Genesis 2:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

Genesis 2:17 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
James 1:15
Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
Genesis 3:19
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
1 Corinthians 15:56
The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
1 Corinthians 15:22
For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 16-17)

Observe here, I. God’s authority over man, as a creature that had reason and freedom of will. The Lord God commanded the man, who stood now as a public person, the father and representative of all mankind, to receive law, as he had lately received a nature, for himself and all his. God commanded all the creatures, according to their capacity; the settled course of nature is a law, Ps. 148:6; Ps. 1…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

17. thou shalt not eat of it ... thou shalt surely die--no reason assigned for the prohibition, but death was to be the punishment of disobedience. A positive command like this was not only the simplest and easiest, but the only trial to which their fidelity could be exposed.