Bible Verses About The Fall of Man
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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:
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And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
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 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:
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.
And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
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;
And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.
And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
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.
And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
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.
And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adamβs transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?
But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
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.
And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
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.
Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.
But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.
And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord.
And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
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 as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
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