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The Lord said to the accuser,[a] “Very well, he is in your power; only spare his life.”(A)

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  1. 2.6 Heb the satan

13 No testing has overtaken you that is not common to everyone. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tested beyond your strength, but with the testing he will also provide the way out so that you may be able to endure it.(A)

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Jesus Predicts Peter’s Denial

31 “Simon, Simon, listen! Satan has demanded[a] to sift all of you like wheat,(A) 32 but I have prayed for you that your own faith may not fail, and you, when once you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.”(B)

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  1. 22.31 Or has obtained permission

10 Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Beware, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison so that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have affliction. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.(A)

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12 The Lord said to the accuser,[a] “Very well, all that he has is in your power; only do not stretch out your hand against him!” So the accuser[b] went out from the presence of the Lord.

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  1. 1.12 Heb the satan
  2. 1.12 Heb the satan

29 for Jesus[a] had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. (For many times it had seized him; he was kept under guard and bound with chains and shackles, but he would break the bonds and be driven by the demon into the wilds.) 30 Jesus then asked him, “What is your name?” He said, “Legion,” for many demons had entered him. 31 They begged him not to order them to go back into the abyss.(A)

32 Now there on the hillside a large herd of swine was feeding, and the demons[b] begged Jesus[c] to let them enter these. So he gave them permission. 33 Then the demons came out of the man and entered the swine, and the herd stampeded down the steep bank into the lake and was drowned.(B)

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  1. 8.29 Gk he
  2. 8.32 Gk they
  3. 8.32 Gk him

Satan’s Doom

When the thousand years are ended, Satan will be released from his prison

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The Thousand Years

20 Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain. He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years(A)

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You silence the roaring of the seas,
    the roaring of their waves,
    the tumult of the peoples.(A)

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10 and prescribed bounds for it,
    and set bars and doors,(A)
11 and said, ‘Thus far shall you come and no farther,
    and here shall your proud waves be stopped’?(B)

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