Genesis 3:17

17 And to Adam he said,

a“Because you have listened to the voice of your wife

and have beaten of the tree

of which I commanded you,

‘You shall not eat of it,’

ccursed is the ground because of you;

in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;

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Genesis 3:6
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, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.

Genesis 3:12
The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.”

Hosea 6:7
But like Adam they transgressed the covenant; there they dealt faithlessly with me.

Romans 5:12
Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—

1 Corinthians 15:21
For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead.


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