The Relationship Between Man's Performance and the Toil of Sweat

 

by Barbara Latta

In the Bible, sweat represents works and performance.

There are only three places in scripture where sweat is mentioned. The first is when Adam and Eve were cast out of the Garden of Eden. God told Adam from now on he would toil by the sweat of his brow.

 In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for dust you are, and to dust you shall return. (Genesis 3:19 NKJV)

Before sin, Adam and Eve had an effortless relationship with their Creator.