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Demons
James 2:19 ESV / 267 helpful votes
You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder!
Matthew 12:43-45 ESV / 192 helpful votes
“When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, but finds none. Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when it comes, it finds the house empty, swept, and put in order. Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and dwell there, and the last state of that person is worse than the first. So also will it be with this evil generation.”
2 Peter 2:4 ESV / 163 helpful votes
For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment;
James 4:7 ESV / 156 helpful votes
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Matthew 10:1 ESV / 137 helpful votes
And he called to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every affliction.
1 Peter 5:8 ESV / 135 helpful votes
Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
Luke 8:2 ESV / 133 helpful votes
And also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out,
Mark 9:29 ESV / 124 helpful votes
And he said to them, “This kind cannot be driven out by anything but prayer.”
Jude 1:6 ESV / 118 helpful votes
And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day—
1 Timothy 4:1 ESV / 116 helpful votes
Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons,
Mark 3:11 ESV / 113 helpful votes
And whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, “You are the Son of God.”
Matthew 12:22 ESV / 112 helpful votes
Then a demon-oppressed man who was blind and mute was brought to him, and he healed him, so that the man spoke and saw.
Ephesians 6:11-12 ESV / 109 helpful votes
Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
Matthew 8:29 ESV / 101 helpful votes
And behold, they cried out, “What have you to do with us, O Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?”
Leviticus 17:7 ESV / 99 helpful votes
So they shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to goat demons, after whom they whore. This shall be a statute forever for them throughout their generations.
1 Corinthians 10:21 ESV / 94 helpful votes
You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons.
1 Corinthians 10:20 ESV / 91 helpful votes
No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons.
Psalm 106:37 ESV / 85 helpful votes
They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons;
Luke 4:41 ESV / 84 helpful votes
And demons also came out of many, crying, “You are the Son of God!” But he rebuked them and would not allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.
Acts 19:13-16 ESV / 83 helpful votes
Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists undertook to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “I adjure you by the Jesus whom Paul proclaims.” Seven sons of a Jewish high priest named Sceva were doing this. But the evil spirit answered them, “Jesus I know, and Paul I recognize, but who are you?” And the man in whom was the evil spirit leaped on them, mastered all of them and overpowered them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.
Luke 10:17 ESV / 74 helpful votes
The seventy-two returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!”
Matthew 25:41 ESV / 73 helpful votes
“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
Revelation 12:9 ESV / 71 helpful votes
And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, 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.
Ephesians 6:12 ESV / 70 helpful votes
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
Revelation 12:7-9 ESV / 68 helpful votes
Now war arose in heaven, Michael and his angels fighting against the dragon. And the dragon and his angels fought back, but he was defeated, and there was no longer any place for them in heaven. And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, 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.
Matthew 8:31 ESV / 67 helpful votes
And the demons begged him, saying, “If you cast us out, send us away into the herd of pigs.”
Acts 16:16-18 ESV / 66 helpful votes
As we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners much gain by fortune-telling. She followed Paul and us, crying out, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to you the way of salvation.” And this she kept doing for many days. Paul, having become greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.” And it came out that very hour.
Revelation 16:14 ESV / 63 helpful votes
For they are demonic spirits, performing signs, who go abroad to the kings of the whole world, to assemble them for battle on the great day of God the Almighty.
Jude 1:9 ESV / 63 helpful votes
But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.”
Matthew 8:16 ESV / 61 helpful votes
That evening they brought to him many who were oppressed by demons, and he cast out the spirits with a word and healed all who were sick.
Matthew 12:45 ESV / 59 helpful votes
Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and dwell there, and the last state of that person is worse than the first. So also will it be with this evil generation.”
Mark 16:9 ESV / 58 helpful votes
[[Now when he rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons.
Matthew 8:28-34 ESV / 58 helpful votes
And when he came to the other side, to the country of the Gadarenes, two demon-possessed men met him, coming out of the tombs, so fierce that no one could pass that way. And behold, they cried out, “What have you to do with us, O Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?” Now a herd of many pigs was feeding at some distance from them. And the demons begged him, saying, “If you cast us out, send us away into the herd of pigs.” And he said to them, “Go.” So they came out and went into the pigs, and behold, the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea and drowned in the waters. …
Deuteronomy 32:17 ESV / 57 helpful votes
They sacrificed to demons that were no gods, to gods they had never known, to new gods that had come recently, whom your fathers had never dreaded.
Mark 16:17 ESV / 56 helpful votes
And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;
Revelation 9:20 ESV / 54 helpful votes
The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands nor give up worshiping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk,
Luke 9:37-42 ESV / 53 helpful votes
On the next day, when they had come down from the mountain, a great crowd met him. And behold, a man from the crowd cried out, “Teacher, I beg you to look at my son, for he is my only child. And behold, a spirit seizes him, and he suddenly cries out. It convulses him so that he foams at the mouth, and shatters him, and will hardly leave him. And I begged your disciples to cast it out, but they could not.” Jesus answered, “O faithless and twisted generation, how long am I to be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here.” …
1 John 4:4 ESV / 51 helpful votes
Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
Mark 9:38 ESV / 51 helpful votes
John said to him, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him, because he was not following us.”
Revelation 12:4 ESV / 48 helpful votes
His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she bore her child he might devour it.
1 John 4:1 ESV / 47 helpful votes
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.
Revelation 20:10 ESV / 46 helpful votes
And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
Mark 5:12 ESV / 46 helpful votes
And they begged him, saying, “Send us to the pigs; let us enter them.”
Matthew 9:32-33 ESV / 46 helpful votes
As they were going away, behold, a demon-oppressed man who was mute was brought to him. And when the demon had been cast out, the mute man spoke. And the crowds marveled, saying, “Never was anything like this seen in Israel.”
Luke 11:14 ESV / 45 helpful votes
Now he was casting out a demon that was mute. When the demon had gone out, the mute man spoke, and the people marveled.
Mark 6:7 ESV / 45 helpful votes
And he called the twelve and began to send them out two by two, and gave them authority over the unclean spirits.
Leviticus 19:31 ESV / 45 helpful votes
“Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God.
Mark 5:7 ESV / 42 helpful votes
And crying out with a loud voice, he said, “What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, do not torment me.”
Mark 1:23-26 ESV / 42 helpful votes
And immediately there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit. And he cried out, “What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God.” But Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be silent, and come out of him!” And the unclean spirit, convulsing him and crying out with a loud voice, came out of him.
Matthew 17:14-18 ESV / 42 helpful votes
And when they came to the crowd, a man came up to him and, kneeling before him, said, “Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is an epileptic and he suffers terribly. For often he falls into the fire, and often into the water. And I brought him to your disciples, and they could not heal him.” And Jesus answered, “O faithless and twisted generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him here to me.” And Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of him, and the boy was healed instantly.
2 Chronicles 11:15 ESV / 42 helpful votes
And he appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat idols and for the calves that he had made.
1 John 3:8 ESV / 41 helpful votes
Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.
Mark 1:34 ESV / 41 helpful votes
And he healed many who were sick with various diseases, and cast out many demons. And he would not permit the demons to speak, because they knew him.
2 Corinthians 11:14 ESV / 39 helpful votes
And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.
Acts 16:18 ESV / 39 helpful votes
And this she kept doing for many days. Paul, having become greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.” And it came out that very hour.
Luke 8:30 ESV / 39 helpful votes
Jesus then asked him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Legion,” for many demons had entered him.
Matthew 4:24 ESV / 38 helpful votes
So his fame spread throughout all Syria, and they brought him all the sick, those afflicted with various diseases and pains, those oppressed by demons, epileptics, and paralytics, and he healed them.
1 Samuel 16:14 ESV / 38 helpful votes
Now the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and a harmful spirit from the Lord tormented him.
Luke 8:28 ESV / 37 helpful votes
When he saw Jesus, he cried out and fell down before him and said with a loud voice, “What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you, do not torment me.”
Mark 5:2-20 ESV / 37 helpful votes
And when Jesus had stepped out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit. He lived among the tombs. And no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain, for he had often been bound with shackles and chains, but he wrenched the chains apart, and he broke the shackles in pieces. No one had the strength to subdue him. Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always crying out and cutting himself with stones. And when he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and fell down before him. …
Ephesians 6:11 ESV / 35 helpful votes
Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.
Mark 5:1-20 ESV / 35 helpful votes
They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes. And when Jesus had stepped out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit. He lived among the tombs. And no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain, for he had often been bound with shackles and chains, but he wrenched the chains apart, and he broke the shackles in pieces. No one had the strength to subdue him. Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always crying out and cutting himself with stones. …
Mark 3:22 ESV / 35 helpful votes
And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem were saying, “He is possessed by Beelzebul,” and “by the prince of demons he casts out the demons.”
Matthew 8:28 ESV / 35 helpful votes
And when he came to the other side, to the country of the Gadarenes, two demon-possessed men met him, coming out of the tombs, so fierce that no one could pass that way.
Zechariah 13:2 ESV / 35 helpful votes
“And on that day, declares the Lord of hosts, I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, so that they shall be remembered no more. And also I will remove from the land the prophets and the spirit of uncleanness.
Genesis 6:4 ESV / 35 helpful votes
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.
Mark 1:24 ESV / 34 helpful votes
“What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God.”
Matthew 12:24 ESV / 34 helpful votes
But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, “It is only by Beelzebul, the prince of demons, that this man casts out demons.”
1 Kings 22:21-23 ESV / 34 helpful votes
Then a spirit came forward and stood before the Lord, saying, ‘I will entice him.’ And the Lord said to him, ‘By what means?’ And he said, ‘I will go out, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ And he said, ‘You are to entice him, and you shall succeed; go out and do so.’ Now therefore behold, the Lord has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; the Lord has declared disaster for you.”
Acts 19:15 ESV / 32 helpful votes
But the evil spirit answered them, “Jesus I know, and Paul I recognize, but who are you?”
Acts 19:12 ESV / 32 helpful votes
So that even handkerchiefs or aprons that had touched his skin were carried away to the sick, and their diseases left them and the evil spirits came out of them.
Psalm 106:37-38 ESV / 32 helpful votes
They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons; they poured out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood.
Revelation 18:2 ESV / 31 helpful votes
And he called out with a mighty voice, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a dwelling place for demons, a haunt for every unclean spirit, a haunt for every unclean bird, a haunt for every unclean and detestable beast.
Hebrews 1:14 ESV / 31 helpful votes
Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation?
2 Corinthians 4:4 ESV / 31 helpful votes
In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
Mark 1:27 ESV / 31 helpful votes
And they were all amazed, so that they questioned among themselves, saying, “What is this? A new teaching with authority! He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him.”
Acts 5:16 ESV / 30 helpful votes
The people also gathered from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing the sick and those afflicted with unclean spirits, and they were all healed.
John 10:10 ESV / 30 helpful votes
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
Luke 4:33-35 ESV / 29 helpful votes
And in the synagogue there was a man who had the spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice, “Ha! What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God.” But Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be silent and come out of him!” And when the demon had thrown him down in their midst, he came out of him, having done him no harm.
Matthew 9:32 ESV / 29 helpful votes
As they were going away, behold, a demon-oppressed man who was mute was brought to him.
Ephesians 6:10-18 ESV / 28 helpful votes
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm. Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, …
2 Corinthians 11:13-15 ESV / 28 helpful votes
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds.
Romans 6:16 ESV / 28 helpful votes
Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?
Ephesians 2:2 ESV / 27 helpful votes
In which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—
Luke 11:15 ESV / 26 helpful votes
But some of them said, “He casts out demons by Beelzebul, the prince of demons,”
Mark 9:18 ESV / 26 helpful votes
And whenever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams and grinds his teeth and becomes rigid. So I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they were not able.”
Mark 5:9 ESV / 26 helpful votes
And Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” He replied, “My name is Legion, for we are many.”
Mark 1:23-24 ESV / 26 helpful votes
And immediately there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit. And he cried out, “What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God.”
1 Samuel 16:14-23 ESV / 26 helpful votes
Now the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and a harmful spirit from the Lord tormented him. And Saul’s servants said to him, “Behold now, a harmful spirit from God is tormenting you. Let our lord now command your servants who are before you to seek out a man who is skillful in playing the lyre, and when the harmful spirit from God is upon you, he will play it, and you will be well.” So Saul said to his servants, “Provide for me a man who can play well and bring him to me.” One of the young men answered, “Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, who is skillful in playing, a man of valor, a man of war, prudent in speech, and a man of good presence, and the Lord is with him.” …
Mark 7:25-30 ESV / 25 helpful votes
But immediately a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit heard of him and came and fell down at his feet. Now the woman was a Gentile, a Syrophoenician by birth. And she begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter. And he said to her, “Let the children be fed first, for it is not right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.” But she answered him, “Yes, Lord; yet even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.” And he said to her, “For this statement you may go your way; the demon has left your daughter.” …
Mark 5:13 ESV / 25 helpful votes
So he gave them permission. And the unclean spirits came out, and entered the pigs, and the herd, numbering about two thousand, rushed down the steep bank into the sea and were drowned in the sea.
Isaiah 14:12-15 ESV / 25 helpful votes
“How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low! You said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of God I will set my throne on high; I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far reaches of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.’ But you are brought down to Sheol, to the far reaches of the pit.
1 Samuel 19:9 ESV / 25 helpful votes
Then a harmful spirit from the Lord came upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand. And David was playing the lyre.
1 Samuel 18:10 ESV / 25 helpful votes
The next day a harmful spirit from God rushed upon Saul, and he raved within his house while David was playing the lyre, as he did day by day. Saul had his spear in his hand.
Mark 5:15 ESV / 24 helpful votes
And they came to Jesus and saw the demon-possessed man, the one who had had the legion, sitting there, clothed and in his right mind, and they were afraid.
Matthew 8:32 ESV / 24 helpful votes
And he said to them, “Go.” So they came out and went into the pigs, and behold, the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea and drowned in the waters.
2 Corinthians 11:14-15 ESV / 23 helpful votes
And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds.
Matthew 4:9 ESV / 22 helpful votes
And he said to him, “All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me.”
Leviticus 20:27 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
“A man or a woman who is a medium or a necromancer shall surely be put to death. They shall be stoned with stones; their blood shall be upon them.”
Colossians 2:15 ESV / 19 helpful votes
He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him.
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