Genesis 3:1
The Temptation and the Fall Now the serpent was more shrewd than any of the wild animals that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman,“Is it really true that God said,‘You must not eat from any tree of the orchard’?”
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- 2 Cor 11:3 : 3 But I am afraid that just as the serpent deceived Eve by his treachery, your minds may be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
- Rev 12:9 : 9 So that huge dragon– the ancient serpent, the one called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world– was thrown down to the earth, and his angels along with him.
- Rev 20:2 : 2 He seized the dragon– the ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan– and tied him up for a thousand years.
- 2 Cor 11:14 : 14 And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.
- Matt 4:3 : 3 The tempter came and said to him,“If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become bread.”
- Matt 10:16 : 16 Persecution of Disciples“I am sending you out like sheep surrounded by wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.
- Gen 3:13-15 : 13 So the LORD God said to the woman,“What is this you have done?” And the woman replied,“The serpent tricked me, and I ate.” 14 The LORD God said to the serpent,“Because you have done this, cursed are you above all the cattle and all the living creatures of the field! On your belly you will crawl and dust you will eat all the days of your life. 15 And I will put hostility between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring; her offspring will attack your head, and you will attack her offspring’s heel.”
- Num 22:28-29 : 28 Then the LORD opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam,“What have I done to you that you have beaten me these three times?” 29 And Balaam said to the donkey,“You have made me look stupid; I wish there were a sword in my hand, for I would kill you right now.”
- Eccl 4:10 : 10 For if they fall, one will help his companion up, but pity the person who falls down and has no one to help him up.
- Isa 27:1 : 1 At that time the LORD will punish with his destructive, great, and powerful sword Leviathan the fast-moving serpent, Leviathan the squirming serpent; he will kill the sea monster.
- Matt 4:6 : 6 and said to him,“If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down. For it is written,‘He will command his angels concerning you’ and‘with their hands they will lift you up, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’”
- Matt 4:9 : 9 And he said to him,“I will give you all these things if you throw yourself to the ground and worship me.”
- 1 Pet 3:7 : 7 Husbands, in the same way, treat your wives with consideration as the weaker partners and show them honor as fellow heirs of the grace of life. In this way nothing will hinder your prayers.
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- Gen 3:2-1817 verses90%
2 The woman said to the serpent,“We may eat of the fruit from the trees of the orchard;
3 but concerning the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the orchard God said,‘You must not eat from it, and you must not touch it, or else you will die.’”
4 The serpent said to the woman,“Surely you will not die,
5 for God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will open and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
6 When the woman saw that the tree produced fruit that was good for food, was attractive to the eye, and was desirable for making one wise, she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some of it to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.
7 Then the eyes of both of them opened, and they knew they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
8 The Judgment Oracles of God at the Fall Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God moving about in the orchard at the breezy time of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the orchard.
9 But the LORD God called to the man and said to him,“Where are you?”
10 The man replied,“I heard you moving about in the orchard, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.”
11 And the LORD God said,“Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
12 The man said,“The woman whom you gave me, she gave me some fruit from the tree and I ate it.”
13 So the LORD God said to the woman,“What is this you have done?” And the woman replied,“The serpent tricked me, and I ate.”
14 The LORD God said to the serpent,“Because you have done this, cursed are you above all the cattle and all the living creatures of the field! On your belly you will crawl and dust you will eat all the days of your life.
15 And I will put hostility between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring; her offspring will attack your head, and you will attack her offspring’s heel.”
16 To the woman he said,“I will greatly increase your labor pains; with pain you will give birth to children. You will want to control your husband, but he will dominate you.”
17 But to Adam he said,“Because you obeyed your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you,‘You must not eat from it,’ the ground is cursed because of you; in painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you, but you will eat the grain of the field.
- Gen 3:21-244 verses76%
21 The LORD God made garments from skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them.
22 And the LORD God said,“Now that the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, he must not be allowed to stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”
23 So the LORD God expelled him from the orchard in Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken.
24 When he drove the man out, he placed on the eastern side of the orchard in Eden angelic sentries who used the flame of a whirling sword to guard the way to the tree of life.
- Gen 2:15-173 verses74%
15 The LORD God took the man and placed him in the orchard in Eden to care for it and to maintain it.
16 Then the LORD God commanded the man,“You may freely eat fruit from every tree of the orchard,
17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will surely die.”
- Gen 2:8-92 verses74%
8 The LORD God planted an orchard in the east, in Eden; and there he placed the man he had formed.
9 The LORD God made all kinds of trees grow from the soil, every tree that was pleasing to look at and good for food.(Now the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil were in the middle of the orchard.)
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14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman, because she was fully deceived, fell into transgression.
- Job 1:7-93 verses71%
7 The LORD said to Satan,“Where have you come from?” And Satan answered the LORD,“From roving about on the earth, and from walking back and forth across it.”
8 So the LORD said to Satan,“Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil.”
9 Then Satan answered the LORD,“Is it for nothing that Job fears God?
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3 But I am afraid that just as the serpent deceived Eve by his treachery, your minds may be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
- Job 2:2-43 verses69%
2 And the LORD said to Satan,“Where do you come from?” Satan answered the LORD,“From roving about on the earth, and from walking back and forth across it.”
3 Then the LORD said to Satan,“Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a pure and upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil. And he still holds firmly to his integrity, so that you stirred me up to destroy him without reason.”
4 But Satan answered the LORD,“Skin for skin! Indeed, a man will give up all that he has to save his life!
- Gen 1:28-292 verses69%
28 God blessed them and said to them,“Be fruitful and multiply! Fill the earth and subdue it! Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the ground.”
29 Then God said,“I now give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the entire earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.
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15 Then the serpent spouted water like a river out of his mouth after the woman in an attempt to sweep her away by a flood,
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26 Then God said,“Let us make humankind in our image, after our likeness, so they may rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move on the earth.”
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19 The LORD God formed out of the ground every living animal of the field and every bird of the air. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them, and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.
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11 God said,“Let the land produce vegetation: plants yielding seeds and trees on the land bearing fruit with seed in it, according to their kinds.” It was so.
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7 Is it not true that if you do what is right, you will be fine? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at the door. It desires to dominate you, but you must subdue it.”
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11 If the snake should bite before it is charmed, the snake charmer is in trouble.
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22 Then the LORD God made a woman from the part he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.