Genesis 3:18
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.”
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“Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;”
King James Version · Public Domain“thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and thorn and bramble it doth bring forth to thee, and thou hast eaten the herb of the field;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Genesis 3:18 — 18 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Joshua 23:13know 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 1:21saying: “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.”
- Job 5:5The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from the thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.
- Job 31:40then let briers grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.” Thus conclude the words of Job.
- Psalms 90:3You return man to dust, saying, “Return, O sons of mortals.”
- Psalms 104:2He wraps Himself in light as with a garment; He stretches out the heavens like a tent,
- Psalms 104:14He makes the grass grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth:
- Proverbs 22:5Thorns and snares lie on the path of the perverse; he who guards his soul stays far from them.
- Proverbs 24:31Thorns had grown up everywhere, thistles had covered the ground, and the stone wall was broken down.
- Isaiah 5:6I 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 7:23And 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 7:24Men will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be covered with briers and thorns.
- Isaiah 32:13and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers— even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry.
- Jeremiah 4:3For 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 12:13They 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 13:7Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the seedlings.
- Romans 14:2For one person has faith to eat all things, while another, who is weak, eats only vegetables.
- Hebrews 6:8But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless, and its curse is imminent. In the end it will be burned.
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