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Bible Verses About Eve And The Fall

Early Christian writers taught that Eve was deceived by the serpent, Adam and Eve disobeyed God, and that this fall brought death into human life. Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria, Theophilus of Antioch, Origen, Tertullian, and others repeat this reading of Genesis and connect it to later Christian teaching about sin, death, and the need for Christ.

The evidence is broad across the 1st to 3rd centuries, though some writers use Genesis mainly to argue against heresies or to make moral points about self-control. A few cards are only indirect, but the main teaching about Eve’s deception and the fall is well supported.

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20 references

Foundation Texts

Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

Primary Genesis 3 deception text.

And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

Primary Genesis 3 confession of deception.

And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.

Direct apostolic statement about Eve's deception.

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

Primary Genesis 3 eating text.

But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

Direct apostolic statement about the serpent deceiving Eve.

And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

Curse on the serpent after the fall.

And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

Curse on Adam after he listened to his wife.

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.

Shows shame and hiding after sin.

Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

Curse on the woman after the fall.

Supporting Passages

And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

Direct Genesis 3:4 passage quoting the serpent's lie.

And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:

Context line from the serpent dialogue, incomplete on its own.

And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

Pre-fall innocence, useful context but not direct teaching.

And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

Naming Eve as mother of all living after the fall.

And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

Nakedness and shame after sin.

And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

For Adam was first formed, then Eve.

Order of creation, not the fall itself.

Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

Expulsion from Eden.

And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.

Adam blames the woman; both are involved.

Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.