the tempter: Job 1:9-12, Job 2:4-7; Luke 22:31-32; 1 Thessalonians 3:5; Revelation 2:10, Revelation 12:9-11
if: Matthew 3:17; Luke 4:3, Luke 4:9
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Matthew 4:3
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