand, she took of its fruit and ate and gave also unto her husband with her; and he ate.

And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou may freely eat;

But this thing I commanded them, saying, Hear my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the way that I have commanded you that it may be well unto you.

Cursed

and he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands because of the ground which the LORD has cursed.

It is vain for you to rise up early, to come home late, to eat the bread of sorrows, because he shall give his beloved sleep.

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

At last I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought and on the labour that I had laboured to do; and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

The earth is also become bankrupt under its inhabitants because they have transgressed the laws, falsified the order, broken the everlasting covenant.

For the creatures were subjected to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who has subjected them,

In sorrow

For the iniquity does not come forth out of the dust; neither does chastisement spring up out of the ground;

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

How often is the lamp of the wicked put out and their destruction comes upon them, and God distributes sorrows upon them in his anger.

For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath we are troubled.

For what does man have of all his labour and of the vexation of his heart in which he has laboured under the sun?

In addition to this, all the days of his life he shall eat in darkness, with much wrath and pain and sorrow sickness.

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

General references

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