Genesis 3:1 (Listen)

The Fall

3:1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made.

He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You¹ shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?”

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Genesis 3:6 (Listen)

6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise,¹ she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.

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Romans 5:12–13 (Listen)

Death in Adam, Life in Christ

12 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men¹ because all sinned—13 for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law.

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Galatians 3:13 (Listen)

13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”—

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