Genesis 3:17

Because Adam disobeyed God's command, the ground itself is cursed and work becomes painful toil. It shows that sin brings consequences reaching beyond the individual into all of creation.

Cross-references · 25

• Rom 8:20–22For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hope
• Gen 5:29And he named him Noah, saying, “May this one comfort us in the labor and toil of our hands caused by the ground that the LORD has cursed.”
• Isa 24:5–6The earth is defiled by its people; they have transgressed the laws; they have overstepped the decrees and broken the everlasting covenant.
• Eccl 2:22–23For what does a man get for all the toil and striving with which he labors under the sun?
• John 16:33I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage; I have overcome the world!”
• Job 14:1“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.
• Jer 7:23–24but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well with you.
• Ps 127:2In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for bread to eat—for He gives sleep to His beloved.
• Eccl 5:17Moreover, all his days he eats in darkness, with much sorrow, sickness, and anger.
• Gen 2:16–17And the LORD God commanded him, “You may eat freely from every tree of the garden,
• 1 Sam 15:23–24For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance is like the wickedness of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, He has rejected you as king.”
• Job 21:17How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come upon them? Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction?
• Rom 3:19Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
• Matt 25:26–27‘You wicked, lazy servant!’ replied his master. ‘You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed.
• Job 5:6–7For distress does not spring from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the ground.
• Eccl 1:13–14And I set my mind to seek and explore by wisdom all that is done under heaven. What a heavy burden God has laid upon the sons of men to occupy them!
• Eccl 2:11Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and what I had toiled to achieve, I found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind; there was nothing to be gained under the sun.
• Luke 19:22His master replied, ‘You wicked servant, I will judge you by your own words. So you knew that I am a harsh man, withdrawing what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow?
• Eccl 2:17So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
• Matt 25:45Then the King will answer, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for Me.’
• Gen 3:11“Who told you that you were naked?” asked the LORD God. “Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?”
• Eccl 1:2–3“Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher, “futility of futilities! Everything is futile!”
• Gen 3:6When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.
• Matt 22:12‘Friend,’ he asked, ‘how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ But the man was speechless.
• Ps 90:7–9For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath.

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