Satan

Satan is named in both the Old and New Testaments and is also called the devil. This page lists verses on Satan's names and works, Satan in the Old Testament, the temptation of Jesus, resisting the devil, and Satan's defeat.

Names and descriptions

• Revelation 12:9
  And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
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• John 8:44
  Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
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• 2 Corinthians 11:14
  And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
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• Ephesians 2:2
  Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
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In the Old Testament

• Genesis 3:1
  Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
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• Job 1:6-7
  ⁶Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them. ⁷And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
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• Zechariah 3:1
  And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.
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Tempting Jesus

• Matthew 4:1
  Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
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• Matthew 4:8-10
  ⁸Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; ⁹And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. ¹⁰Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
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Resisting the devil

• 1 Peter 5:8-9
  ⁸Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: ⁹Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
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• James 4:7
  Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
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• Ephesians 6:11
  Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
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Defeated

• Genesis 3:15
  And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
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• 1 John 3:8
  He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
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• Hebrews 2:14
  Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
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• Revelation 20:10
  And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
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See also

• Demons
• Spiritual warfare
• Temptation
• Angels

Notes

1. Verses are quoted in the translation chosen in the Translation menu at the top of the page. See Translations for sources and copyright notices.
2. Each reference links to the full chapter so the verse can be read in context.