Westminster Larger Catechism · 1647

Q26. How is original sin conveyed from our first parents unto their posterity?

Original sin is conveyed from our first parents unto their posterity by natural generation, so as all that proceed from them in that way are conceived and born in sin.
Answer · Westminster Larger Catechism

Scripture proofs

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    Psalms 51:5

    Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

    Job 14:4

    Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

    Job 15:14

    What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

    John 3:6

    That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Proof texts as given in the original; verse text from the King James Version.