31 “Simon, Simon, look! Satan has demanded to have all of you to sift you as wheat.+ 32 But I have made supplication for you that your faith may not give out;+ and you, once you have returned, strengthen your brothers.”+

9 So, then, Jehovah* knows how to rescue people of godly devotion out of trial,+ but to reserve unrighteous people to be destroyed* on the day of judgment,+