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13 “If a prophet or (A)a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder, and (B)the sign or wonder that he tells you comes to pass, and if he says, ‘Let us go after other gods’, which you have not known, ‘and let us serve them’, you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For the Lord your God (C)is testing you, to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

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The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan (A)with all power and false signs and wonders, 10 and with all wicked deception for (B)those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11 Therefore (C)God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe (D)what is false,

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13 (A)It performs great signs, even (B)making fire come down from heaven to earth in front of people, 14 and by the signs that it is allowed to work in the presence of[a] the beast (C)it deceives those who dwell on earth, telling them to make an image for the beast (D)that was wounded by the sword and yet lived.

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  1. Revelation 13:14 Or on behalf of

14 For they are (A)demonic spirits, (B)performing signs, who go abroad to the kings of the whole world, (C)to assemble them for battle on (D)the great day of God the Almighty.

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20 And the beast was captured, and with it (A)the false prophet (B)who in its presence[a] had done the signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who (C)worshipped its image. These two were (D)thrown alive into the lake of (E)fire that burns with sulphur.

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  1. Revelation 19:20 Or on its behalf

Simon the Magician Believes

But there was a man named Simon, (A)who had previously practised magic in the city and amazed the people of Samaria, (B)saying that he himself was somebody great.

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