That in the beginning¹ God made all things of nothing very good: and created man after His own image and likeness,² in righteousness and holiness of truth. That³ straight ways after by the subtlety of the serpent which Satan used as his instrument⁴ himself with his angels having sinned before and not kept their first estate, but justify their own habitation; first Eve,⁵ then Adam by her means, did wittingly and willingly fall into disobedience and transgression of the commandment of God. For the which death⁶ reigned over all: yea even⁷ over infants also, which have not sinned, after the like manner of the transgression of Adam, that is, actually: Yet are⁸ all since the fall of Adam begotten in his own likeness after his image, being conceived and born in iniquity, and so by nature the children of wrath and servants of sin, and subject to death, and all other calamities due unto sin in this world and forever.

1. Genesis 1; Isaiah 45:12; Colossians 1:16; Hebrews 11:3; Revelation 4:11 ↩︎
2. Genesis 1:26–27; Ecclesiastes 7:31; Ephesians 4:24 ↩︎
3. Genesis 3:1, 4–5; John 8:44; 2 Corinthians 11:3 ↩︎
4. John 8:44; 2 Peter 2:4; Jude 6 ↩︎
5. Genesis 3:1–3, 6; Ecclesiastes 7:31; Galatians 3:22; 1 Timothy 2:14 ↩︎
6. Genesis 2:17; Romans 5:12, 18–19; 6:23 ↩︎
7. Romans 5:14; 9:11 ↩︎
8. Genesis 5:3; Psalm 51:5; Ephesians 2:3 ↩︎