Genesis 3:17–19

Memory Verse

Then He said to Adam, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree, which I charged you, saying, ‘Do not eat from it,’ cursed is the ground on account of you. In toil, you will eat all the days of your life. And thorns and thistles will sprout forth for you, and you will eat the herbs of the field. In the sweat of your face, you will eat bread until you return unto the ground, because from the ground you were taken. For you are dust and unto the dust you will return” (Genesis 3:17–19). 

The creation was subject to futility, no longer producing what it is capable of, but with hope. In Eve’s punishment, God promised a savior. Creation now awaits the deliverance into the glory of the Children of God (Romans 8:20–21), eagerly awaiting the revealing of the sons of God (Romans 8:19). This will happen when Christ returns to the earth with His Church to set up His kingdom, in which righteousness will rule and the curse on the earth will be lifted. 

Adam, and therefore all his offspring, are now subject to physical death. Through his sin, he brought death into the world, and death passed to all on the basis that all sinned (Romans 5:21). Therefore, it is appointed unto men to die once, and then judgment (Hebrews 9:27).