For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
Psalm 12:4 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) those who say, “With our tongue we will prevail, our lips are with us; who is our master?” More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; Our lips are our own: who is lord over us? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Those who say, With our tongues we prevail; our lips are our own [to command at our will]–who is lord and master over us? American Standard Version (1901) Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; Our lips are our own: who is lord over us? Common English Bible that says, “We’re unbeatable with our tongues! Who could get the best of us with lips like ours?” Catholic Public Domain Version Look upon me and listen to me, O Lord my God. Enlighten my eyes, lest I fall asleep forever in death, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Consider, and hear me, O Lord my God. Enlighten my eyes that I never sleep in death: |
For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
I know that the Lord maintains the cause of the afflicted, and executes justice for the needy.
But Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord, that I should heed his voice and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, and moreover I will not let Israel go.”
The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.
Then they said, “Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not heed any of his words.”
And you, O generation, heed the word of the Lord. Have I been a wilderness to Israel, or a land of thick darkness? Why then do my people say, ‘We are free, we will come no more to thee’?
Now if you are ready when you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, to fall down and worship the image which I have made, well and good; but if you do not worship, you shall immediately be cast into a burning fiery furnace; and who is the god that will deliver you out of my hands?”
who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.