Avenging Angels

Angels who didn’t keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.

Aren’t they all serving spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?

and they may recover themselves out of the devil’s snare, having been taken captive by him to his will.

You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder.

When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, “What do I have to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I beg you, don’t torment me!” — read the full passage →

But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, — read the full passage →

The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.

Suddenly, there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly army praising God, and saying,

An angel from heaven appeared to him, strengthening him.

The dragon grew angry with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her seed, who keep God’s commandments and hold Jesus’ testimony.

Or do you think that I couldn’t ask my Father, and he would even now send me more than twelve legions of angels?

For by him all things were created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him. — read the full passage →

To them it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to you, they ministered these things, which now have been announced to you through those who preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.

For by him all things were created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him.

See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall give birth to a son. They shall call his name Immanuel”; which is, being interpreted, “God with us.”

But when he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, don’t be afraid to take to yourself Mary, your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.

Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,

The angel answered him, “I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God. I was sent to speak to you, and to bring you this good news.

For when they will rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,

Behold, they cried out, saying, “What do we have to do with you, Jesus, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?”

And behold, an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side, and woke him up, saying, “Stand up quickly!” His chains fell off from his hands.

I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever,— — read the full passage →

For they can’t die any more, for they are like the angels, and are children of God, being children of the resurrection.

When he finished praying in a certain place, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples.”

He said to them, “I saw Satan having fallen like lightning from heaven.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.

and she saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head, and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.

I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.

But Michael, the archangel, when contending with the devil and arguing about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him an abusive condemnation, but said, “May the Lord rebuke you!”

Let no one rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshiping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

Behold, an angel of the Lord stood by them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.

Entering into the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe, and they were amazed.

Then he will send out his angels, and will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of the sky.

For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also will be ashamed of him, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”

Behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from the sky, and came and rolled away the stone from the door, and sat on it.

I saw a mighty angel coming down out of the sky, clothed with a cloud. A rainbow was on his head. His face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire.

and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power;

What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the seed should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.

While they were greatly perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling clothing.

Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”

Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him. — read the full passage →

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like God’s angels in heaven.

After this, I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, so that no wind would blow on the earth, or on the sea, or on any tree.

But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,

There was war in the sky. Michael and his angels made war on the dragon. The dragon and his angels made war.