Genesis 3:16-19

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¹⁶To the woman he said,

“I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing;
^(A)in pain you shall bring forth children.
^(B)Your desire shall be contrary to^[a] your husband,
but he shall ^(C)rule over you.”

¹⁷And to Adam he said,

“Because you have listened to the voice of your wife
    and have eaten of the tree
^(D)of which I commanded you,
    ‘You shall not eat of it,’
^(E)cursed is the ground because of you;
    ^(F)in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;
¹⁸thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you;
    and you shall eat the plants of the field.
¹⁹By the sweat of your face
    you shall eat bread,
till you return to the ground,
    for out of it you were taken;
^(G)for you are dust,
    and ^(H)to dust you shall return.”

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Footnotes

Genesis 3:16 Or shall be toward (see 4:7)

Ecclesiastes 2:22-23

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²²What has a man from ^(A)all the toil and striving of heart with which he toils beneath the sun? ²³For ^(B)all his days are full of sorrow, and his ^(C)work is a vexation. Even in the night his heart does not rest. This also is vanity.

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Romans 8:18-23

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Future Glory

¹⁸For I consider that the sufferings of this present time ^(A)are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. ¹⁹For the creation waits with eager longing for ^(B)the revealing of the sons of God. ²⁰For the creation ^(C)was subjected to futility, not willingly, but ^(D)because of him who subjected it, in hope ²¹that ^(E)the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. ²²For we know that ^(F)the whole creation ^(G)has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. ²³And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have ^(H)the firstfruits of the Spirit, ^(I)groan inwardly as ^(J)we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, ^(K)the redemption of our bodies.