The Temptation and the Fall

Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the wild animals that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You can’t eat from any tree in the garden’?”(A)

The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit from the trees in the garden. But about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God said, ‘You must not eat it or touch it, or you will die.’”(B)

“No! You will not die,” the serpent said to the woman.(C)

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Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field.”[a] And while they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.(A)

Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?”

“I don’t know,” he replied. “Am I my brother’s guardian?”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 4:8 Sam, LXX, Syr, Vg; MT omits Let’s go out to the field

“All the Jews know my way of life from my youth, which was spent from the beginning among my own nation and in Jerusalem.(A)

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But I fear that, as the serpent(A) deceived(B) Eve(C) by his cunning, your minds may be seduced from a complete and pure[a] devotion to Christ.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 11:3 Other mss omit and pure

The one who commits[a] sin is of the Devil, for the Devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God(A) was revealed(B) for this purpose: to destroy the Devil’s works. Everyone who has been born of God(C) does not sin,[b] because His[c] seed(D) remains in him; he is not able to sin,[d] because he has been born of God. 10 This is how God’s children—and the Devil’s children—are made evident.

The Command to Love

Whoever does not do what is right is not of God, especially the one who does not love his brother.(E) 11 For this is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another, 12 unlike Cain,(F) who was of the evil one(G) and murdered[e] his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his works were evil, and his brother’s were righteous. 13 Do not be surprised, brothers, if the world hates(H) you. 14 We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers. The one who does not love remains in death.(I) 15 Everyone who hates his brother(J) is a murderer,(K) and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 John 3:8 Or practices
  2. 1 John 3:9 Or not practice sin
  3. 1 John 3:9 God’s
  4. 1 John 3:9 Or to keep on sinning
  5. 1 John 3:12 Or slaughtered

So the great dragon was thrown out—the ancient serpent,(A) who is called the Devil[a] and Satan,[b](B) the one who deceives the whole world.(C) He was thrown to earth, and his angels with him.

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 12:9 In Gk, diabolos means slanderer.
  2. Revelation 12:9 In Hb, Satan means adversary.

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