Genesis 3

Which worship songs are based on Genesis 3?

  1. Lizards of Malice — Seventh Day Slumber (2024) Genesis 3:1-5

    The portrayal of a serpent using deceptive speech to manipulate others strongly evokes the serpent’s cunning temptation in Eden. The song applies that biblical image to hidden agents of corruption rather than retelling the Fall.

  2. WHAT DO YOU SEE (feat. Jon Keith) — indie tribe & nobigdyl. & Mogli the Iceburg & Torey D'Shaun & Jon Keith (2026) Genesis 3:6

    The lyrics reference the act of eating from the forbidden tree, alluding to the original sin committed by Adam and Eve, which highlights the theme of inherited flaws and the struggle with sin.

  3. I Know A Name - Live — Elevation Worship (2025) Genesis 3:15

    The heel and crushed serpent's head directly invoke the promised conflict between the woman's offspring and the serpent, interpreted here christologically.

  4. I Know A Name — Elevation Worship (2025) Genesis 3:15

    The wounded heel defeating the serpent's head unmistakably invokes the judgment against the serpent, traditionally read by Christians as anticipating Christ's victory over evil.

  5. Clamo A Cristo — Elevation Español (2025) Genesis 3:15

    Christ’s defeat of the serpent evokes the promise that the woman’s offspring would crush the serpent’s head, traditionally understood by Christians as anticipating Christ’s victory over Satan.

  6. Wake Me Up — Living Scars (2023) Genesis 3:15

    The appeal for the serpent’s head to be crushed invokes God’s judgment against the serpent in Eden. The accompanying emphasis on deception also fits the serpent’s role in the Fall narrative.

  7. All I Need — 1K Phew (2025) Genesis 3:15

    The song references stomping on the serpent, which alludes to the biblical imagery of victory over evil as found in Genesis 3:15, where the serpent's head is crushed as a symbol of triumph over sin.

  8. Far as the Curse Is Found — Stillcreek (2025) Genesis 3:17-19

    The imagery of 'gardens will grow up from this cursed ground' reflects the biblical narrative of creation and the curse that followed the Fall, suggesting a restoration of beauty and life from a place of brokenness.

  9. Kindle — Between Thieves (2025) Genesis 3:19

    The line 'Ashes to ashes and dust to dust' reflects the biblical phrase from Genesis 3:19, which speaks to human mortality and the return to the earth.

  10. The Prodigal — Josiah Queen (2023) Genesis 3:22-24

    Eden is presented as the lost place of communion with God toward which the speaker longs to return, drawing on humanity’s original home and subsequent exclusion from it.

  11. Most High 3 — Ty Brasel & nobigdyl. (2025) Genesis 3

    The song references the apple not falling far from the tree, directly connecting to the story of Adam and Eve, emphasizing the theme of inherited sin.

Genesis 3 (King James Version)

1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:

3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.

9 And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?

10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.

11 And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?

12 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.

13 And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

20 And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.

22 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

23 Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.