Thematic Bible
Genesis 3:1 (show verse)
Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the wild animals that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You can’t eat from any tree in the garden’?”
Genesis 3:2 (show verse)
The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit from the trees in the garden.
Genesis 3:3 (show verse)
But about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God said, ‘You must not eat it or touch it, or you will die.’”
Genesis 3:4 (show verse)
“No! You will not die,” the serpent said to the woman.
Genesis 3:5 (show verse)
“In fact, God knows that when you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
Genesis 3:6 (show verse)
Then the woman saw that the tree was good for food and delightful to look at, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom. So she took some of its fruit and ate it; she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.
Genesis 3:7 (show verse)
Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths for themselves.
Genesis 3:8 (show verse)
Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, and they hid themselves from the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
Genesis 3:9 (show verse)
So the Lord God called out to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”
Genesis 3:10 (show verse)
And he said, “I heard You in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.”
Genesis 3:11 (show verse)
Then He asked, “Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
Genesis 3:12 (show verse)
Then the man replied, “The woman You gave to be with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate.”
Genesis 3:13 (show verse)
So the Lord God asked the woman, “What is this you have done?”
And the woman said, “It was the serpent. He deceived me, and I ate.”
And the woman said, “It was the serpent. He deceived me, and I ate.”
Genesis 3:14 (show verse)
Then the Lord God said to the serpent:
Because you have done this,
you are cursed more than any livestock
and more than any wild animal.
You will move on your belly
and eat dust all the days of your life.
you are cursed more than any livestock
and more than any wild animal.
You will move on your belly
and eat dust all the days of your life.
Genesis 3:15 (show verse)
and between your seed and her seed.
He will strike your head,
and you will strike his heel.
Genesis 3:16 (show verse)
He said to the woman:
I will intensify your labor pains;
you will bear children in anguish.
Your desire will be for your husband,
yet he will rule over you.
you will bear children in anguish.
Your desire
yet he will rule over you.
Genesis 3:17 (show verse)
And He said to Adam, “Because you listened to your wife’s voice and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘Do not eat from it’:
The ground is cursed because of you.
You will eat from it by means of painful labor
all the days of your life.
You will eat from it by means of painful labor
all the days of your life.
Genesis 3:18 (show verse)
and you will eat the plants of the field.
Genesis 3:19 (show verse)
until you return to the ground,
since you were taken from it.
For you are dust,
and you will return to dust.”
Genesis 3:20 (show verse)
Adam named his wife Eve because she was the mother of all the living.
Genesis 3:21 (show verse)
The Lord God made clothing out of skins for Adam and his wife, and He clothed them.
Genesis 3:22 (show verse)
The Lord God said, “Since man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil, he must not reach out, take from the tree of life, eat, and live forever.”
Genesis 3:23 (show verse)
So the Lord God sent him away from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.
Genesis 3:24 (show verse)
He drove man out and stationed the cherubim and the flaming, whirling sword east of the garden of Eden to guard the way to the tree of life.