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Genesis 3:17
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Genesis 3:17
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17 And to the man[a] he said,
“Because you have listened to the voice of your wife
and have eaten of the tree
about which I commanded you,
‘You shall not eat of it,’
cursed is the ground because of you;
in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life;(A)
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- 3.17 Or to Adam
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 he named him Noah, saying, “Out of the ground that the Lord has cursed this one shall bring us relief from our work and from the toil of our hands.”(A)
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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 the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope 21 that the creation itself will be set free from its enslavement to decay and will obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. 22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning together as it suffers together the pains of labor,
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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 The earth lies polluted
under its inhabitants,
for they have transgressed laws,
violated the statutes,
broken the everlasting covenant.(A)
6 Therefore a curse devours the earth,
and its inhabitants suffer for their guilt;
therefore the inhabitants of the earth dwindled,
and few people are left.(B)
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 What do mortals get from all the toil and strain with which they toil under the sun?(A) 23 For all their days are full of pain, and their work is a vexation; even at night their minds do not rest. This also is vanity.(B)
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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 I have said this to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you face persecution, but take courage: I have conquered the world!”(A)
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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 in vain that you rise up early
and go late to rest,
eating the bread of anxious toil,
for he gives sleep to his beloved.[a](A)
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- 127.2 Or for he provides for his beloved during 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 command I gave them, “Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people; walk only in the way that I command you, so that it may be well with you.”(A) 24 Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but, in the stubbornness of their evil will, they walked in their own counsels and looked backward rather than forward.(B)
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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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14 “A mortal, born of woman, few of days and full of trouble,(A)
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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 the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world may be held accountable to God.(A)
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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 master replied, ‘You wicked and lazy slave! You knew, did you, that I reap where I did not sow and gather where I did not scatter? 27 Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and on my return I would have received what was my own with interest.(A)
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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 Besides, all their days they eat in darkness, in much anger and sickness and resentment.(A)
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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 So I hated life because what is done under the sun was grievous to me, for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.(A)
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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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