Saturday, February 4, 2012

Genesis 3:14-24 and Matthew 4:12-17 (NIV)

Genesis 3:14-24

14   So the LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, “Cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life.
15   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.”
16   To the woman he said, “I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children.  Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
17   To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life.
18   It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.
19   By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”
20   Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living.
21   The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.
22   And the LORD God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”
23   So the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.
24   After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.

Matthew 4:12-17

12   When Jesus heard that John had been put in prison, he withdrew to Galilee. 
13   Leaving Nazareth, he went and lived in Capernaum, which was by the lake in the area of Zebulun and Naphtali— 
14   to fulfill what was said through the prophet Isaiah: 15   “Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles—
16   the people living in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death
   a light has dawned.”
17  From that time on Jesus began to preach, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.”

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