The Consequence of Sin

The Consequence of Sin

So the LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, “Cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life. And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.” To the woman he said, “I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.” To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.” Genesis 3:14-19

The Consequence of Sin

On the Serpent and Satan (verses 14-15)
  • Humiliation and defeat
  • A promise of defeat and hope
On the Woman (verse 16)
  • Child-bearing
  • Marriage
On the Man (verses 17-19)
  • The ground is cursed
  • Work is difficult
  • Death

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