I will make you and the woman hate each other; her offspring and yours will always be enemies. Her offspring will crush your head, and you will bite her offspring's heel."

On that day the LORD will use his powerful and deadly sword to punish Leviathan, that wriggling, twisting dragon, and to kill the monster that lives in the sea.

Can you take away a soldier's loot? Can you rescue the prisoners of a tyrant?

The LORD replies, "That is just what is going to happen. The soldier's prisoners will be taken away, and the tyrant's loot will be seized. I will fight against whoever fights you, and I will rescue your children.

At once they screamed, "What do you want with us, you Son of God? Have you come to punish us before the right time?"

And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields for my sake, will receive a hundred times more and will be given eternal life.

and screamed in a loud voice, "Jesus, Son of the Most High God! What do you want with me? For God's sake, I beg you, don't punish me!"

No, it is rather by means of God's power that I drive out demons, and this proves that the Kingdom of God has already come to you.

But when a stronger man attacks him and defeats him, he carries away all the weapons the owner was depending on and divides up what he stole.

Now is the time for this world to be judged; now the ruler of this world will be overthrown.

and they are wrong about judgment, because the ruler of this world has already been judged.

And God, our source of peace, will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.

Since the children, as he calls them, are people of flesh and blood, Jesus himself became like them and shared their human nature. He did this so that through his death he might destroy the Devil, who has the power over death,

They have a king ruling over them, who is the angel in charge of the abyss. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon; in Greek the name is Apollyon (meaning "The Destroyer").

The huge dragon was thrown out---that ancient serpent, named the Devil, or Satan, that deceived the whole world. He was thrown down to earth, and all his angels with him.

When the dragon realized that he had been thrown down to the earth, he began to pursue the woman who had given birth to the boy.

And then from his mouth the dragon poured out a flood of water after the woman, so that it would carry her away.

The dragon was furious with the woman and went off to fight against the rest of her descendants, all those who obey God's commandments and are faithful to the truth revealed by Jesus.

The beast looked like a leopard, with feet like a bear's feet and a mouth like a lion's mouth. The dragon gave the beast his own power, his throne, and his vast authority.

Everyone worshiped the dragon because he had given his authority to the beast. They worshiped the beast also, saying, "Who is like the beast? Who can fight against it?"

The LORD asked him, "What have you been doing?" Satan answered, "I have been walking here and there, roaming around the earth."

When the day came for the heavenly beings to appear before the LORD again, Satan was there among them.

The LORD asked him, "Where have you been?" Satan answered, "I have been walking here and there, roaming around the earth."

Be alert, be on watch! Your enemy, the Devil, roams around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.

God did not spare the angels who sinned, but threw them into hell, where they are kept chained in darkness, waiting for the Day of Judgment.

Remember the angels who did not stay within the limits of their proper authority, but abandoned their own dwelling place: they are bound with eternal chains in the darkness below, where God is keeping them for that great Day on which they will be condemned.