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 vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope
• Gen 5:29He named him Noah, saying, “This one will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, caused by the ground which Yahweh has cursed.”
• Isa 24:5–6The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant.
• Eccl 2:22–23For what has a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, in which he labors under the sun?
• John 16:33I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”
• Job 14:1“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
• Jer 7:23–24but this thing I commanded them, saying, ‘Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people; and walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’
• Ps 127:2It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil; for he gives sleep to his loved ones.
• Eccl 5:17All his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath.
• Gen 2:16–17Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden;
• 1 Sam 15:23–24For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected Yahweh’s word, he has also rejected you from being king.”
• Job 21:17“How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?
• Rom 3:19Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.
• Matt 25:26–27“But his lord answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I didn’t sow, and gather where I didn’t scatter.
• Job 5:6–7For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;
• Eccl 1:13–14I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.
• Eccl 2:11Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
• Luke 19:22“He said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn’t lay down, and reaping that which I didn’t sow.
• Eccl 2:17So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.
• Matt 25:45“Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you didn’t do it to one of the least of these, you didn’t do it to me.’
• Gen 3:11God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
• Eccl 1:2–3“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”
• Gen 3:6When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.
• Matt 22:12and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here not wearing wedding clothing?’ He was speechless.
• Ps 90:7–9For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.

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