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Poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

Her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she ate: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her works gave signs of woe That all was lost.

Paradise Lost · 1667

★ 7.1

Poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

Of Man's First Disobedience, and the fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, Sing, Heav'nly Muse.

Paradise Lost · 1667

★ 7.1

Scripture · Religious literature

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

Genesis 3:19 · 1405 BC

★ 6.2

Scripture · Religious literature

And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

Genesis 3:4-5

1405 BC

★ 5.4

Scripture · Religious literature

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. And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day.

Genesis 3:7-8

1405 BC

★ 5.4

Comedy special · Comedy (stand up)

You're born a sinner. By being born you are a sinner and you're going to hell. But you can just apologize and then you can go to heaven. No big deal. If you're a murderer—same thing, it's just apologize and go to heaven.

Sarah Silverman

We are Miracles · 2013

★ 5.2

Scripture · Religious literature

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. And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life.

Genesis 3:13-14

1405 BC

★ 4.5

Scripture · Religious literature

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.

Genesis 3:6

1405 BC

★ 4.5

Scripture · Religious literature

And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die."

Genesis 2:16-17

1405 BC

★ 4.5

Religious literature

The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls.

Confessions · 400

★ 4.0

Scripture · Religious literature

And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.

Genesis 3:12

1405 BC

★ 3.8

Scripture · Religious literature

In sorrow thou shalt bring forth children.

Genesis 3:16 · 1405 BC

★ 3.8

Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.

Honore de Balzac

La Comedie humaine · 1842

★ 3.8

Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.

Pudd'nhead Wilson · 1894

★ 3.8

Scripture · Religious literature

Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Psalm 51:5

450 BC

★ 3.6

Scripture · Religious literature

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.

Romans 3:23 · 56

★ 3.5

Pamphlet · Political literature

We must soften into a credulity below the milkiness of infancy, to think all men virtuous. We must be tainted with a malignity truly diabolical, to believe all the world to be equally wicked and corrupt.

1770

★ 3.5

Poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

The infernal serpent; he it was, whose guile, Stirr'd up with envy and revenge, deceiv'd The mother of mankind.

Paradise Lost · 1667

★ 2.2

Scripture · Religious literature

For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

Ecclesiastes 7:20

931 BC

★ 2.1

Scripture · Religious literature

Just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned.

Romans 5:12 · 56

★ 2.1

Scripture · Religious literature

For the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth.

Genesis 8:21 · 1405 BC

★ 2.0

Scripture · Religious literature

The whole world lieth in wickedness.

1st John 5:19

95

★ 2.0

Scripture · Religious literature

Ye are fallen from grace.

Galatians 5:4 · 50

★ 1.9

Essay · Magazine

That Calvinistic sense of Innate Depravity and Original Sin, from whose visitations, in some shape or other, no deeply thinking mind is always and wholly free.

Herman Melville

1850

★ 1.9

Scripture · Religious literature

Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

Proverbs 20:9

686 BC

★ 1.8

Is it not a fundamental error to consider children as innocent beings, whose little weaknesses may perhaps want some correction, rather than as beings who bring into the world a corrupt nature and evil dispositions, which it should be the great end of education to rectify?

Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education · 1799

★ 1.8

Scripture · Religious literature

Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

Romans 5:18-19 · 56

★ 1.2

Scripture · Religious literature

Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field.

Genesis 3:1

1405 BC

★ 1.1