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Romans 8:20-22
For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hopethat the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now.
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Genesis 5:29
And he named him Noah, saying,“ This one will give us comfort from our work and from the hard labor of our hands caused by the ground which the Lord has cursed.”
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Isaiah 24:5-6
The earth is also defiled by its inhabitants, for they violated laws, altered statutes, and broke the everlasting covenant.Therefore, a curse devours the earth, and those who live on it suffer for their guilt. Therefore, the inhabitants of the earth decrease in number, and few people are left.
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Ecclesiastes 2:22-23
For what does a person get in all his labor and in his striving with which he labors under the sun?Because all his days his activity is painful and irritating; even at night his mind does not rest. This too is futility.
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Job 14:1
“ Man, who is born of woman, Is short lived and full of turmoil.
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Psalms 127:2
It is futile for you to rise up early, To stay up late, To eat the bread of painful labor; This is how He gives to His beloved sleep.
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Ecclesiastes 5:17
All his life he also eats in darkness with great irritation, sickness, and anger.
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Job 5:6-7
For disaster does not come from the dust, Nor does trouble sprout from the ground,For man is born for trouble, As sparks fly upward.
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Job 21:17
“ How often is the lamp of the wicked put out, Or does their disaster fall on them? Does God apportion destruction in His anger?
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Genesis 3:6
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took some of its fruit and ate; and she also gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.
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Ecclesiastes 1:13-14
And I set my mind to seek and explore by wisdom about everything that has been done under heaven. It is a sorry task with which God has given the sons of mankind to be troubled.I have seen all the works which have been done under the sun, and behold, all is futility and striving after wind.
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Ecclesiastes 2:17
So I hated life, for the work which had been done under the sun was unhappy to me; because everything is futility and striving after wind.
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Genesis 2:16-17
The Lord God commanded the man, saying,“ From any tree of the garden you may freely eat;but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for on the day that you eat from it you will certainly die.”
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Romans 3:19
Now we know that whatever the Law says, it speaks to those who are under the Law, so that every mouth may be closed and all the world may become accountable to God;
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Matthew 25:26-27
“ But his master answered and said to him,‘ You worthless, lazy slave! Did you know that I reap where I did not sow, and gather where I did not scatter seed?Then you ought to have put my money in the bank, and on my arrival I would have received my money back with interest.
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Luke 19:22
He* said to him,‘ From your own lips I will judge you, you worthless slave. Did you know that I am a demanding man, taking up what I did not lay down, and reaping what I did not sow?
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Ecclesiastes 1:2-3
“ Futility of futilities,” says the Preacher,“ Futility of futilities! All is futility.”What advantage does a person have in all his work Which he does under the sun?
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Jeremiah 7:23-24
But this is what I commanded them, saying,‘ Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you will be My people; and you shall walk entirely in the way which I command you, so that it may go well for you.’Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked by their own advice and in the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and they went backward and not forward.
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1 Samuel 15 23-1 Samuel 15 24
For rebellion is as reprehensible as the sin of divination, And insubordination is as reprehensible as false religion and idolatry. Since you have rejected the word of the Lord, He has also rejected you from being king.”Then Saul said to Samuel,“ I have sinned, for I have violated the command of the Lord and your words, because I feared the people and listened to their voice.
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Genesis 3:11
And He said,“ Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree from which I commanded you not to eat?”
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Matthew 25:45
Then He will answer them,‘ Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did not do it for one of the least of these, you did not do it for Me, either.’
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John 16:33
These things I have spoken to you so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.”
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Ecclesiastes 2:11
So I considered all my activities which my hands had done and the labor which I had exerted, and behold, all was futility and striving after wind, and there was no benefit under the sun.
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Matthew 22:12
and he* said to him,‘ Friend, how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ And the man was speechless.
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Psalms 90:7-9
For we have been consumed by Your anger, And we have been terrified by Your wrath.You have placed our guilty deeds before You, Our hidden sins in the light of Your presence.For all our days have dwindled away in Your fury; We have finished our years like a sigh.