John 8:44
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44 (A)You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. (B)He was a murderer from the beginning, and (C)does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. (D)When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
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Acts 13:10
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10 and said, “You (A)son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, full of all deceit and (B)villainy, will you not stop (C)making crooked (D)the straight paths of the Lord?
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1 John 3:12
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12 We should not be like (A)Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? (B)Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous.
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1 John 3:8-10
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8 (A)Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was (B)to destroy the works of the devil. 9 (C)No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's[a] seed abides in him; and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God. 10 By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, (D)nor is the one who (E)does not love his brother.
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- 1 John 3:9 Greek his
2 Corinthians 11:3
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3 But I am afraid that (A)as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts (B)will be led astray from a (C)sincere and (D)pure devotion to Christ.
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Revelation 12:9
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9 And (A)the great dragon was thrown down, (B)that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, (C)the deceiver of the whole world—(D)he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
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Revelation 20:7-10
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The Defeat of Satan
7 And when the thousand years are ended, (A)Satan will be released from his prison 8 and will come out (B)to deceive the nations that are at the four corners of the earth, (C)Gog and Magog, (D)to gather them for battle; their number is like the sand of the sea. 9 And (E)they marched up over the broad plain of the earth and surrounded (F)the camp of the saints and (G)the beloved city, but (H)fire came down from heaven[a] and consumed them, 10 and the devil (I)who had deceived them was (J)thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where (K)the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
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- Revelation 20:9 Some manuscripts from God, out of heaven, or out of heaven from God
John 8:41
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41 You are doing the works your father did.” They said to him, (A)“We were not born of sexual immorality. We have (B)one Father—even God.”
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John 8:38
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38 (A)I speak of what I have seen with my Father, and you do what you have heard (B)from your father.”
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Jude 6
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6 And (A)the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day—
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1 John 3:15
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15 (A)Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that (B)no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
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Matthew 13:38
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38 The field is the world, and the good seed is (A)the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are (B)the sons of the evil one,
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1 John 2:4
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4 Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments (A)is a liar, and (B)the truth is not in him,
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Genesis 3:15
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15 I will put enmity between you and the woman,
and between your offspring[a] and (A)her offspring;
(B)he shall bruise your head,
and you shall bruise his heel.”
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- Genesis 3:15 Hebrew seed; so throughout Genesis
Revelation 21:8
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8 (A)But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, (B)their portion will be in (C)the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is (D)the second death.”
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Acts 5:3
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3 But Peter said, “Ananias, why has (A)Satan filled your heart to lie (B)to the Holy Spirit and (C)to keep back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land?
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1 Chronicles 21:1
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David's Census Brings Pestilence
21 (A)Then (B)Satan stood against Israel and incited David to number Israel.
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Revelation 9:11
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11 They have (A)as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit. His name in Hebrew is (B)Abaddon, and in Greek he is called Apollyon.[a]
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- Revelation 9:11 Abaddon means destruction; Apollyon means destroyer
2 Corinthians 11:13-15
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13 For such men are (A)false apostles, (B)deceitful workmen, (C)disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. 14 And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as (D)an angel of light. 15 So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as (E)servants of righteousness. (F)Their end will correspond to their deeds.
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John 6:70
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70 Jesus answered them, (A)“Did I not choose you, (B)the twelve? And yet one of you is (C)a devil.”
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2 Chronicles 18:20-22
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20 Then a spirit came forward and stood before the Lord, saying, ‘I will entice him.’ And the Lord said to him, ‘By what means?’ 21 And he said, ‘I will go out, and will be (A)a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ And he said, ‘You are to entice him, and you shall succeed; go out and do so.’ 22 Now therefore behold, the Lord has put a lying spirit in the mouth of these your prophets. The Lord has declared disaster concerning you.”
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Genesis 3:3-7
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3 but God said, (A)‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” 4 (B)But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. 5 For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” 6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise,[a] she took of its fruit (C)and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, (D)and he ate. 7 (E)Then the eyes of both were opened, (F)and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.
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- Genesis 3:6 Or to give insight
Revelation 20:2-3
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2 And he seized (A)the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and (B)bound him for a thousand years, 3 and threw him into (C)the pit, and shut it and (D)sealed it over him, so that (E)he might not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be released for a little while.
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Revelation 13:6-8
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6 It opened its mouth to utter blasphemies against God, blaspheming his name and his dwelling,[a] that is, those who dwell in heaven. 7 Also it was allowed (A)to make war on the saints and to conquer them.[b] And authority was given it over every tribe and people and language and nation, 8 and all (B)who dwell on earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in (C)the book of life of (D)the Lamb (E)who was slain.
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- Revelation 13:6 Or tabernacle
- Revelation 13:7 Some manuscripts omit this sentence
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