The Man and Woman Sin

3 The serpent was the shrewdest of all the wild animals the Lord God had made. One day he asked the woman, “Did God really say you must not eat the fruit from any of the trees in the garden?”

³ But I fear that somehow your pure and undivided devotion to Christ will be corrupted, just as Eve was deceived by the cunning ways of the serpent.

¹⁴ But I am not surprised! Even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.

⁹ This great dragon—the ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, the one deceiving the whole world—was thrown down to the earth with all his angels.

² He seized the dragon—that old serpent, who is the devil, Satan—and bound him in chains for a thousand years.

³ During that time the devil^[a] came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become loaves of bread.”

¹⁶ “Look, I am sending you out as sheep among wolves. So be as shrewd as snakes and harmless as doves.

¹³ Then the Lord God asked the woman, “What have you done?”

“The serpent deceived me,” she replied. “That’s why I ate it.”

¹⁴ Then the Lord God said to the serpent,

⁶ and said, “If you are the Son of God, jump off! For the Scriptures say,

27 In that day the Lord will take his terrible, swift sword and punish Leviathan,^[a] the swiftly moving serpent, the coiling, writhing serpent. He will kill the dragon of the sea.