2:11 Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and exiles to keep away from fleshly desires that do battle against the soul, 2:12 and maintain good conduct ¹  among the non-Christians, ²  so that though ³  they now malign you as wrongdoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God when he appears. ⁴ 

2:13 Be subject to every human institution ⁵  for the Lord’s sake, whether to a king as supreme 2:14 or to governors as those he commissions ⁶  to punish wrongdoers and praise ⁷  those who do good. 2:15 For God wants you ⁸  to silence the ignorance of foolish people by doing good. 2:16 Live ⁹  as free people, not using your freedom as a pretext for evil, but as God’s slaves. ¹⁰  2:17 Honor all people, love the family of believers, ¹¹  fear God, honor the king.

2:18 Slaves, ¹²  be subject ¹³  to your masters with all reverence, not only to those who are good and gentle, but also to those who are perverse.

3:8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God moving about ¹  in the orchard at the breezy time ²  of the day, and they hid ³  from the Lord God among the trees of the orchard. 3:9 But the Lord God called to ⁴  the man and said to him, “Where are you?” ⁵  3:10 The man replied, ⁶  “I heard you moving about ⁷  in the orchard, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.” 3:11 And the Lord God ⁸  said, “Who told you that you were naked? ⁹  Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?” ¹⁰  3:12 The man said, “The woman whom you gave me, she gave ¹¹  me some fruit ¹²  from the tree and I ate it.” 3:13 So the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this ¹³  you have done?” And the woman replied, “The serpent ¹⁴  tricked ¹⁵  me, and I ate.”

3:14 The Lord God said to the serpent, ¹⁶ 

“Because you have done this,

cursed ¹⁷  are you above all the wild beasts

and all the living creatures of the field!

On your belly you will crawl ¹⁸ 

and dust you will eat ¹⁹  all the days of your life.

3:15 And I will put hostility ²⁰  between you and the woman

and between your offspring and her offspring; ²¹ 

her offspring will attack ²²  your head,

and ²³  you ²⁴  will attack her offspring’s heel.” ²⁵ 

3:16 To the woman he said,

“I will greatly increase ²⁶  your labor pains; ²⁷ 

with pain you will give birth to children.

You will want to control your husband, ²⁸ 

but he will dominate ²⁹  you.”

4:1 Now ¹  the man had marital relations with ²  his wife Eve, and she became pregnant ³  and gave birth to Cain. Then she said, “I have created ⁴  a man just as the Lord did!” ⁵  4:2 Then she gave birth ⁶  to his brother Abel. ⁷  Abel took care of the flocks, while Cain cultivated the ground. ⁸ 

4:3 At the designated time ⁹  Cain brought some of the fruit of the ground for an offering ¹⁰  to the Lord. 4:4 But Abel brought ¹¹  some of the firstborn of his flock – even the fattest ¹²  of them. And the Lord was pleased with ¹³  Abel and his offering,