Demons

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

For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;

But the unclean spirit, when he is gone out of the man, passes through waterless places, seeking rest, and doesn’t find it. — read the full passage →

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,

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?”

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

and certain women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary who was called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out;

He said to them, “This kind can come out by nothing, except by prayer and fasting.”

Then one possessed by a demon, blind and mute, was brought to him and he healed him, so that the blind and mute man both spoke and saw.

He called to himself his twelve disciples, and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every sickness.

But some of the itinerant Jews, exorcists, took on themselves to invoke over those who had the evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, “We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches.” — read the full passage →

The demons begged him, saying, “If you cast us out, permit us to go away into the herd of pigs.”

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. — read the full passage →

The seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!”

The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

There was war in the sky. Michael and his angels made war on the dragon. The dragon and his angels made war. — read the full passage →

The unclean spirits, whenever they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, “You are the Son of God!”

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.

Then he goes, and takes with himself seven other spirits more evil than he is, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first. Even so will it be also to this evil generation.”

He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God, and I don’t desire that you would have fellowship with demons.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might. — read the full passage →

Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” He said, “Legion,” for many demons had entered into him.

They came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes. — read the full passage →

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light. — read the full passage →

Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;

But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, “This man does not cast out demons, except by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.”

Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.

When he came to the other side, into the country of the Gergesenes, two people possessed by demons met him there, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, so that nobody could pass that way.

“‘Don’t turn to those who are mediums, nor to the wizards. Don’t seek them out, to be defiled by them. I am Yahweh your God.

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

They sacrificed to demons, not God, to gods that they didn’t know, to new gods that came up recently, which your fathers didn’t dread.

How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low! — read the full passage →

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might. — read the full passage →

When he came to the other side, into the country of the Gergesenes, two people possessed by demons met him there, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, so that nobody could pass that way. — read the full passage →

He healed many who were sick with various diseases, and cast out many demons. He didn’t allow the demons to speak, because they knew him.

for they are spirits of demons, performing signs; which go out to the kings of the whole inhabited earth, to gather them together for the war of that great day of God, the Almighty.

The report about him went out into all Syria. They brought to him all who were sick, afflicted with various diseases and torments, possessed with demons, epileptics, and paralytics; and he healed them.

They shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to the goat idols, after which they play the prostitute. This shall be a statute forever to them throughout their generations.’

All the demons begged him, saying, “Send us into the pigs, that we may enter into them.”

Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons. — read the full passage →

But some of the itinerant Jews, exorcists, took on themselves to invoke over those who had the evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, “We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches.”

You can’t both drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You can’t both partake of the table of the Lord, and of the table of demons.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God, and I don’t desire that you would have fellowship with demons. — read the full passage →

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles. — read the full passage →

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,

When evening came, they brought to him many possessed with demons. He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick;

Now when he had risen early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons.

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.

and crying out with a loud voice, he said, “What have I to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, don’t torment me.”

These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new languages;

The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God’s sons came in to men’s daughters and had children with them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

When they came to the multitude, a man came to him, kneeling down to him, saying, — read the full passage →

They were all amazed, so that they questioned among themselves, saying, “What is this? A new teaching? For with authority he commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him!”

The scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, “He has Beelzebul,” and, “By the prince of the demons he casts out the demons.”

He called the twelve together, and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases.

As they went out, behold, a mute man who was demon possessed was brought to him. — read the full passage →

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

Demons also came out of many, crying out, and saying, “You are the Christ, the Son of God!” Rebuking them, he didn’t allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.

As we were going to prayer, a certain girl having a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much gain by fortune telling. — read the full passage →

How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

But some of them said, “He casts out demons by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.”

A spirit came out and stood before Yahweh, and said, ‘I will entice him.’ — read the full passage →

The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from the sky which had fallen to the earth. The key to the pit of the abyss was given to him. — read the full passage →

The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from the sky which had fallen to the earth. The key to the pit of the abyss was given to him.

For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; — read the full passage →

By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively.

Then a spirit passed before my face. The hair of my flesh stood up.

Now the Spirit of Yahweh departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from Yahweh troubled him.

He called to himself the twelve, and began to send them out two by two; and he gave them authority over the unclean spirits.

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!”

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

But the unclean spirit, when he is gone out of the man, passes through waterless places, seeking rest, and doesn’t find it.

As they went out, behold, a mute man who was demon possessed was brought to him.

He cried with a mighty voice, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, and she has become a habitation of demons, a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird!

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

They came to Jesus, and saw him who had been possessed by demons sitting, clothed, and in his right mind, even him who had the legion; and they were afraid.

having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

She was doing this for many days. But Paul, becoming greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!” It came out that very hour.

They arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, which is opposite Galilee. — read the full passage →

He asked him, “What is your name?” He said to him, “My name is Legion, for we are many.”

and he appointed him priests for the high places, and for the male goats, and for the calves which he had made.

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

“‘A man or a woman that is a medium, or is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones. Their blood shall be upon them.’”

that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his schemes.

saying, “Ha! What do we have to do with you, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know you who you are: the Holy One of God!”

The rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, didn’t repent of the works of their hands, that they wouldn’t worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood; which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk.

When Jesus saw that a multitude came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to him, “You mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him, and never enter him again!”

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!”

He was casting out a demon, and it was mute. When the demon had gone out, the mute man spoke; and the multitudes marveled.

John said to him, “Teacher, we saw someone who doesn’t follow us casting out demons in your name; and we forbade him, because he doesn’t follow us.”

Multitudes also came together from the cities around Jerusalem, bringing sick people, and those who were tormented by unclean spirits: and they were all healed.

“that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth.”