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But the snake said to the woman: “You certainly will not die!(A)

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13 Because God did not make death,(A)
    nor does he rejoice in the destruction of the living.

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24 But by the envy[a] of the devil, death entered the world,
    and they who are allied with him experience it.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 2:24 Envy: perhaps because Adam was in the image of God or because Adam had control over all creation. Devil: the first biblical text to equate the serpent of Gn 3 with the devil.

10 and said, “You son of the devil, you enemy of all that is right, full of every sort of deceit and fraud. Will you not stop twisting the straight paths of [the] Lord?

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Whoever sins belongs to the devil, because the devil has sinned from the beginning. Indeed, the Son of God was revealed to destroy the works of the devil.(A) No one who is begotten by God commits sin, because God’s seed remains in him; he cannot sin because he is begotten by God.[a] 10 In this way, the children of God and the children of the devil are made plain; no one who fails to act in righteousness belongs to God, nor anyone who does not love his brother.

III. Love for One Another

11 [b]For this is the message you have heard from the beginning: we should love one another,(B) 12 unlike Cain who belonged to the evil one and slaughtered his brother. Why did he slaughter him? Because his own works were evil, and those of his brother righteous.(C) 13 Do not be amazed, [then,] brothers, if the world hates you.(D) 14 We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers. Whoever does not love remains in death.(E) 15 Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.(F)

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Footnotes

  1. 3:9 A habitual sinner is a child of the devil, while a child of God, who by definition is in fellowship with God, cannot sin. Seed: Christ or the Spirit who shares the nature of God with the Christian.
  2. 3:11–18 Love, even to the point of self-sacrifice, is the point of the commandment. The story of Cain and Abel (1 Jn 3:12–15; Gn 4:1–16) presents the rivalry of two brothers, in a contrast of evil and righteousness, where envy led to murder. For Christians, proof of deliverance is love toward others, after the example of Christ. This includes concrete acts of charity, out of our material abundance.