Satan

Then Satan rose up against Israel and incited David to take a census of Israel.

⁴ When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus and I am with you in spirit, along with the power of the Lord Jesus,

⁵ hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord.

Do not deprive each other, except by mutual consent and for a time, so you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again, so that Satan will not tempt you through your lack of self-control.

For we wanted to come to you—indeed I, Paul, tried again and again—but Satan obstructed us.

Among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan to be taught not to blaspheme.

For some have already turned aside to follow Satan.

¹⁰ If you forgive anyone, I also forgive him. And if I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven it in the presence of Christ for your sake,

¹¹ in order that Satan should not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes.

And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.

⁶ Even if I wanted to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no one will credit me with more than he sees in me or hears from me,

⁷ or because of these surpassingly great revelations. So to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.

⁹ The coming of the lawless one will be accompanied by the working of Satan, with every kind of power, sign, and false wonder,

¹⁰ and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them.