Genesis 3:18

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Genesis 3:16–20 · Berean Standard Bible

16 To the woman He said: “I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

17 And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

18 Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.

19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground— because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”

20 And Adam named his wife Eve, because she would be the mother of all the living.

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Joshua 23:13

know for sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become for you a snare and a trap, a scourge in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the LORD your God has given you.

Job 5:5

The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from the thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.

Job 31:40

then let briers grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.” Thus conclude the words of Job.

Proverbs 22:5

Thorns and snares lie on the path of the perverse; he who guards his soul stays far from them.

Proverbs 24:31

Thorns had grown up everywhere, thistles had covered the ground, and the stone wall was broken down.

Isaiah 5:6

I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”

Isaiah 7:23

And on that day, in every place that had a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briers and thorns will be found.

Isaiah 32:13

and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers— even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry.

Jeremiah 4:3

For this is what the LORD says to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: “Break up your unplowed ground, and do not sow among the thorns.

Jeremiah 12:13

They have sown wheat but harvested thorns. They have exhausted themselves to no avail. Bear the shame of your harvest because of the fierce anger of the LORD.”

Matthew 13:7

Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the seedlings.

Hebrews 6:8

But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless, and its curse is imminent. In the end it will be burned.

Job 1:21

saying: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.”

Psalms 90:3

You return man to dust, saying, “Return, O sons of mortals.”

Psalms 104:2

He wraps Himself in light as with a garment; He stretches out the heavens like a tent,

Psalms 104:14

He makes the grass grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth:

Psalms 104:15

wine that gladdens the heart of man, oil that makes his face to shine, and bread that sustains his heart.

Romans 14:2

For one person has faith to eat all things, while another, who is weak, eats only vegetables.