OLD TESTAMENT

Genesis 3:17

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To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and have eaten from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.

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Verse 17. Thy work, sin; thy perdition is from thyself: this is all that man can challenge for his own. Bible.

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