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#### Shorter Catechism
<span class="q">Q 17.</span> Into what estate did the fall bring mankind?
<span class="q">A.</span> The fall brought mankind into an estate of sin and misery.[^fnref:wsc1]
[^fnref:wsc1]: <div class="esv"><h5>Genesis 3:16-19</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p01003016.01-1">To the woman he said,</p> <div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p01003016.06-1">“I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing;<br /> <span class="indent"></span>in pain you shall bring forth children.<br /> Your desire shall be for your husband,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and he shall rule over you.”</p> </div> <p id="p01003017.01-1">And to Adam he said,</p> <div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p01003017.06-1">“Because you have listened to the voice of your wife<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and have eaten of the tree<br /> of which I commanded you,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>‘You shall not eat of it,’<br /> cursed is the ground because of you;<br /> <span class="indent"></span>in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;<br /> thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you;<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and you shall eat the plants of the field.<br /> By the sweat of your face<br /> <span class="indent"></span>you shall eat bread,<br /> till you return to the ground,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>for out of it you were taken;<br /> for you are dust,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and to dust you shall return.”</p> </div> </div><h5>Genesis 3:23</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p01003023.01-2">therefore the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span> God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.</p> </div><h5>Romans 3:16</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p45003016.01-3"><span class="indent"></span>in their paths are ruin and misery,</p> </div> </div><h5>Romans 5:12</h5> <div class="esv-text"> <p id="p45005012.07-4">Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—</p> </div><h5>Ephesians 2:1</h5> <div class="esv-text"> <p id="p49002001.05-5"><span class="chapter-num" id="v49002001-5">2:1 </span>And you were dead in the trespasses and sins (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
#### Larger Catechism
<span class="q">Q 23.</span> Into what estate did the fall bring mankind?
<span class="q">A.</span> The fall brought mankind into an estate of sin and misery.[^fnref:wlc1]
[^fnref:wlc1]: <div class="esv"><h5>Genesis 3:16-19</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p01003016.01-1">To the woman he said,</p> <div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p01003016.06-1">“I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing;<br /> <span class="indent"></span>in pain you shall bring forth children.<br /> Your desire shall be for your husband,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and he shall rule over you.”</p> </div> <p id="p01003017.01-1">And to Adam he said,</p> <div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p01003017.06-1">“Because you have listened to the voice of your wife<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and have eaten of the tree<br /> of which I commanded you,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>‘You shall not eat of it,’<br /> cursed is the ground because of you;<br /> <span class="indent"></span>in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;<br /> thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you;<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and you shall eat the plants of the field.<br /> By the sweat of your face<br /> <span class="indent"></span>you shall eat bread,<br /> till you return to the ground,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>for out of it you were taken;<br /> for you are dust,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and to dust you shall return.”</p> </div> </div><h5>Romans 5:12</h5> <div class="esv-text"> <p id="p45005012.07-2">Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—</p> </div><h5>Ephesians 2:1</h5> <div class="esv-text"> <p id="p49002001.05-3"><span class="chapter-num" id="v49002001-3">2:1 </span>And you were dead in the trespasses and sins</p> </div><h5>Romans 3:16</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p45003016.01-4"><span class="indent"></span>in their paths are ruin and misery,</p> </div> </div><h5>Romans 3:23</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p45003023.01-5">for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>