From Adam to Noah

5 This is the written account^(A) of Adam’s family line.^(B)

When God created mankind, he made them in the likeness of God.^{(C) 2} He created them^(D) male and female^(E) and blessed them. And he named them “Mankind”^[a] when they were created.

³ When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image;^(F) and he named him Seth.^(G)

Psalm 8^[a]

For the director of music. According to gittith.^[b] A psalm of David.

¹³ Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! Nevertheless, in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it used what is good^(A) to bring about my death,^(B) so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.

¹⁴ We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual,^(C) sold^(D) as a slave to sin.^{(E) 15} I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.^{(F) 16} And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good.^{(G) 17} As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me.^{(H) 18} For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature.^[a](I) For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. ¹⁹ For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing.^{(J) 20} Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.^(K)

²¹ So I find this law at work:^(L) Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. ²² For in my inner being^(M) I delight in God’s law;^{(N) 23} but I see another law at work in me, waging war^(O) against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin^(P) at work within me. ²⁴ What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death?^{(Q) 25} Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!^(R)

So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law,^(S) but in my sinful nature^[b] a slave to the law of sin.^(T)

³⁰ It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus,^(A) who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness,^(B) holiness^(C) and redemption.^(D)

¹⁸ And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate^[a](A) the Lord’s glory,^(B) are being transformed into his image^(C) with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

²² You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off^(A) your old self,^(B) which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;^{(C) 23} to be made new in the attitude of your minds;^{(D) 24} and to put on^(E) the new self,^(F) created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.^(G)