The Fall of Man
The first disobedience, its cost, and the first promise of a remedy.
Gen 3:1-7
Read in full chapter →1Now 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?
See also: 2 Corinthians 11:3, 2 Corinthians 11:14
2And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
See also: Psalms 58:4
3But 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.
See also: Genesis 2:16-17, John 8:44
4And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
See also: John 8:44, 2 Corinthians 11:3
5For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
See also: Ezekiel 28:2, 2 Thessalonians 2:4
6And 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.
See also: 1 John 2:16, James 1:14-15
7And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
See also: Genesis 2:25, Isaiah 59:6
Gen 3:15
Read in full chapter →15And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
See also: Romans 16:20, 1 John 3:8
Rom 5:12
Read in full chapter →12Wherefore, 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:
See also: 2 Baruch 23:4, 1 Corinthians 15:21-22
1 Cor 15:22
Read in full chapter →22For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
See also: Romans 8:1, Romans 5:12-21