Genesis 3:18
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18 It will grow thorns and thistles for you,
though you will eat of its grains.
Matthew 13:7
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7 Other seeds fell among thorns that grew up and choked out the tender plants.
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Isaiah 7:23
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23 In that day the lush vineyards, now worth 1,000 pieces of silver,[a] will become patches of briers and thorns.
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- 7:23 Hebrew 1,000 [shekels] of silver, about 25 pounds or 11.4 kilograms in weight.
Job 5:5
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5 The hungry devour their harvest,
even when it is guarded by brambles.[a]
The thirsty pant after their wealth.[b]
Hebrews 6:8
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8 But if a field bears thorns and thistles, it is useless. The farmer will soon condemn that field and burn it.
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Jeremiah 4:3
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Coming Judgment against Judah
3 This is what the Lord says to the people of Judah and Jerusalem:
“Plow up the hard ground of your hearts!
Do not waste your good seed among thorns.
Isaiah 32:13
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13 For your land will be overgrown with thorns and briers.
Your joyful homes and happy towns will be gone.
Isaiah 5:6
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6 I will make it a wild place
where the vines are not pruned and the ground is not hoed,
a place overgrown with briers and thorns.
I will command the clouds
to drop no rain on it.
Proverbs 22:5
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5 Corrupt people walk a thorny, treacherous road;
whoever values life will avoid it.
Psalm 104:14-15
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14 You cause grass to grow for the livestock
and plants for people to use.
You allow them to produce food from the earth—
15 wine to make them glad,
olive oil to soothe their skin,
and bread to give them strength.
Job 31:40
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40 then let thistles grow on that land instead of wheat,
and weeds instead of barley.”
Job’s words are ended.
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Joshua 23:13
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13 then know for certain that the Lord your God will no longer drive them out of your land. Instead, they will be a snare and a trap to you, a whip for your backs and thorny brambles in your eyes, and you will vanish from this good land the Lord your God has given you.
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Jeremiah 12:13
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13 My people have planted wheat
but are harvesting thorns.
They have worn themselves out,
but it has done them no good.
They will harvest a crop of shame
because of the fierce anger of the Lord.”
Proverbs 24:31
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31 I saw that it was overgrown with nettles.
It was covered with weeds,
and its walls were broken down.
Psalm 104:2
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2 You are dressed in a robe of light.
You stretch out the starry curtain of the heavens;
Psalm 90:3
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3 You turn people back to dust, saying,
“Return to dust, you mortals!”
Job 1:21
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21 He said,
“I came naked from my mother’s womb,
and I will be naked when I leave.
The Lord gave me what I had,
and the Lord has taken it away.
Praise the name of the Lord!”
Romans 14:2
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2 For instance, one person believes it’s all right to eat anything. But another believer with a sensitive conscience will eat only vegetables.
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