1:12 For our reason for confidence ¹  is this: the testimony of our conscience, that with pure motives ²  and sincerity which are from God ³  – not by human wisdom ⁴  but by the grace of God – we conducted ourselves in the world, and all the more ⁵  toward you.

3:17 But to Adam ²  he said,

“Because you obeyed ³  your wife

and ate from the tree about which I commanded you,

‘You must not eat from it,’

cursed is the ground ⁴  thanks to you; ⁵ 

in painful toil you will eat ⁶  of it all the days of your life.