And the Lord God… Clothed Them

Gen 2:8-9 NLT  Then the LORD God planted a garden in Eden in the east, and there he placed the man he had made.  (9)  The LORD God made all sorts of trees grow up from the ground—trees that were beautiful and that produced delicious fruit. In the middle of the garden he placed the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Gen 2:15-17 NLT  The LORD God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to tend and watch over it.  (16)  But the LORD God warned him, “You may freely eat the fruit of every tree in the garden—  (17)  except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If you eat its fruit, you are sure to die.”

Gen 2:25 NLT  Now the man and his wife were both naked, but they felt no shame.

Gen 3:1-3 NLT  The serpent was the shrewdest of all the wild animals the LORD God had made. One day he asked the woman, “Did God really say you must not eat the fruit from any of the trees in the garden?”  (2)  “Of course we may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,” the woman replied.  (3)  “It’s only the fruit from the tree in the middle of the garden that we are not allowed to eat. God said, ‘You must not eat it or even touch it; if you do, you will die.’”

Gen 3:4-5 NIV  “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman.  (5)  “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

Gen 3:6 NIV  When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.

1Co 15:45 NLT  The Scriptures tell us, “The first man, Adam, became a living person.” But the last Adam—that is, Christ—is a life-giving Spirit.

Luk 4:3 NLT  Then the devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become a loaf of bread.”

Luk 4:5-7 NIV  The devil led him up to a high place and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world.  (6)  And he said to him, “I will give you all their authority and splendor; it has been given to me, and I can give it to anyone I want to.  (7)  If you worship me, it will all be yours.”

Luk 4:9-11 NIV  The devil led him to Jerusalem and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. “If you are the Son of God,” he said, “throw yourself down from here.  (10)  For it is written: “‘He will command his angels concerning you to guard you carefully;  (11)  they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.'”

1Jn 2:15-16 NLT  Do not love this world nor the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you.  (16)  For the world offers only a craving for physical pleasure, a craving for everything we see, and pride in our achievements and possessions. These are not from the Father, but are from this world.

Gen 3:7 NLT  At that moment their eyes were opened, and they suddenly felt shame at their nakedness. So they sewed fig leaves together to cover themselves.

Gen 3:8-10 NLT  When the cool evening breezes were blowing, the man and his wife heard the LORD God walking about in the garden. So they hid from the LORD God among the trees.  (9)  Then the LORD God called to the man, “Where are you?”  (10)  He replied, “I heard you walking in the garden, so I hid. I was afraid because I was naked.”

John 3:19-20 NLT  And the judgment is based on this fact: God’s light came into the world, but people loved the darkness more than the light, for their actions were evil.  (20)  All who do evil hate the light and refuse to go near it for fear their sins will be exposed.

Gen 3:9-12 NLT  Then the LORD God called to the man, “Where are you?”  (10)  He replied, “I heard you walking in the garden, so I hid. I was afraid because I was naked.”  (11)  “Who told you that you were naked?” the LORD God asked. “Have you eaten from the tree whose fruit I commanded you not to eat?”  (12)  The man replied, “It was the woman you gave me who gave me the fruit, and I ate it.”

Gen 3:13 NLT  Then the LORD God asked the woman, “What have you done?” “The serpent deceived me,” she replied. “That’s why I ate it.”

Gen 3:17-19 NLT  And to the man he said, “Since you listened to your wife and ate from the tree whose fruit I commanded you not to eat, the ground is cursed because of you. All your life you will struggle to scratch a living from it.  (18)  It will grow thorns and thistles for you, though you will eat of its grains.  (19)  By the sweat of your brow will you have food to eat until you return to the ground from which you were made. For you were made from dust, and to dust you will return.”

Gen 3:16 NLT  Then he said to the woman, “I will sharpen the pain of your pregnancy, and in pain you will give birth. And you will desire to control your husband, but he will rule over you.”

Gen 3:14 NLT  Then the LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, you are cursed more than all animals, domestic and wild. You will crawl on your belly, groveling in the dust as long as you live.

Gen 3:15 NIV84  And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”

Rom 16:20b NIV  The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet.

Gen 3:21  And the LORD God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them.

Gen 3:22-24 NLT  Then the LORD God said, “Look, the human beings have become like us, knowing both good and evil. What if they reach out, take fruit from the tree of life, and eat it? Then they will live forever!”  (23)  So the LORD God banished them from the Garden of Eden, and he sent Adam out to cultivate the ground from which he had been made.  (24)  After sending them out, the LORD God stationed mighty cherubim to the east of the Garden of Eden. And he placed a flaming sword that flashed back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.

Rev 22:14 NLT  Blessed are those who wash their robes. They will be permitted to enter through the gates of the city and eat the fruit from the tree of life.