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Adam in the Bible
Adam is the first human being in the biblical account, formed from the ground and placed in Eden to work and keep it. His disobedience introduces death and exile into the story, and Paul later reads him as the head of the old humanity that Christ reverses.
Verses mentioning Adam
37 occurrences across 31 verses in the King James Version.
- Romans 5:14
Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
Read in context - 1 Corinthians 15:22
For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
Read in context - 1 Corinthians 15:45
And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
Read in context - 1 Timothy 2:13
For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
Read in context - 1 Timothy 2:14
And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
Read in context - Jude 1:14
And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
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