¹⁸ He said to them, “I watched Satan fall from heaven like a flash of lightning.^(A)

Michael Defeats the Dragon

⁷ And war broke out in heaven; Michael and his angels fought against the dragon. The dragon and his angels fought back,^{(A) 8} but they were defeated, and there was no longer any place for them in heaven. ⁹ The great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.^(B)

9 And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit;^(A)

¹¹ about judgment, because the ruler of this world has been condemned.^(A)

³¹ Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be driven out.^(A)

¹⁰ Then Jesus said to him, “Away with you, Satan! for it is written,

⁸ Everyone who commits sin is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The Son of God was revealed for this purpose: to destroy the works of the devil.^(A)

¹⁴ Since, therefore, the children share flesh and blood, he himself likewise shared the same things, so that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil,^(A)

² He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years^(A)