Or how is one able to enter a strong [man's] house to plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong [man]? And then he will plunder his household.

When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own palace, his possessions are in peace.

But when a stronger [than] he comes upon [him], he overcomes him, he takes away his full armor in which he had trusted, and distributes his spoils.

And after the piece of bread, then Satan entered him. Therefore Jesus said to him, "What you do, do quickly."

in which you once walked according to the age of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit which is now working in the sons of disobedience,

You are of God, little children, and you have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

But the [seed] sown on stony ground, is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy;

But the [seed] sown in the thorns is he who hears the word, and the anxiety of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches chokes out the word, and it becomes fruitless.

But My people hearkened not to My voice; and Israel gave no heed to Me.

So I let them go after the ways of their own hearts; they will go on in their own ways.

Wherefore their hearts are inflamed as an oven, while they rage all the night. Ephraim is satisfied with sleep; the morning has come; he is burnt up as a flame of fire.

This he said, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the money box; and he used to pilfer the things which were placed in it.

And after supper, the devil having already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray Him,

But a certain man named Ananias, together with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession.

But Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart [for] you to lie to the Holy Spirit, and [for] you to keep back for yourself from the price of the land?

Now when Simon observed that by the laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy Spirit was given, he offered them money,

But Peter said to him, "Your money perish with you, because you thought to acquire the gift of God through money!

Repent therefore from this your wickedness, and make petition to God, if perhaps the intent of your heart will be forgiven you.

For there must also be sects among you, in order that those who are approved may become recognized among you.

whose coming is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders,

And because of this, God will send them strong delusion, in order for them to believe the lie,

he is puffed up, understanding nothing, but [is] morbidly concerned with disputes and word battles, from which come envy, strife, slanders, evil suspicions,

constant wranglings of men of corrupt minds and having been deprived of the truth, supposing that godliness is a means of profit. Withdraw from such [people].

But those desiring to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and many senseless and harmful lusts which sink men in destruction and perdition.

For the love of money is a root of all evils, of which some [by] aspiring have strayed away from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but [they went out] in order that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.

For certain men have crept in unawares, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, changing the grace of our God into licentiousness and denying the only Master God and our Lord Jesus Christ.

But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.

And one of his heads [was] as if it had been slain to death, and his wound of death was healed. And the whole world marveled after the Beast.

And they worshipped the dragon who gave authority to the Beast; and they worshipped the Beast, saying, "Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?"

And all those who dwell on the earth shall worship him, whose name is not written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

If anyone has an ear, let him hear.