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Genesis 3:6
The 2026 edition cites 2 passages containing Genesis 3:6, each printed here in the KJV with every place in the Constitution that cites it.
Genesis 3:6
6 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.
Cited by 4 places in the Constitution
Westminster Confession of Faith 2
- CF 4.2
After God had made all other creatures, He created man, male and female, with reasonable and immortal souls, endued with knowledge, righteousness, and true…
- CF 9.2
Man, in his state of innocency, had freedom and power to will and to do that which was good, and well pleasing to God; but yet mutably, so that he might fall…
Larger Catechism 1
- LC 17
After God had made all other creatures, he created man, male and female; formed the body of the man of the dust of the ground, and the woman of the rib of the…
Shorter Catechism 1
- SC 15
The sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate wherein they were created, was their eating the forbidden fruit.
Genesis 3:6-8
6 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.
7 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.
8 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.
Cited by 3 places in the Constitution
Westminster Confession of Faith 1
- CF 6.2
By this sin they fell from their original righteousness and communion with God, and so became dead in sin, and wholly defiled in all the faculties and parts of…
Larger Catechism 1
- LC 21
Our first parents being left to the freedom of their own will, through the temptation of Satan, transgressed the commandment of God, in eating the forbidden…
Shorter Catechism 1
- SC 13
Our first parents, being left to the freedom of their own will, fell from the estate wherein they were created, by sinning against God.