"All right," the LORD said to Satan, "everything he has is in your power, but you must not hurt Job himself." So Satan left.

I marked a boundary for the sea and kept it behind bolted gates.

I told it, "So far and no farther! Here your powerful waves must stop."

You calm the roar of the seas and the noise of the waves; you calm the uproar of the peoples.

He said this because Jesus had ordered the evil spirit to go out of him. Many times it had seized him, and even though he was kept a prisoner, his hands and feet tied with chains, he would break the chains and be driven by the demon out into the desert.

The demons begged Jesus not to send them into the abyss.

They went out of the man and into the pigs. The whole herd rushed down the side of the cliff into the lake and was drowned.

"Simon, Simon! Listen! Satan has received permission to test all of you, to separate the good from the bad, as a farmer separates the wheat from the chaff.

But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith will not fail. And when you turn back to me, you must strengthen your brothers."

Every test that you have experienced is the kind that normally comes to people. But God keeps his promise, and he will not allow you to be tested beyond your power to remain firm; at the time you are put to the test, he will give you the strength to endure it, and so provide you with a way out.

Don't be afraid of anything you are about to suffer. Listen! The Devil will put you to the test by having some of you thrown into prison, and your troubles will last ten days. Be faithful to me, even if it means death, and I will give you life as your prize of victory.

Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key of the abyss and a heavy chain.

He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent---that is, the Devil, or Satan---and chained him up for a thousand years.

After the thousand years are over, Satan will be set loose from his prison,