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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Gen 3:17 — 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;
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Because
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1Sa 15:23,24; Mat 22:12; Mat 25:26,27,45; Luk 19:22; Rom 3:19 |
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and hast
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Gen 3:6,11; Gen 2:16,17; Jer 7:23,24 |
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cursed
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Gen 5:29; Psa 127:2; Ecc 1:2,3,13,14; Ecc 2:11,17; Isa 24:5,6; Rom 8:20-22 |
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in sorrow
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Job 5:6,7; Job 14:1; Job 21:17; Psa 90:7-9; Ecc 2:22,23; Ecc 5:17; Jhn 16:33 |
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1Sa 15:23 |
For rebellion [is as] the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness [is as] iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from [being] king. |
  
  
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1Sa 15:24 |
And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned: for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD, and thy words: because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice. |
  
  
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Mat 22:12 |
And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless. |
  
  
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Mat 25:26 |
His lord answered and said unto him, [Thou] wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed: |
  
  
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Mat 25:27 |
Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and [then] at my coming I should have received mine own with usury. |
  
  
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Mat 25:45 |
Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did [it] not to one of the least of these, ye did [it] not to me. |
  
  
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Luk 19:22 |
And he saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, [thou] wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow: |
  
  
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Rom 3:19 |
Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. |
  
  
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Gen 3:6 |
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. |
  
  
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Gen 3:11 |
And he said, Who told thee that thou [wast] naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? |
  
  
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Gen 2:16 |
And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: |
  
  
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Gen 2:17 |
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. |
  
  
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Jer 7:23 |
But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you. |
  
  
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Jer 7:24 |
But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels [and] in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward. |
  
  
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Gen 5:29 |
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 hath cursed. |
  
  
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Psa 127:2 |
[It is] vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: [for] so he giveth his beloved sleep. |
  
  
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Ecc 1:2 |
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all [is] vanity. |
  
  
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Ecc 1:3 |
What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? |
  
  
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Ecc 1:13 |
And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all [things] that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith. |
  
  
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Ecc 1:14 |
I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all [is] vanity and vexation of spirit. |
  
  
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Ecc 2:11 |
Then 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. |
  
  
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Ecc 2:17 |
Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun [is] grievous unto me: for all [is] vanity and vexation of spirit. |
  
  
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Isa 24:5 |
The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. |
  
  
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Isa 24:6 |
Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left. |
  
  
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Rom 8:20 |
For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected [the same] in hope, |
  
  
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Rom 8:21 |
Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. |
  
  
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Rom 8:22 |
For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. |
  
  
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Job 5:6 |
Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; |
  
  
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Job 5:7 |
Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. |
  
  
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Job 14:1 |
Man [that is] born of a woman [is] of few days, and full of trouble. |
  
  
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Job 21:17 |
How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and [how oft] cometh their destruction upon them! [God] distributeth sorrows in his anger. |
  
  
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Psa 90:7 |
For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. |
  
  
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Psa 90:8 |
Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret [sins] in the light of thy countenance. |
  
  
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Psa 90:9 |
For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale [that is told]. |
  
  
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Ecc 2:22 |
For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun? |
  
  
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Ecc 2:23 |
For all his days [are] sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity. |
  
  
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Ecc 5:17 |
All his days also he eateth in darkness, and [he hath] much sorrow and wrath with his sickness. |
  
  
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Jhn 16:33 |
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. |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "Genesis 3:17," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. . <http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Gen/3/17.html>.

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