1 Kings 13:16

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1 Kings 13:14–18 · Berean Standard Bible

14 and went after the man of God. He found him sitting under an oak tree and asked, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?” “I am,” he replied.

15 So the prophet said to the man of God, “Come home with me and eat some bread.”

16 But the man replied, “I cannot return with you or eat bread or drink water with you in this place.

17 For I have been told by the word of the LORD: ‘You must not eat bread or drink water there or return by the way you came.’”

18 Then the prophet replied, “I too am a prophet like you, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, ‘Bring him back with you to your house, so that he may eat bread and drink water.’” The old prophet was lying to him,

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1 Kings 13:8

But the man of God replied, “If you were to give me half your possessions, I still would not go with you, nor would I eat bread or drink water in this place.

1 Kings 13:9

For this is what I was commanded by the word of the LORD: ‘You must not eat bread or drink water or return by the way you came.’”

Genesis 3:1

Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden?’”

Genesis 3:2

The woman answered the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden,

Genesis 3:3

but about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You must not eat of it or touch it, or you will die.’”

Numbers 22:13

So Balaam got up the next morning and said to Balak’s princes, “Go back to your homeland, because the LORD has refused to let me go with you.”

Numbers 22:19

So now, please stay here overnight as the others did, that I may find out what else the LORD has to tell me.”

Matthew 4:10

“Away from Me, Satan!” Jesus declared. “For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.’”

Matthew 16:23

But Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to Me. For you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men.”