Bible Verses About Adam
This collection includes 26 passages about Adam. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.
This collection is a starting point, not a count of every relevant passage in the Bible.
And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
Reading context: Adam names the creatures within the surrounding garden account.
Scripture Passages
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
Reading context: The verse introduces the family record that continues through this chapter.
Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
Reading context: Read the whole comparison in Romans 5; the reference to Adam belongs to that argument.
And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
Reading context: This verse explicitly names Adam. Read all of Genesis 2 to distinguish narrative, quoted speech and later reflection.
And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
Reading context: This verse explicitly names Adam. Read all of Genesis 2 to distinguish narrative, quoted speech and later reflection.
And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
Reading context: This verse explicitly names Adam. Read all of Genesis 2 to distinguish narrative, quoted speech and later reflection.
And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.
Reading context: Keep the dialogue, actions and consequences in the garden account together.
And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
Reading context: Keep the dialogue, actions and consequences in the garden account together.
And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
Reading context: Keep the dialogue, actions and consequences in the garden account together.
And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
Reading context: Keep the dialogue, actions and consequences in the garden account together.
Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
Reading context: Keep the dialogue, actions and consequences in the garden account together.
And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord.
Reading context: Read the family context of Cain, Abel and Seth.
And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.
Reading context: Read the family context of Cain, Abel and Seth.
Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
Reading context: This is the chapter’s family record; preserve its source wording and ages.
And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
Reading context: This is the chapter’s family record; preserve its source wording and ages.
And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:
Reading context: This is the chapter’s family record; preserve its source wording and ages.
And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
Reading context: This is the chapter’s family record; preserve its source wording and ages.
When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
Reading context: This verse explicitly names Adam. Read all of Deuteronomy 32 to distinguish narrative, quoted speech and later reflection.
Adam, Sheth, Enosh,
Reading context: This verse explicitly names Adam. Read all of 1 Chronicles 1 to distinguish narrative, quoted speech and later reflection.
If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
Reading context: This verse explicitly names Adam. Read all of Job 31 to distinguish narrative, quoted speech and later reflection.
Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.
Reading context: This verse explicitly names Adam. Read all of Luke 3 to distinguish narrative, quoted speech and later reflection.
For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
Reading context: The references to Adam occur in the chapter’s discussion of resurrection and its comparison with Christ.
And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
Reading context: The references to Adam occur in the chapter’s discussion of resurrection and its comparison with Christ.
For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
Reading context: The references to Adam occur within this chapter’s argument; this collection does not resolve differing interpretations of that passage.
And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
Reading context: The references to Adam occur within this chapter’s argument; this collection does not resolve differing interpretations of that passage.
And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
Reading context: This verse explicitly names Adam. Read all of Jude 1 to distinguish narrative, quoted speech and later reflection.
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This collection includes 26 English KJV verses explicitly naming Adam in personal, family or later interpretive settings. Joshua 3:16 is excluded because it names the city Adam. Genesis gives the garden and family accounts; later books use the name in genealogies, comparisons and arguments. This exact-name scope does not claim to include every creation passage or settle theological interpretations.
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26 KJV passages in this name collection. Open chapter context, save a verse, or practise with it. Read the surrounding chapter to understand the speaker, audience, and setting before drawing a conclusion.
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This collection covers its disclosed English KJV name scope, including any stated exclusions or parallel passages. It is not every thematic reference to the subject, and a shared name does not establish that two passages describe the same person.
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