“Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat,
Does one crush bread grain? No, he does not thresh it for ever; when he drives his cart wheel over it with his horses, he does not crush it.
“For lo, I will command, and shake the house of Israel among all the nations as one shakes with a sieve, but no pebble shall fall upon the earth.
Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him.
And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
Then Jesus said to him, “Begone, Satan! for it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve.’ ”
But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things;
And he fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”
you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
to keep Satan from gaining the advantage over us; for we are not ignorant of his designs.
Be sober, be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking some one to devour.
And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God.