Romans 5:12

Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.

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One song meets this passage

  • “Cause we are born innocent”

    Adia · Sarah McLachlan

    strains against Romans 5:12

    Scripture teaches we are born into sin's effects, not moral innocence; the song's comforting claim stands in tension with that, even as it reaches for grace.

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