Westminster Larger Catechism · Question 27

What misery did the fall bring upon mankind?

Scripture proofs King James Version

• Genesis 3:8, 10, 24 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
• Ephesians 2:2-3 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
• 2 Timothy 2:26 And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.
• Genesis 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
• Lamentations 3:39 Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
• Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
• Matthew 25:41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.
• Matthew 25:46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
• Jude 7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.