The Fall of Mankind

3 Now ^(A)the serpent was more cunning than any animal of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden’?”

^4 (A)The serpent said to the woman, “You certainly will not die!

⁵ For God knows that on the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and ^(A)you will ^[a]become like God, knowing good and evil.”

³ But I am afraid that, as the ^(A)serpent deceived Eve by his trickery, your minds will be led astray from sincere and pure devotion to Christ.