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Adam: The First Man Romans 5:14–21

Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who did not sin in the way that Adam transgressed. He is a pattern of the One to come. / But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many! / Again, the gift is not like the result of the one man’s sin: The judgment that followed one sin brought condemnation, but the gift that followed many trespasses brought justification.

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Adam: The First Man 1 Timothy 2:14

And it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman who was deceived and fell into transgression.

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Adam: The First Man: Brought Sin Into the World 1 Corinthians 15:22, 45

For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. / So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being;” the last Adam a life-giving spirit.

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Adam: The First Man: Creation of Genesis 1:26–28

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.” / So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. / God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.”

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Adam: The First Man: Creation of Genesis 2:7

Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.

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Adam: The First Man: Creation of 1 Corinthians 15:45

So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being;” the last Adam a life-giving spirit.

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Adam: The First Man: Creation of 1 Timothy 2:13

For Adam was formed first, and then Eve.

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Adam: The First Man: His Death Genesis 5:5

So Adam lived a total of 930 years, and then he died.

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Adam: The First Man: History of, Before he Sinned Genesis 1:26–30

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.” / So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. / God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.”

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Adam: The First Man: History of, Before he Sinned Genesis 2:16–25

And the LORD God commanded him, “You may eat freely from every tree of the garden, / but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.” / The LORD God also said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make for him a suitable helper.”

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Adam: The First Man: Progenitor of the Human Race Deuteronomy 32:8

When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.

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Adam: The First Man: Progenitor of the Human Race Malachi 2:10

Do we not all have one Father? Did not one God create us? Why then do we break faith with one another so as to profane the covenant of our fathers?

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Adam: The First Man: Subsequent History of Genesis 3:20–24

And Adam named his wife Eve, because she would be the mother of all the living. / And the LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and He clothed them. / Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil. And now, lest he reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever...”

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Adam: The First Man: Subsequent History of Genesis 4:1, 2, 25

And Adam had relations with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain. “With the help of the LORD I have brought forth a man,” she said. / Later she gave birth to Cain’s brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, while Cain was a tiller of the soil. / And Adam again had relations with his wife, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, “God has granted me another seed in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.”

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Adam: The First Man: Subsequent History of Genesis 5:1–5

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in His own likeness. / Male and female He created them, and He blessed them. And in the day they were created, He called them “man.” / When Adam was 130 years old, he had a son in his own likeness, after his own image; and he named him Seth.

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Adam: The First Man: Temptation and Sin of Genesis 3:1

Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden?’”

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Adam: The First Man: Temptation and Sin of Job 31:33

if I have covered my transgressions like Adam by hiding my guilt in my heart,

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Adam: The First Man: Temptation and Sin of Isaiah 43:27

Your first father sinned, and your spokesmen rebelled against Me.

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Adam: The First Man: Temptation and Sin of Hosea 6:7

But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant; there they were unfaithful to Me.

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Adam: The First Man: Type of Christ Romans 5:14

Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who did not sin in the way that Adam transgressed. He is a pattern of the One to come.

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