26 Then God said, ^k“Let ^lus make man¹ in our image, after our likeness. And ^mlet them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

The Fall

1 Now the ^kserpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made.

He said to the woman, ^l“Did God actually say, ^m‘You¹ shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” 2 And the woman said to the serpent, ⁿ“We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, 3 but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” 4 But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. 5 For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be ^olike God, knowing good and evil.” 6 So when the woman ^psaw 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,² she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. 7 Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were ^qnaked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.

8 And they heard the sound of the Lord God ^rwalking in the garden in the cool³ of the day, and the man and his wife ^shid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”⁴ 10 And he said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.” 11 He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?” 12 The man said, “The woman ^twhom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.” 13 Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this that you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent ^udeceived me, and I ate.”

14 The Lord God said to the serpent,

16 To the woman he said,

17 And to Adam he said,

20 The man called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.⁷ 21 ^fAnd the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them.

22 Then the Lord God said, ^g“Behold, the man has become ^hlike one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the ⁱtree of life and eat, and live forever—” 23 therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden to ^jwork the ground from which he was taken. 24 He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.

23 for ^uall have ^vsinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Death in Adam, Life in Christ

12 Therefore, ^hjust as sin came into the world ⁱthrough one man, and ^jdeath ^kthrough sin, and so death spread to all men¹ because ^lall sinned—

By Grace Through Faith

1 And you were ^ydead in the trespasses and sins 2 ^zin which ^ayou once walked, following the course¹ of this world, following the ^bprince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the ^csons of disobedience— 3 among whom we all once lived in the ^dpassions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.²

One in Christ

11 Therefore remember that ^xat one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called “the uncircumcision” by what is called ^ythe circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands— 12 remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, ^zalienated from the commonwealth of Israel and ^astrangers to ^bthe covenants of ^cpromise, ^dhaving no hope and without God in the world.