Matthew 4:5-7

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⁵ Then the devil took him off to the holy city, and stood him on a pinnacle of the Temple.

⁶ “If you really are God’s son,” he said, “throw yourself down. The Bible does say, after all, that ‘God will give his angels a command about you’; and ‘they will carry you in their hands, so that you won’t hurt your foot against a stone.’ ”

⁷ “But the Bible also says,” replied Jesus, “that you mustn’t put the Lord your God to the test!”