David Counts the Fighting Men^(A)

21 Satan^(B) rose up against Israel and incited David to take a census^(C) of Israel.

⁶ One day the angels^[a](A) came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan^[b](B) also came with them.^{(C) 7} The Lord said to Satan, “Where have you come from?”

Satan answered the Lord, “From roaming throughout the earth, going back and forth on it.”^(D)

⁸ Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job?^(E) There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God^(F) and shuns evil.”^(G)

⁹ “Does Job fear God for nothing?”^(H) Satan replied.

²³ Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan!^(A) You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.”

¹⁵ Some people are like seed along the path, where the word is sown. As soon as they hear it, Satan^(A) comes and takes away the word that was sown in them.

¹⁸ He replied, “I saw Satan^(A) fall like lightning from heaven.^(B)

¹⁶ Then should not this woman, a daughter of Abraham,^(A) whom Satan^(B) has kept bound for eighteen long years, be set free on the Sabbath day from what bound her?”

³ Then Satan^(A) entered Judas, called Iscariot,^(B) one of the Twelve.

³¹ “Simon, Simon, Satan has asked^(A) to sift all of you as wheat.^(B)

²⁰ The God of peace^(A) will soon crush^(B) Satan^(C) under your feet.

The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.^(D)