5 Bible Verses about Fall Of Man

This I say therefore, and conjure you by the Lord not to live for the future as other Gentiles do, in the vanity of their minds,

You then that formerly were alienated from God, and were enemies by your imaginations and wicked practices, even you has Jesus Christ now reconciled to the body of his church,

to the pure all things are pure: but to corrupt infidels nothing is pure; whose very mind and conscience is polluted.

for they that are sensually affected, abandon themselves to sensuality, but the spiritual pursue their spiritual entertainments. now sensual inclinations lead to death; but spiritual affections to a life of tranquillity. because a sensual disposition of mind is averse to God: for it is not subject to the divine law, nor indeed can it be.

which are overspread with darkness, and averse to a religious life, thro' their innate ignorance and obduracy:

You then that formerly were alienated from God, and were enemies by your imaginations and wicked practices, even you has Jesus Christ now reconciled to the body of his church,

out of the heart proceed evil designs, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimony, slanders.

the cleansing of the body is only external, but the purification of the spirit is spiritual.

If we say that we are without sin, we deceive ourselves, and have no regard to truth.

but the scripture has declar'd all guilty of sin, that the blessing promised on condition of faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

we know that we are the children of God, and the rest of the world are subject to the evil spirit.

Adam was not seduc'd, but the woman, who was the cause of his transgression.

but I fear lest by some means or other, as Eve was beguiled by the subtilly of the serpent, your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is due to Christ.

Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, so death by this sin; and thereby death passed upon all men, who all by his means became mortal.

for as by Adam all die, even so by Christ shall all be restored to life.

they are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable, there is none that doth good, no not one. their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. read more.
their feet are swift to shed blood. destruction and misery are in their ways:

but I perceive in the animal part of me another law warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin, which is in my animal part.

(I allude to civil affairs, because of your unacquaintedness with spiritual matters:) as then you made your natural faculties subservient to impurity, and all manner of vice; make them now subservient to virtue and holiness.

for when we were in the carnal state of the law, the sinful passions of that state set our animal faculties to work in the service of death.

Therefore as by one offence all men fell under condemnation: even so by one act of righteousness, all men are restored to life.

for the wages of sin is death: but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

as was the terrestrial, such are they also that are terrestrial: and as is the celestial, such also shall they be who are to be celestial. for as we have born the image of the terrestrial, so we shall bear the image of the celestial.

Since then the children were made subject to a state of mortality, so he himself likewise was subject to the same condition: that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; and deliver them who thro' fear of death were all their life-time in a state of slavery.

and so they may rouze out of the snare of the devil, who leads them captive at his discretion.

as it is written, " there is none righteous, no not one:

When you were in that destructive state of transgression and sin,

Even you, who were in a dying sinful state, and were uncircumcised Gentiles, has God raised to life, as he did Christ, having pardoned all your sins:

let us draw near with sincerity, in full assurance of faith, having our consciences purified from guilt, and our bodies washed with pure water.

to the pure all things are pure: but to corrupt infidels nothing is pure; whose very mind and conscience is polluted.

for I experience, that in the carnal part of me dwells no good: for it is familiar to me, to will, but not to execute that which is good.

their eyes are inflam'd with adultery, and unextinguishable vice: they insnare the souls of the inconstant. their minds are practis'd in the arts of avarice: an execrable race, who have deserted the right way,

for God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him, should not perish, but have eternal life.

but the animal man does not receive the effusions of the spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him; neither can he understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.

which are overspread with darkness, and averse to a religious life, thro' their innate ignorance and obduracy:

of which number we all have formerly been, leading our dissolute lives in gratifying the desires of our sensual imaginations: and were indeed obnoxious to the divine displeasure, as other. Gentiles were:

for all having sinned, all have forfeited eternal glory:

there is no fear of God before their eyes."

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