Genesis 3:17

Which verses does Genesis 3:17 point to?

The 20 strongest of 25, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

1. Romans 8:20–2216 votes

   For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. …

2. Genesis 5:2915 votes

   And he named him Noah, saying, “May this one comfort us in the labor and toil of our hands caused by the ground that the LORD has cursed.”

3. Isaiah 24:5–611 votes

   The earth is defiled by its people; they have transgressed the laws; they have overstepped the decrees and broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore a curse has consumed the earth, and its inhabitants must bear the guilt; the earth’s dwellers have been burned, and only a few survive.

4. Ecclesiastes 2:22–2310 votes

   For what does a man get for all the toil and striving with which he labors under the sun? Indeed, all his days are filled with grief, and his task is sorrowful; even at night, his mind does not rest. This too is futile.

5. John 16:338 votes

   I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage; I have overcome the world!”

6. Job 14:15 votes

   “Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.

7. Jeremiah 7:23–244 votes

   but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well with you. Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.

8. Genesis 2:16–173 votes

   And the LORD God commanded him, “You may eat freely from every tree of the garden, but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

9. Psalm 127:23 votes

   In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for bread to eat—for He gives sleep to His beloved.

10. Ecclesiastes 5:173 votes

    Moreover, all his days he eats in darkness, with much sorrow, sickness, and anger.

11. 1 Samuel 15:23–242 votes
12. Job 5:6–72 votes
13. Job 21:172 votes
14. Matthew 25:26–272 votes
15. Romans 3:192 votes
16. Genesis 3:61 vote

    When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.

17. Genesis 3:111 vote

    “Who told you that you were naked?” asked the LORD God. “Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?”

18. Ecclesiastes 1:2–31 vote
19. Ecclesiastes 1:13–141 vote
20. Ecclesiastes 2:111 vote

Which verses point to Genesis 3:17?

The 10 strongest of 34.

• Matthew 11:28 25
• Acts 5:29 23
• Romans 8:20 18
• Genesis 2:17 15
• Job 5:7 8
• Genesis 3:6 7
• Genesis 8:21 7
• Hebrews 6:8 7
• Matthew 16:23 6
• Ecclesiastes 3:18 5