Entrapment

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

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

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.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. — read the full passage →

Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness — read the full passage →

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

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

While he was still coming, the demon threw him down and convulsed him violently. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the boy, and gave him back to his father.

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.

In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.

Behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and she was bent over, and could in no way straighten herself up.

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;

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — 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.” — read the full passage →

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 →

Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.

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.

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

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

Now after these things, the Lord also appointed seventy others, and sent them two by two ahead of him into every city and place, where he was about to come. — 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 →

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

Now if Christ is preached, that he has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? — read the full passage →

Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John — read the full passage →

but he who didn’t know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.

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.

One of the multitude answered, “Teacher, I brought to you my son, who has a mute spirit; — read the full passage →

They saw them going, and many recognized him and ran there on foot from all the cities. They arrived before them and came together to him.

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

The robbers also who were crucified with him cast on him the same reproach.

Then Peter came and said to him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?”

In that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who then is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?” — read the full passage →

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.

Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, and cast out demons. Freely you received, so freely give.

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;

Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen. ’

But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes’ and your ‘No’ be ‘No.’ Whatever is more than these is of the evil one.

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. — read the full passage →