¹³ So the Lord God asked the woman, “What have you done?”

And the woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”^(A)

³ But I fear that, as the serpent^(A) deceived^(B) Eve^(C) by his cunning, your minds may be seduced from a sincere and pure^[a] devotion to Christ.^(D)

¹⁴ And Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and transgressed.^(A)

⁷ Many deceivers have gone out into the world; they do not confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh.^(A) This is the deceiver and the antichrist.^(B)

⁹ So the great dragon was thrown out—the ancient serpent,^(A) who is called the devil and Satan,^(B) the one who deceives the whole world.^(C) He was thrown to earth, and his angels with him.^(D)

²⁰ But the beast was taken prisoner, and along with it the false prophet, who had performed the signs in its presence. He deceived those who accepted the mark of the beast and those who worshiped its image with these signs.^(A) Both of them were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.^(B)