38 Bible Verses about Demonic Influence

For these are the spirits of demons performing miracles, who go forth to the kings of the habitable earth, to gather them together for the battle of the great Day of God, the Almighty.

"Then it says, "'I will go back to my house which I left'; and on arrival finds it empty, swept, and garnished.

On the contrary, what the heathen sacrifice they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to have communion with demons.

Now the Spirit distinctly declares that in latter days there will be some who will fall away from the faith, by listening to spirits of error, and to teachings of demons

Then Jesus rebuked the evil spirit, and it came out of him; and the boy was cured from that very hour.

And there was in the synagogue a man possessed by the spirit of a foul demon. He cried out, in a loud voice, saying.

Behold, there came to him a Canaanite woman of those parts. She wailed loudly, saying. "Pity me, Lord, thou Son of David! My daughter is possessed of an evil spirit."

in which you passed your lives after the way of this world, under the sway of the Prince of the Powers of the Air, the spirit who is now working among the sons of disobedience.

When the Pharisees heard it they said, "It is only by the aid of Beelzebub, the Prince of the demons, that this fellow is driving out demons."

Many of them kept saying. "He has a demon and is mad! Why do you listen to him?"

Give the devil no place.

Wherefore I want you to understand that no one who speaks in the Spirit of God says, "Jesus is accursed," and no one can say, "Jesus is Lord," except in the Holy Spirit.

She persisted in this for many days, until Paul, worn out, turned round and said to the spirit, "I charge you, in the name of Jesus Christ, to come out of her." In that very hour it came out of her.

As he was getting into the boat the man who had been demon-possessed kept begging to go with him; but he said,

Once he was casting out a dumb demon, and when the demon was gone out, the dumb man spoke, and the people wondered.

"Whenever an unclean spirit leaves a man, it wanders through waterless places, seeking rest but finding none.

When he arrived on the other side, in the country of the Gadarenes, he was met by two demoniacs who were coming out of the tombs. They were so violently fierce that no one dared pass along that road.

"For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they said, 'He has a demon';

"Ha! Jesus of Nazareth, what business have you with us? Are you come to destroy us? I know you who you are, you holy one of God!"

And at that very moment, there in their synagogue, a man in the grip of an unclean spirit shrieked out.

In reply the Jews said to him, "Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan, and you also have a demon?"

But the Pharisees kept saying, "It is in the power of the Prince of the demons that he is casting out demons."

"Many in that day will say to me, "'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in your name, and in your name cast out demons, and in your name done many mighty works?'

And Jesus rebuked him, saying. "Be quiet! Come out of him." And when the demon had thrown the man down before them, he came out of him without doing him any harm.

Others were saying. "These are not the words of one demon-possessed. Can a demoniac open the eyes of the blind?"

The Scribes also who had come down from Jerusalem, said, "He is Beelzebub," and, "He casts out demons by the power of the Prince of the demons."

"You Son of God," they shouted, "what have you to do with us? Are you come to torment us before the time?"

We are not to be like Cain, who belonged to the Evil One, and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? It was because his own deeds were evil, and his brother's, righteous.

"Master," said John, "we saw a man who was casting out demons in your name, and we forbade him, because he was not following us."

"Master, take pity on my son, for he is an epileptic and sore distressed. Often he falls into the fire and often into the water.

And I saw three unclean spirits, like frogs, coming out of the dragon's mouth, and the beast's mouth, and the false prophet's mouth.

Such wisdom is not that which is descending from on high, but is earthly, sensual, demonlike.

You believe that God is one? You do well; even the demons believe, and they shudder.

So when he had dipped the bread, he took it and gave it to Judas Iscariot, son of Simon. And after he had received the piece of bread, Satan entered into him. "What you do, do quickly," said Jesus.

And his fame spread throughout all Syria. They brought all the sick to him, those who were suffering from various diseases and troubles??emoniacs, epileptics, paralytics??nd he healed them.

"O full of all craft and cunning, you son of the devil! You enemy of all goodness! Will you never stop perverting the right ways of the Lord?

In reply Jesus said to them. "Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? And yet even of you one is an enemy."

But the evil spirit answered, "Jesus I know, and Paul I have heard of, but who are you?"