Sin Is Man’s Great Enemy, Which Entered In Eden, Styled The Devil Or Satan, Against Which Christians Have A Life-Long Struggle.
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•“And I will put enmity between you (serpent) and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel” (Genesis 3:15).
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•“But those which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. These are the things which defile a man…” (Matthew 15:18-20).
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•“But he (Jesus) turned and said to Peter: Get behind me, Satan. You are an offence to me, for you are not mindful of the things of God, but the things of men” (Matthew 16:23).
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•“God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him” (Acts 10:38).
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•“They have all gone out of the way; they have together become unprofitable; there is no one who does good, no, not one” (Romans 3:12).
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•“Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned” (Romans 5:12).
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•“But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members” (Romans 7:23).
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•“Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, he himself likewise shared in the same, that through death he might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil” (Hebrews 2:14).
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•“Let no one say when he is tempted: I am tempted by God; for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he himself tempt anyone. But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed” (James 1:13-14).