Cross references
Genesis 3:5
“For God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
Genesis 3:5 has 28 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 22 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Ezekiel 28:2 (13 votes) and 2 Corinthians 11:13–15 (10 votes). 30 other verses point back to it. It links with 25 other books, from Genesis 2 to Revelation 13.
Which verses does Genesis 3:5 point to?
The 20 strongest of 28, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Ezekiel 28:213 votes
“Son of man, tell the ruler of Tyre that this is what the Lord GOD says: Your heart is proud, and you have said, ‘I am a god; I sit in the seat of gods in the heart of the sea.’ Yet you are a man and not a god, though you have regarded your heart as that of a god.
- 2 Corinthians 11:13–1510 votes
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. …
- 2 Thessalonians 2:410 votes
He will oppose and exalt himself above every so-called god or object of worship. So he will seat himself in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.
- 2 Corinthians 4:49 votes
The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
- Genesis 2:178 votes
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.”
- Acts 26:188 votes
to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those sanctified by faith in Me.’
- 2 Corinthians 11:38 votes
I am afraid, however, that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may be led astray from your simple and pure devotion to Christ.
- Exodus 20:77 votes
You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave anyone unpunished who takes His name in vain.
- Matthew 6:237 votes
But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
- Acts 12:22–237 votes
And they began to shout, “This is the voice of a god, not a man!” Immediately, because Herod did not give glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.
- Genesis 3:226 votes
Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil. And now, lest he reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever...”
- Genesis 3:75 votes
And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; so they sewed together fig leaves and made coverings for themselves.
- Genesis 3:105 votes
“I heard Your voice in the garden,” he replied, “and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself.”
- 1 Kings 22:64 votes
- Psalm 12:44 votes
- Isaiah 14:144 votes
- Jeremiah 14:13–144 votes
- Ezekiel 13:2–64 votes
- Ezekiel 28:94 votes
- Daniel 4:304 votes
Which verses point to Genesis 3:5?
The 10 strongest of 30.