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 pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

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

But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people: and walk you in all the ways 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 sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he gives his beloved sleep.

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

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had made, and on the labor that I had expended on it: and, behold, all was vanity and like grasping the wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

The earth also is defiled under its inhabitants; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

For the creation was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who has subjected the same in hope,

In sorrow

For affliction comes not forth from the dust, neither does trouble spring 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 how often comes their destruction upon them! God distributes sorrows in his anger.

For we are consumed by your anger, and by your wrath are we troubled.

For what has man for all his labor, and for the striving of his heart, with which he has labored under the sun?

All his days also he eats in darkness, and he has much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.

These things I have spoken unto you, that in me you might have peace. In the world you 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.