Bible Verses About The Fall
This collection includes 50 passages about The Fall. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.
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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.
Scripture Passages
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.
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 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:
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.
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 woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
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 Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
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 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 man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
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 it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
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?
Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?
Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.
And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
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 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 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:
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 the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.
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 God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
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 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.
Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
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 Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord.
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 Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
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.
Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
And the Lord said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan answered the Lord, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
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