Chapter 2
1 The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it
2 but God did say, 'You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.' "
3 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God really say, 'You must not eat from any tree in the garden'?"
4 The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden.
5 "You will not certainly die," the serpent said to the woman.
6 "For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
7 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.
8 Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
9 You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
10 Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes.
11 Its tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that it might devour her child the moment he was born.
12 The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
13 He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.
14 Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: "Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Messiah. For the accuser of our brothers and sisters, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down.
15 For this reason, when I could stand it no longer, I sent to find out about your faith. I was afraid that in some way the tempter had tempted you and that our labors might have been in vain.
16 Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
17 After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.
18 The tempter came to him and said, "If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread."
19 He is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he.
20 The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.
21 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
22 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
23 They triumphed over him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.
24 The LORD saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time.
25 The LORD regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled.
26 So the LORD said, "I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them."
27 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.