Adam And Eve Disobey God

for even as in Adam all die, so also in the Christ all shall be made alive,

because of this, even as through one man the sin did enter into the world, and through the sin the death; and thus to all men the death did pass through, for that all did sin;

And to the messenger of the assembly in Sardis write: These things saith he who is having the Seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars: I have known thy works, and that thou hast the name that thou dost live, and thou art dead; — read the full passage →

and I fear, lest, as the serpent did beguile Eve in his subtilty, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that <FI>is<Fi> in the Christ;

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

for all did sin, and are come short of the glory of God--

so also it hath been written, `The first man Adam became a living creature,' the last Adam <FI>is<Fi> for a life-giving spirit,

And prophesy also to these did the seventh from Adam--Enoch--saying, `Lo, the Lord did come in His saintly myriads,

and Adam was not deceived, but the woman, having been deceived, into transgression came,

for Adam was first formed, then Eve,

but the death did reign from Adam till Moses, even upon those not having sinned in the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is a type of him who is coming.

for the wages of the sin <FI>is<Fi> death, and the gift of God <FI>is<Fi> life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

whoever may confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God in him doth remain, and he in God;

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

the <FI>son<Fi> of Cainan, the <FI>son<Fi> of Enos, the <FI>son<Fi> of Seth, the <FI>son<Fi> of Adam, the <FI>son<Fi> of God.

and he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, who is Devil and Adversary, and did bind him a thousand years,

and the great dragon was cast forth--the old serpent, who is called `Devil,' and `the Adversary,' who is leading astray the whole world--he was cast forth to the earth, and his messengers were cast forth with him.

and no wonder--for even the Adversary doth transform himself into a messenger of light;

and if any one was not found written in the scroll of the life, he was cast to the lake of the fire.

and upon her forehead was a name written: `Secret, Babylon the Great, the Mother of the Whores, and the Abominations of the earth.'

Every one who is doing the sin, the lawlessness also he doth do, and the sin is the lawlessness,

for we have known that the law is spiritual, and I am fleshly, sold by the sin;

on the morrow John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, `Lo, the Lamb of God, who is taking away the sin of the world;

and he said to them, `I was beholding the Adversary, as lightning from the heaven having fallen;

And I heard another voice out of the heaven, saying, `Come forth out of her, My people, that ye may not partake with her sins, and that ye may not receive of her plagues,

because of the wine of the wrath of her whoredom have all the nations drunk, and the kings of the earth with her did commit whoredom, and merchants of the earth from the power of her revel were made rich.

and now there doth remain faith, hope, love--these three; and the greatest of these <FI>is<Fi> love.

and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of fowls, and of quadrupeds, and of reptiles.

and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

And another messenger did follow, saying, `Fall, fall, did Babylon, the great city, because of the wine of the wrath of her whoredom she hath given to all nations to drink.'

and he shall rule them with a rod of iron--as the vessels of the potter they shall be broken--as I also have received from my Father;

For if God messengers who sinned did not spare, but with chains of thick gloom, having cast <FI>them<Fi> down to Tartarus, did deliver <FI>them<Fi> to judgment, having been reserved, — read the full passage →

In your own selves judge ye; is it seemly for a woman uncovered to pray to God?

for as through the disobedience of the one man, the many were constituted sinners: so also through the obedience of the one, shall the many be constituted righteous.

these all were continuing with one accord in prayer and supplication, with women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.

`According as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, he also who is eating me, even that one shall live because of me;

and he did cry in might--a great voice, saying, `Fall, fall did Babylon the great, and she became a habitation of demons, and a hold of every unclean spirit, and a hold of every unclean and hateful bird,

and he carried me away to a wilderness in the Spirit, and I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet-coloured beast, full of names of evil-speaking, having seven heads and ten horns,

And there came one of the seven messengers, who were having the seven vials, and he spake with me, saying to me, `Come, I will shew to thee the judgment of the great whore, who is sitting upon the many waters, — read the full passage →

And I saw another beast coming up out of the land, and it had two horns, like a lamb, and it was speaking as a dragon, — read the full passage →

And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and I saw out of the sea a beast coming up, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon its horns ten diadems, and upon its heads a name of evil speaking,

And there was seen another sign in the heaven, and, lo, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his head seven diadems,

And there was seen another sign in the heaven, and, lo, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his head seven diadems, — read the full passage →

Beloved, all diligence using to write to you concerning the common salvation, I had necessity to write to you, exhorting to agonize for the faith once delivered to the saints,

All these, then, being dissolved, what kind of persons doth it behove you to be in holy behaviours and pious acts?

and it will come--the day of the Lord--as a thief in the night, in which the heavens with a rushing noise will pass away, and the elements with burning heat be dissolved, and earth and the works in it shall be burnt up.

for overswellings of vanity speaking, they do entice in desires of the flesh--lasciviousnesses, those who had truly escaped from those conducting themselves in error,

no more in the desires of men, but in the will of God, to live the rest of the time in the flesh;