17 Then to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it’;

(A)Cursed is the ground because of you;
(B)In [a]toil you will eat of it
All the days of your life.
18 “Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you;
And you will eat the [b]plants of the field;
19 By the sweat of your face
You will eat bread,
Till you (C)return to the ground,
Because (D)from it you were taken;
For you are dust,
And to dust you shall return.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 3:17 Or sorrow
  2. Genesis 3:18 Lit plant

19 For the (A)anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for (B)the revealing of the (C)sons of God. 20 For the creation (D)was subjected to (E)futility, not willingly, but (F)because of Him who subjected it, [a]in hope 21 that (G)the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. 22 For we know that the whole creation (H)groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 8:20 Or in hope; because the creation