Acts 17:26

⁷Remember the days of old. Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you. ⁸When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the children of men, he set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel.

²⁰The man called his wife Eve because she would be the mother of all the living.

¹⁰Don’t we all have one father? Hasn’t one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

¹²Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin, so death passed to all men because all sinned. ¹³For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law. ¹⁴Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren’t like Adam’s disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come.

¹⁵But the free gift isn’t like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many. ¹⁶The gift is not as through one who sinned; for the judgment came by one to condemnation, but the free gift followed many trespasses to justification. ¹⁷For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.

¹⁸So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life. ¹⁹For as through the one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.

²²For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

⁴⁷The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven.

⁵Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass.

¹⁵My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.

²³He increases the nations, and he destroys them. He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive.

¹⁹These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated.