Bible Verses About Humanity's Fall

Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.

The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.

And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.

For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:

And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.

For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.

Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.

As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the Lord our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth.

For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.

And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,

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;

O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.

The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!

And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.

Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the Lord hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.

And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

But 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.

Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.

I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.

For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

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.

And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.

And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.