Bible: John 1:12; 3:16, 18, 36; 5:24; 6:47; 11:25, 26; 20:31; 17:3

1:12 But to all who have received him – those who believe in his name 1 he has given the right to become God’s children

3:16 To the woman he said,

I will greatly increase 1  your labor pains; 2 

with pain you will give birth to children.

You will want to control your husband, 3 

but he will dominate 4  you.”

3:18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you,

but you will eat the grain 5  of the field.

The Temptation and the Fall

3:1 Now 6  the serpent 7  was more shrewd 8 

than any of the wild animals 9  that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Is it really true that 10  God 11  said, ‘You must not eat from any tree of the orchard? 12 

5:24 Enoch walked with God, and then he disappeared 1  because God took 2  him away.

God’s Grief over Humankind’s Wickedness

6:1 When humankind 1  began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born 2  to them, 3 

11:25 And after he became the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.

11:26 When Terah had lived 70 years, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Abraham and Abimelech

20:1 Abraham journeyed from there to the Negev 1  region and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he lived as a temporary resident 2  in Gerar,

17:3 Abram bowed down with his face to the ground, 1  and God said to him, 2 

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