¹⁵ And these are the ones by the wayside where the word is sown. When they hear, Satan comes immediately and takes away the word that was sown in their hearts.

¹⁶ So ought not this woman, ^(A)being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound—think of it—for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath?”

³⁶ The word which God sent to the ^[a]children of Israel, ^(A)preaching peace through Jesus Christ—^(B)He is Lord of all— ³⁷ that word you know, which was proclaimed throughout all Judea, and ^(C)began from Galilee after the baptism which John preached: ³⁸ how ^(D)God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who ^(E)went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, ^(F)for God was with Him.

³ But even if our gospel is veiled, ^(A)it is veiled to those who are perishing, ⁴ whose minds ^(B)the god of this age ^(C)has blinded, who do not believe, lest ^(D)the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, ^(E)who is the image of God, should shine on them.

³ But I fear, lest somehow, as ^(A)the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds ^(B)may be corrupted from the ^[a]simplicity that is in Christ.

¹⁰ Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, ^(A)“Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, ^(B)who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down.