For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.

Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might stretch out his hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”—

“The fear of the Lord is to hate evil;
Pride and arrogance and the evil way
And the perverted mouth, I hate.

“For rebellion is as the sin of divination,
And insubordination is as iniquity and idolatry.
Because you have rejected the word of the Lord,
He has also rejected you from being king.”

‘I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;
I will make myself like the Most High.’

“Can you, with Him, spread out the skies,
Strong as a molten mirror?

Therefore thus says the Lord God,
‘Because you have made your heart
Like the heart of God,

“Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre, ‘Thus says the Lord God,
“Because your heart is lifted up
And you have said, ‘I am a god,
I sit in the seat of gods
In the heart of the seas’;
Yet you are a man and not God,
Although you make your heart like the heart of God—

and they all, from smallest to greatest, were giving attention to him, saying, “This man is what is called the Great Power of God.”