¹⁷ but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not ^[a]eat, for on the day that you eat from it ^(A)you will certainly die.”

²² Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of ^(A)Us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might reach out with his hand, and take fruit also from ^(B)the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”— ²³ therefore the Lord God sent him out of the Garden of Eden, to cultivate the ground from which he was taken. ²⁴ So ^(C)He drove the man out; and at the ^(D)east of the Garden of Eden He stationed the ^(E)cherubim and the flaming sword which turned every direction to guard the way to ^(F)the tree of life.

^7 (A)The one who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. ^(B)To the one who overcomes, I will grant to eat from ^(C)the tree of life, which is in the ^(D)Paradise of God.’

²⁴ “Truly, truly, I say to you, the one who hears My word, and ^(A)believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and ^(B)does not come into judgment, but has ^(C)passed out of death into life.