Cross-references Explore similar Bible verses on Genesis 2:17 in English Standard Version "but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”" Ge 3:1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” Ge 3:11 He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?” Ge 3:17 And to Adam he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; Ro 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Jas 1:15 Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.