“Curse”
LONG STORY SHORT

1. NATURAL CORRUPTION
Genesis 3:17-19 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. (18) It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants
of the field. (19) 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 3:16 To the woman he said, “I will make your pains in childbearing very
severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children.”

2. MORAL CORRUPTION
Genesis 3:22-24 And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing
good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of
life and eat, and live forever.” (23) So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden
to work the ground from which he had been taken. (24) After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.

1 John 1:8 If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.