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Genesis 3:17
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Genesis 3:17
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17 Then to Adam He said, (A)“Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree (B)of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’:
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Genesis 3:17
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Genesis 3:17
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Genesis 5:29
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Genesis 5:29
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29 And he called his name (A)Noah,[a] saying, “This one will comfort us concerning our work and the toil of our hands, because of the ground (B)which the Lord has cursed.”
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- Genesis 5:29 Lit. Rest
Genesis 5:29
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Genesis 5:29
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29 He named him Noah[a](A) and said, “He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground the Lord has cursed.(B)”
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- Genesis 5:29 Noah sounds like the Hebrew for comfort.
Romans 8:20-22
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Romans 8:20-22
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20 For (A)the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope; 21 because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of [a]corruption into the glorious (B)liberty of the children of God. 22 For we know that the whole creation (C)groans and labors with birth pangs together until now.
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- Romans 8:21 decay
Romans 8:20-22
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Romans 8:20-22
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20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it,(A) in hope 21 that[a] the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay(B) and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.(C)
22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning(D) as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.
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- Romans 8:21 Or subjected it in hope. 21 For
Isaiah 24:5-6
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Isaiah 24:5-6
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5 (A)The earth is also defiled under its inhabitants,
Because they have (B)transgressed the laws,
Changed the ordinance,
Broken the (C)everlasting covenant.
6 Therefore (D)the curse has devoured the earth,
And those who dwell in it are [a]desolate.
Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are (E)burned,
And few men are left.
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- Isaiah 24:6 Or held guilty
Isaiah 24:5-6
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Isaiah 24:5-6
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Ecclesiastes 2:22-23
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Ecclesiastes 2:22-23
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22 (A)For what has man for all his labor, and for the striving of his heart with which he has toiled under the sun? 23 For all his days are (B)sorrowful, and his work burdensome; even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.
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Ecclesiastes 2:22-23
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Ecclesiastes 2:22-23
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22 What do people get for all the toil and anxious striving with which they labor under the sun?(A) 23 All their days their work is grief and pain;(B) even at night their minds do not rest.(C) This too is meaningless.
John 16:33
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John 16:33
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33 These things I have spoken to you, that (A)in Me you may have peace. (B)In the world you [a]will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, (C)I have overcome the world.”
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- John 16:33 NU, M omit will
John 16:33
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John 16:33
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33 “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace.(A) In this world you will have trouble.(B) But take heart! I have overcome(C) the world.”
Psalm 127:2
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Psalm 127:2
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2 It is vain for you to rise up early,
To sit up late,
To (A)eat the bread of sorrows;
For so He gives His beloved sleep.
Psalm 127:2
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Psalm 127:2
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Jeremiah 7:23-24
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Jeremiah 7:23-24
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23 But this is what I commanded them, saying, (A)‘Obey My voice, and (B)I will be your God, and you shall be My people. And walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you.’ 24 (C)Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but (D)followed[a] the counsels and the [b]dictates of their evil hearts, and (E)went[c] backward and not forward.
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- Jeremiah 7:24 walked in
- Jeremiah 7:24 stubbornness or imagination
- Jeremiah 7:24 Lit. they were
Jeremiah 7:23-24
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Jeremiah 7:23-24
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23 but I gave them this command:(A) Obey(B) me, and I will be your God and you will be my people.(C) Walk in obedience to all(D) I command you, that it may go well(E) with you. 24 But they did not listen(F) or pay attention;(G) instead, they followed the stubborn inclinations of their evil hearts.(H) They went backward(I) and not forward.
Job 14:1
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Job 14:1
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Job 14:1
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Job 14:1
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Romans 3:19
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Romans 3:19
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19 Now we know that whatever (A)the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that (B)every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become [a]guilty before God.
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- Romans 3:19 accountable
Romans 3:19
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Romans 3:19
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19 Now we know that whatever the law says,(A) it says to those who are under the law,(B) so that every mouth may be silenced(C) and the whole world held accountable to God.(D)
Matthew 25:26-27
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Matthew 25:26-27
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26 “But his lord answered and said to him, ‘You (A)wicked and lazy servant, you knew that I reap where I have not sown, and gather where I have not scattered seed. 27 So you ought to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I would have received back my own with interest.
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Matthew 25:26-27
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Matthew 25:26-27
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26 “His master replied, ‘You wicked, lazy servant! So you knew that I harvest where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed? 27 Well then, you should have put my money on deposit with the bankers, so that when I returned I would have received it back with interest.
Ecclesiastes 5:17
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Ecclesiastes 5:17
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17 All his days (A)he also eats in darkness,
And he has much sorrow and sickness and anger.
Ecclesiastes 5:17
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Ecclesiastes 5:17
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17 All their days they eat in darkness,
with great frustration, affliction and anger.
Ecclesiastes 2:17
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Ecclesiastes 2:17
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17 Therefore I hated life because the work that was done under the sun was distressing to me, for all is vanity and grasping for the wind.
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Ecclesiastes 2:17
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Ecclesiastes 2:17
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Toil Is Meaningless
17 So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. All of it is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.(A)
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