Genesis 3:15

I will make you and the woman enemies, and your offspring and hers. He will strike your head, and you will strike his heel."
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Treated in 18 passages across the library.

  1. The Big Story · Ochorus Originals

    The Day Everything Broke cites Genesis 3:15

    …between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel” (Genesis 3:15). A battle is coming. One day a descendant of the woman, a “He”, will crush the serpent’s…

  2. Selected Sermons of George Whitefield · George Whitefield

    The Seed of the Woman, and the Seed of the Serpent cites Genesis 3:15

    Genesis 3:15 — “And I will put Enmity between thee and the Woman, and between thy Seed and her Seed…

  3. Communion with God · John Owen

    Of communion with Christ in a conjugal relation, in its consequential affections cites Gen. iii. 15

    …was enough) that God gave Adam in his inexpressible distress, to relieve and comfort him, Gen. iii. 15. Eve perhaps supposed that the promised seed had been born in her first-born, when she…

  4. Communion with God · John Owen

    Of communion with Christ in holiness cites Gen. iii. 15

    …which are the fruits of the covenant, being himself the original promise thereof, Gen. iii. 15; the whole being so “ordered in all things, and made sure,” 2 Sam. xxiii. 5, that the…

  5. He Holds My Tomorrows · Gareth Evans

    Cain and Abel cites Genesis 3:15

    …promised by God in His declaration of war against the serpent who had deceived her (Genesis 3:15). She named him Cain - which means “spear” - saying “I have a man from the Lord.” She…

  6. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 1, Chapter 14 — In the Creation of the World, and All Things in It, the True God Distinguished by Certain Marks from Fictitious Gods cites Gen. 3:15

    …is common to all the children of God. But as the promise of bruising Satan’s head (Gen. 3:15) applies alike to Christ and to all his members, I deny that believers can ever be…

  7. They Were Young – Book 2: Tested · Ochorus Originals

    Perpetua: What a Thing Is Called cites Genesis 3:15

    …an echo of the Bible’s first promise, that the woman’s offspring “will crush your head” (Genesis 3:15). Perpetua did not explain her dream that way herself. But she clearly understood who the…

  8. Rooted – 30 Days with God for Youth – Book 1 · Ochorus Originals

    Day 8 — A Promise in the Dark cites Genesis 3:15

    …He hinted that someday a child would come who would crush the serpent (you can find it in Genesis 3:15). And over hundreds of years, God kept adding more and more to that promise through His…

  9. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 2, Chapter 10 — The Resemblance Between the Old Testament and the New cites Gen. 3:15

    …Accordingly, at the beginning, when the first promise of salvation was given to Adam (Gen. 3:15), only a few slender sparks beamed forth: additions being afterwards made, a greater…

  10. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 2, Chapter 13 — Christ Clothed with the True Substance of Human Nature cites Gen. 3:15

    …we are in this respect preferred. And if due weight is given to the testimony of Moses (Gen. 3:15), when he says that the seed of the woman would bruise the head of the serpent, the…

  11. The Key Teachings of Martin Luther · Ochorus Originals

    The Old Evil Foe cites GENESIS 3:15

    …between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. GENESIS 3:15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing…

  12. The Cheque Book of the Bank of Faith · Charles H. Spurgeon

    The Month of January cites Gen. 3:15

    …between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel." Gen. 3:15 This is the first promise to fallen man. It contains the whole gospel, and the essence of…

  13. Freedom of the Will · Jonathan Edwards

    Section XI. The Evidence of Gods Certain Foreknowledge of the Volitions of Moral Agents cites Gen. iii. 15

    …of the salvation of the Messiah, and his victory over Satan, made to our first parents, (Gen. iii. 15.) if there be no certain Prescience of the volitions of moral Agents, must have no better…

  14. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

    The Righteousness of Faith cites Gen. 3:15

    …and his seed, concerning the Seed of the Woman, who should “bruise the serpent’s head.” (Gen. 3:15.) It was a little more clearly revealed to Abraham, by the angel of God from heaven…

  15. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

    The End of Christ’s Coming cites Gen. 3:15

    …what is real religion: A restoration of man by Him that bruises the serpent’s head [Gen. 3:15], to all that the old serpent deprived him of; a restoration not only to the favour but…

  16. Holiness · J. C. Ryle

    Christ Is All cites Gen. iii. 15

    …of a woman should overcome the devil and win for sinful man an entrance to eternal life. (Gen. iii. 15.) Christ was held up as the true light of the world, in the very day of the fall; and…

  17. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    Christ's Humiliation in His Incarnation cites Gen 3:15

    …redemption. Why was Christ born of a woman? (1.) That God might fulfill that promise in Gen 3:15, ‘The seed of the woman shall break the serpent’s head.’ (2.) Christ was born of a woman…

  18. Old Paths · J. C. Ryle

    Our Sins! cites Gen. iii. 15

    …God mercifully engaged that “the Seed of the woman should bruise the serpent’s head.” (Gen. iii. 15.) One born of woman should appear one day, and deliver the children of Adam from Satan’s…

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