The Westminster Confession of Faith
Chapter VI
Of the Fall of Man, of Sin, and the Punishment thereof
1. Our first parents, being seduced by the subtilty and temptations of Satan, sinned, in eating the forbidden fruit.(1) This their sin, God was pleased, according to His wise and holy counsel, to permit, having purposed to order it to His own glory.(2)
Scripture Proof (1)
EAV Gen 3:13 And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
EAV 2Co 11:3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled1 Eve through his subtilty,2 so your minds should be corrupted3 from the simplicity4 that is in Christ.
Scripture Proof (2)
EAV Rom 11:32 For God hath concluded them all1 in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.
2. By this sin they fell from their original righteousness and communion, with God,(3) and so became dead in sin,(4) and wholly defiled in all the parts and faculties of soul and body.(5)
Scripture Proof (3)
EAV Gen 3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant1 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.
EAV Gen 3:7 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.1
EAV Gen 3:8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking1 in the garden in the cool2 of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
EAV Ecc 7:29 Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
EAV Rom 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Scripture Proof (4)
EAV Gen 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.1
EAV Eph 2:1 And you hath he quickened,1 who were dead in trespasses and sins;
Scripture Proof (5)
EAV *** 1:5 For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain1 elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:
EAV Gen 6:5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts1 of his heart was only evil continually.2
EAV Jer 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
EAV Rom 3:10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
EAV Rom 3:11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
EAV Rom 3:12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
EAV Rom 3:13 Their throat is an open sepulchre;1 with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
EAV Rom 3:14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
EAV Rom 3:15 Their feet are swift to shed blood:
EAV Rom 3:16 Destruction and misery are in their ways:
EAV Rom 3:17 And the way of peace have they not known:
EAV Rom 3:18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.
3. They being the root of all mankind, the guilt of this sin was imputed;(6) and the same death in sin, and corrupted nature, conveyed to all their posterity descending from them by ordinary generation.(7)
Scripture Proof (6)
EAV Gen 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
EAV Gen 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish1 the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth2 upon the earth.
EAV Gen 2:16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
EAV Gen 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.1
EAV Act 17:26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
EAV Rom 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for1 that all have sinned:
EAV Rom 5:15 But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
EAV Rom 5:16 And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.
EAV Rom 5:17 For if by one man's offence1 death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)
EAV Rom 5:18 Therefore as by the offence of one1 judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one2 the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
EAV Rom 5:19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
EAV 1Co 15:21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
EAV 1Co 15:22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
EAV 1Co 15:45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening1 spirit.
EAV 1Co 15:49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
Scripture Proof (7)
EAV Psa 51:5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
EAV Gen 5:3 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
EAV Job 14:4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
EAV Job 15:14 What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
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That we are not "free indeed" unless we cease sinning? 
