Verse 31

Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has demanded to sift you all like wheat.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Pet 5:8 : 8 Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
  • Job 1:6-9 : 6 One day, the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them. 7 The LORD said to Satan, 'Where have you come from?' Satan answered the LORD, 'From roaming the earth and walking back and forth on it.' 8 The LORD said to Satan, 'Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one like him on earth—a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and turns away from evil.' 9 Satan replied to the LORD, 'Does Job fear God for nothing?' 10 'Haven't you placed a hedge around him and his household and everything he owns? You have blessed the work of his hands so that his possessions have increased in the land.' 11 'But stretch out your hand and strike all that he has, and he will surely curse you to your face.' 12 The LORD said to Satan, 'Very well, everything he has is in your power, but do not lay a hand on the man himself.' Then Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.
  • Amos 9:9 : 9 For behold, I am giving the command, and I will shake the house of Israel among all the nations as one shakes a sieve, but not a single pebble shall fall to the ground.
  • Zech 3:1 : 1 Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right side to accuse him.
  • Job 2:1-6 : 1 One day, the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them to present himself before the LORD. 2 The LORD said to Satan, 'Where have you come from?' Satan answered the LORD, 'From roaming through the earth and walking back and forth on it.' 3 Then the LORD said to Satan, 'Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one like him on earth—blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil. And he still holds fast to his integrity, even though you incited me against him to destroy him without cause.' 4 Satan answered the LORD, 'Skin for skin! A man will give everything he has for his own life.' 5 But stretch out your hand and strike his bone and flesh, and he will surely curse you to your face! 6 The LORD said to Satan, 'Very well, he is in your hands; only spare his life.'
  • Rev 12:10 : 10 Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: 'Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Messiah. For the accuser of our siblings, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down.'
  • Luke 10:41 : 41 The Lord answered her, 'Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things.'
  • Acts 9:4 : 4 He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?"