Therefore the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken and the LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and He clothed them. Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil. And now, lest he reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever and to Adam He said: “We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name,” Then Jesus told this parable: “A man had a fig tree that was planted in his vineyard. He went to look for fruit on it, but did not find any. So he said to the keeper of the vineyard, ‘Look, for the past three years I have come to search for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Therefore cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?’ ‘Sir,’ the man replied, ‘leave it alone again this year, until I dig around it and fertilize it. “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field and he said. “Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us responsible for this man’s blood.” But Peter and the other apostles replied, “We must obey God rather than men. The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you had killed by hanging Him on a tree. To the woman He said: In what way were you inferior to the other churches, except that I was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong! No, See, I am ready to come to you a third time, and I will not be a burden, because I am not seeking your possessions, but you. this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel: ‘ In the last days, God says, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. Even on My menservants and maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy for children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children and for the sake of your souls, I will most gladly spend my money and myself. If I love you more, will you love me less? Woe to you, O destroyer never destroyed, O traitor never betrayed! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed. When you have finished betraying, you will be betrayed. “I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.” Pharaoh then summoned wise men and sorcerers, and the Egyptian magicians also did the same things by their secret arts: You must not allow a sorceress to live do not seek them out, They sacrificed their sons and daughters in the fire. You must not turn to mediums or spiritists; or you will be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God. They practiced divination and sought omens and sold themselves to do evil in the eyes of the LORD, arousing his anger. Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you and if anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple. If it is burned up, he will suffer loss. He himself will be saved, but only as if through the flames. O LORD, be gracious to us! We wait for You. Be our strength every morning and our salvation in time of trouble for wisdom, like money, is a shelter, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of its owner. Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent? In the day of prosperity, be joyful, but in the day of adversity, consider this: God has made one of these along with the other, so that a man cannot discover anything that will come after him. Enoch, the seventh from Adam, also prophesied about them: “Behold, the Lord is coming with myriads of His holy ones the LORD helps and delivers them; Yet to which of the angels did God ever say: “Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet”? These men are hidden reefs in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by the wind; fruitless trees in autumn, twice dead after being uprooted. They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever. He rescues and saves them from the wicked, the angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear Him, He is their stronghold in time of trouble the salvation of the righteous is from the LORD; because they take refuge in Him and he delivers them who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age for I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future are not the angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?
Leviticus 19:31
Exodus 22:18
2 Kings 17:17
Exodus 7:11
Acts 2:16-18
2 Corinthians 12:13-15
1 Corinthians 3:15-17
Genesis 3:21-23
Luke 13:6-8
Genesis 3:16-18
Acts 5:28-30
Ecclesiastes 7:12-14
Isaiah 33:1,2
Jude 1:12-14
Hebrews 1:13,14
Jeremiah 29:11
Psalm 37:39,40
Hebrews 6:5
Psalm 34:7
