⁵ Thus all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred thirty years, and he died.^(A)

¹¹ Thus all the days of Enosh were nine hundred five years, and he died.^(A)

⁸ Thus all the days of Seth were nine hundred twelve years, and he died.

¹⁴ We must all die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up. But God will not take away a life; he will devise plans so as not to keep an outcast banished forever from his presence.^[a](A)

²¹ For since death came through a human, the resurrection of the dead has also come through a human,^{(A) 22} for as all die in Adam, so all will be made alive in Christ.

²⁷ And just as it is appointed for mortals to die once and after that the judgment,^(A)

Adam and Christ

¹² Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death came through sin, and so death spread to all because all have sinned^(A)— ¹³ for sin was indeed in the world before the law, but sin is not reckoned when there is no law. ¹⁴ Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who did not sin in the likeness of Adam, who is a pattern of the one who was to come.^(B)

⁴ Know that all lives are mine; the life of the parent as well as the life of the child is mine: it is only the person who sins who shall die.^(A)

⁷ and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the breath^[a] returns to God who gave it.^(A)