After The Fall. Genesis 3:14-19 NLT

When I first read Genesis 3:14-19 I thought " I don't think I even want to touch what this says". Especially verse 16 "And you will desire to control your husband,  but he will rule over you. ” and 17 “Since you listened to your wife". 

Then I read the following summary by David Guzik and it made sense: 

The principle of Galatians 3:13 is established as we consider that Jesus bore each aspect of the curse upon Adam and Eve in its totality: Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us.

· Sin brought pain to childbirth, and no one knew more pain than Jesus did when He, through His suffering, brought many sons to glory (Hebrews 2:10)

· Sin brought conflict, and Jesus endured great conflict to bring our salvation (Hebrews 12:3)

· Thorns came with sin and the fall, and Jesus endured a crown of thorns to bring our salvation (John 19:2)

· Sin brought sweat, and Jesus sweat, as it were, great drops of blood to win our salvation (Luke 22:44)

· Sin brought sorrow, and Jesus became a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief, to save us (Isaiah 53:3)

· Sin brought death, and Jesus tasted death for everyone that we might be saved (Hebrews 2:9)

Sin brought conflict between men and women. It's not about control, it's about the harmony Adam and Eve experienced gone and the birth of conflict between husband and wife. 

Sin brought idolatry. Adam wanted to be with Eve more then he wanted to be with God. 

The result of their sin is a curse with lasting effect. 

Genesis 3::14-19 NLT 

14 Then the LORD God said to the serpent, 

“Because you have done this, you are cursed 

more than all animals, domestic and wild. 

You will crawl on your belly, 

groveling in the dust as long as you live. 

15 And I will cause hostility between you and the woman, 

and between your offspring and her offspring. 

He will strike your head, 

and you will strike his heel.” 

16Then he said to the woman, 

“I will sharpen the pain of your pregnancy, and in pain you will give birth. 

And you will desire to control your husband, but he will rule over you.” 

17 And to the man he said, 

“Since you listened to your wife and ate from the tree 

whose fruit I commanded you not to eat, the ground is cursed because of you. 

All your life you will struggle to scratch a living from it. 

18 It will grow thorns and thistles for you, though you will eat of its grains. 

19 By the sweat of your brow 

will you have food to eat 

until you return to the ground 

from which you were made. 

For you were made from dust, 

and to dust you will return.” 

Blessings, Cecilia