Catechesis

Westminster Shorter Catechism

Question 19

What is the misery of that estate whereinto man fell?

Scripture

  1. Genesis 3:8 [1]
    And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden. (ESV)
  2. Genesis 3:24 [1]
    He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life. (ESV)
  3. Ephesians 2:3 [2]
    among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. (ESV)
  4. Romans 5:14 [3]
    Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come. (ESV)
  5. Romans 6:23 [3]
    For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (ESV)