The Fall
The event in Genesis 3 when Adam and Eve disobeyed God by eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, bringing sin and death into the world. The serpent's temptation appealed to desire, beauty, and wisdom (3:6). Consequences were immediate and far-reaching: shame (3:7), broken relationship with God (3:8-10), pain in childbirth (3:16), toil in work (3:17-19), and death (3:19). Yet within the curse, God embedded the first gospel promise — the seed of the woman would crush the serpent's head (3:15). Romans 5:12-21 explains how Adam's fall affected all humanity and how Christ's obedience reverses it. The fall explains the human condition; the gospel provides the remedy.
Verses about The Fall
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Genesis 2:21
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;
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Genesis 43:18
And the men were afraid, because they were brought into Joseph’s house; and they said, Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the fir…
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Genesis 45:24
So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way.
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Genesis 49:17
Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.
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Exodus 5:3
And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days’ journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the Lord our…
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Exodus 15:16
Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine arm they shall be as still as a stone; till thy people pass over, O Lord, till the peo…
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Exodus 21:33
And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein;
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Leviticus 11:32
And upon whatsoever any of them, when they are dead, doth fall, it shall be unclean; whether it be any vessel of wood, or raiment, or skin, or sack, …
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Leviticus 11:37
And if any part of their carcase fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it shall be clean.
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Leviticus 11:38
But if any water be put upon the seed, and any part of their carcase fall thereon, it shall be unclean unto you.
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Leviticus 19:29
Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.
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Leviticus 26:7
And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.
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Leviticus 26:8
And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
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Leviticus 26:36
And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shal…
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Leviticus 26:37
And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
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Numbers 11:31
And there went forth a wind from the Lord, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day’s journey on this side, a…
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Numbers 14:3
And wherefore hath the Lord brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for…
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Numbers 14:29
Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, whi…
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Numbers 14:32
But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.
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Numbers 14:43
For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the Lord, therefore the L…
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