Be self controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.

No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.

“You will not surely die,” the serpent said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.

Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned.

Remember that at that time you were separated from Christ excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise without hope and without God in the world.

In fact, the law requires nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.