Bible: Rom. 1:21, 23, 25, 28; 3:9-18

1:21 For although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or give him thanks, but they became futile in their thoughts and their senseless hearts 1  were darkened. 1:23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for an image resembling mortal human beings 2  or birds or four-footed animals 3  or reptiles.

1:25 They 4  exchanged the truth of God for a lie 5  and worshiped and served the creation 6  rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.

1:28 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, 7  God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what should not be done. 8 

3:9 But the Lord God called to 1  the man and said to him, “Where are you? 2  3:10 The man replied, 3 I heard you moving about 4  in the orchard, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.” 3:11 And the Lord God 5  said, “Who told you that you were naked? 6  Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from? 7  3:12 The man said, “The woman whom you gave me, she gave 8  me some fruit 9  from the tree and I ate it.” 3:13 So the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this 10  you have done?” And the woman replied, “The serpent 11  tricked 12  me, and I ate.”

3:14 The Lord God said to the serpent, 13 

“Because you have done this,

cursed 14  are you above all the wild beasts

and all the living creatures of the field!

On your belly you will crawl 15 

and dust you will eat 16  all the days of your life.

3:15 And I will put hostility 17  between you and the woman

and between your offspring and her offspring; 18 

her offspring will attack 19  your head,

and 20  you 21  will attack her offspring’s heel.” 22 

3:16 To the woman he said,

I will greatly increase 23  your labor pains; 24 

with pain you will give birth to children.

You will want to control your husband, 25 

but he will dominate 26  you.”

3:17 But to Adam 27  he said,

Because you obeyed 28  your wife

and ate from the tree about which I commanded you,

‘You must not eat from it,’

cursed is the ground 29  thanks to you; 30 

in painful toil you will eat 31  of it all the days of your life.

3:18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you,

but you will eat the grain 32  of the field.

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