[ 3:6] For God knew that in whatever day you should eat of it, your eyes would be opened, and you would be as gods, knowing good and evil.

[ 3:7] And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes to look upon and beautiful to contemplate, and having taken of its fruit she ate, and she gave to her husband also with her, and they ate.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men's bones and of all uncleanness.

Thus also you outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ.

Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.

forbidding to marry, [commanding] to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who are believers and have come to know the truth.

For bodily exercise is profitable a little, but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the present life and of the coming life.

Beware lest anyone captures you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ.

Let no one rule against you, desiring [to do so] in [false] humility and in worship of the angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, in vain being puffed up by his carnal mind,

which things are all for corruption with the using, according to the commands and teaching of men?

For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as also the Lord does the church.