^44 (A)You are of ^(B)your father the devil, and ^(C)you want to do the desires of your father. ^(D)He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because ^(E)there is no truth in him. Whenever he tells ^[a]a lie, he ^(F)speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of ^[b]lies.

²¹ He said, ‘I will go out and be ^(A)a deceiving spirit in the mouths of all his prophets.’ Then He said, ‘You shall ^[a]entice him, and you will also prevail. Go out and do so.’

¹⁰ and said, “^[a]You who are full of all deceit and fraud, you ^(A)son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not stop making crooked ^(B)the straight ways of the Lord?

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.

¹⁴ But I confess this to you, that in accordance with ^[a](A)the Way, which they call a ^(B)sect, I do serve ^(C)the God of our fathers, ^(D)believing everything that is in accordance with the Law and is written in the Prophets;

³¹ Do we then nullify ^[a]the Law through faith? ^(A)Far from it! On the contrary, we ^(B)establish the Law.

¹³ for it is ^(A)not the hearers ^[a]of the Law who are ^[b]righteous before God, but the doers ^[c]of the Law who will be justified.

^7 (A)What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? ^(B)[a]Far from it! On the contrary, ^(C)I would not have come to know sin except ^[b]through the Law; for I would not have known about ^[c]coveting if the Law had not said, “^(D)You shall not ^[d]covet.”