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    RESPONSIBILITY FOR SIN

     

    1. Adam
      1. Genesis 2:17; 3:1-6 “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.  The woman did eat and gave also unto her husband with her and he did eat.”
      2. Romans 5:12 “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.”

     

    1. Cain, Able and Seth
      1. Genesis 4:1-26 “And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain and Abel.  And the Lord had respect unto Abel.  But unto Cain He had not respect.  If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted?  And if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door.  Cain slew Abel his brother.  And Adam knew his wife again, and she bare a son and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.   And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the Lord.”

     

    1. Jacob and Esau
      1. Genesis 25:f “And the Lord said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and the two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.”

    b.        Malachi 1:2-3 “Saith the Lord: Yet I loved Jacob and I hated Esau.”

     

    1. Exodus 34:7 “Visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon he children, and upon the children’s children unto the third and fourth generation.”(Exodus 20:5)

     

    1. Leviticus 26:39-46 “The iniquities of thief father shall they pine away with them.  If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, then I will remember my covenant with Jacob.”

     

    1. Deuteronomy 24:16 “The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.” (II Kings 14:6; II Chronicles 25:4)

     

    1. Kings and sons
      1. David and Absalom (II Samuel 5:14)
      2. Child of Bathsheba (II Samuel 11:27/ 12:14, 18)
      3. Solomon and Rehoboam (I Kings 11:43F)
      4. Rehoboam and Abijam (I Kings 14:31f)
      5. Abijam and Asa (I Kings 15:8)
      6. Asa and Jehoshaphat (I Kings 15:24f; 22:42f)

     

    1. Priests and sons
      1. Eli, Hophni and Phinehas (I Samuel 1:3; 3:20; 8:1f)

     

    1. Matthew 12:36-36 “Every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.  For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by they words thou shalt be condemned.”

     

    1. Matthew 13:5-56 “Joseph and Mary, James, Joses, Simon, Judas and sisters.” (John 7:5)

     

    1. Luke 15:11-32 “Father, elder son and younger son.”

     

    1. Luke 16:2 “Give an account of thy stewardship.”

     

    1. John 9:2 “Who did sin, this man or his parents?”

     

    1. Acts 16:1 “Eunis and Gentile father of Timothy”

     

    1. Hebrews 13:16 “Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.”

     

    1. Romans 14:1-12 “Everyone of us shall give account of himself to God.  We shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.”

     

    1. Romans 3:23 be condemned.” “For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.”
     
     

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