41 Bible Verses about Demons
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And Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" He said, "Legion!" For many demons had gone into him.
You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot eat at the table of the Lord and at the table of demons.
Cure the sick, raise the dead, heal lepers, drive out demons. Give without payment, just as you received without payment.
And signs like these will attend those who believe: with my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in foreign tongues;
No, but that what the heathen sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to have fellowship with demons.
And the demons entreated him, saying, "If you are going to drive us out, send us into the drove of pigs."
Then it goes and gets seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there, and in the end the man is worse off than he was before. That is the way it will be with this present wicked age."
They are demon spirits that perform wonders, and they go out to the kings all over the world to muster them for battle on the great Day of God Almighty.
The seventy-two came back delighted, and said, "Master, when we use your name the very demons submit to us!"
John said to him, "Master, we saw a man driving out demons with your name, and we told him not to do so, for he was not one of our followers."
Some Jews who went from place to place casting out demons tried to use the name of the Lord Jesus in the cases of people who had evil spirits in them, saying, "I command you in the name of Jesus whom Paul preaches!"
The Spirit distinctly says that in later times some will turn away from the faith, and devote their attention to deceitful spirits and the things that demons teach
and some women who had been cured of evil spirits and sickness??ary, who was called Mary of Magdala, out of whom seven demons had been driven,
And when he landed, he met a man possessed by demons, who was coming out of the town. He had worn no clothing for a long time, and did not live in a house but in the tombs.
When he reached the other side, in the region of Gadara, two men possessed by demons came out of the tombs and confronted him; they were so extremely violent that nobody could go along that road.
But when the Pharisees heard of it they said, "This man cannot drive out demons except by the aid of Beelzebub, the prince of the demons."
But if I am driving the demons out by the aid of God's Spirit, then the Kingdom of God has overtaken you.
But some of them said, "It is with the aid of Beelzebub, the prince of the demons, that he drives the demons out."
Afterward, when he was alone, the disciples went to Jesus and said to him, "Why could we not drive it out?"
He asked him, "What is your name?" He said, "My name is Legion, for there are many of us."
Many will say to me on that Day, 'Lord! Lord! Was it not in your name that we prophesied, and by your name that we drove out demons, and by your name that we did many mighty acts?'
And they suddenly screamed out, "What do you want of us, you Son of God? Have you come here before the appointed time to torture us?"
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Demons » Cast out of men
Even from the towns around Jerusalem crowds would come in bringing sick people and those who were troubled with foul spirits, and they were all cured.
She did this for a number of days, until Paul, very much annoyed, turned and said to the spirit in her, "In the name of Jesus Christ I order you to come out of her!" And it came out instantly.
that people took to the sick handkerchiefs or aprons he had used, and they were cured of their diseases, and the evil spirits went out of them.
Then Jesus answered, "You have great faith! You shall have what you want." And her daughter was cured from that time.
And Jesus reproved the demon and it came out of him, and from that moment the boy was cured.
Demons » Confess Christ » Worship of
Yet what was left of mankind, those who escaped being killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands and give up worshiping demons and gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wooden idols, which cannot either see or hear or move,
Demons » Worship of
The Spirit distinctly says that in later times some will turn away from the faith, and devote their attention to deceitful spirits and the things that demons teach
No, but that what the heathen sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to have fellowship with demons. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot eat at the table of the Lord and at the table of demons.
Demons » Punishment of
Then he will say to those at his left, 'Begone, you accursed people, to the everlasting fire destined for the devil and his angels!
For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but plunged them into Tartarus, and committed them to dark dungeons to await their doom,
and the angels who neglected their responsibilities and abandoned their homes he has put in everlasting chains to be kept in darkness for the judgment of the great Day,
And they suddenly screamed out, "What do you want of us, you Son of God? Have you come here before the appointed time to torture us?"
When he saw Jesus he cried out and threw himself down before him, and said in a loud voice, "What do you want of me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you not to torture me!"
Demons » Testify to the divinity of jesus
And they suddenly screamed out, "What do you want of us, you Son of God? Have you come here before the appointed time to torture us?"
And whenever the foul spirits saw him, they fell down before him and screamed out, "You are the Son of God!"
When he saw Jesus he cried out and threw himself down before him, and said in a loud voice, "What do you want of me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you not to torture me!"
Just then there was in their synagogue a man under the control of a foul spirit, and he cried out, "What do you want of us, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, you are God's holy One!"
Demons » The epileptic boy
When they came to the people again, a man came up to him and fell on his knees, saying, "Master, take pity on my son, for he has epilepsy, and is very wretched; he often falls into the fire or into the water. And I brought him to your disciples and they have not been able to cure him." read more.
Jesus answered, "O you unbelieving, obstinate people! How long must I be with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring him here to me!" And Jesus reproved the demon and it came out of him, and from that moment the boy was cured.
One of the crowd answered, "Master, I brought my son to you, for he is possessed by a dumb spirit, and wherever it seizes him it convulses him, and he foams at the mouth and grinds his teeth; and he is wasting away. I told your disciples to drive it out, and they could not do it." He answered them and said, "O you unbelieving people, how long must I be with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring him here to me!" read more.
And they brought the boy to him. As soon as the spirit saw him, it convulsed the boy, and he fell down on the ground and rolled about, foaming at the mouth. Jesus asked the boy's father, "How long has he been like this?" And he said, "From his childhood, and many a time it has thrown him into the fire or into the water, to put an end to him. But if there is anything you can do, take pity on us and help us!" Jesus said to him, " 'If there is anything I can do!' Everything is possible for one who has faith!" The boy's father immediately cried out, "I have faith! Help my want of faith!" Then Jesus, seeing that a crowd was rapidly gathering, reproved the foul spirit and said to it, "You deaf and dumb spirit, get out of him, I charge you, and never enter him again!" And it gave a cry and convulsed him terribly, and went out of him. And the boy was like a corpse, so that most of them said that he was dead. But Jesus grasped his hand and made him rise, and he stood up.
The next day, when they had come down from the mountain, it happened that a great crowd met him. And a man in the crowd shouted, "Master, I beg you to look at my son, for he is my only child, and all at once a spirit seizes him, and he suddenly cries out, and it convulses him until he foams at the mouth, and it leaves him, after a struggle, badly bruised. read more.
And I begged your disciples to drive it out, and they could not." Jesus answered, "O you unbelieving, obstinate people! How long must I be with you and put up with you? Bring your son here!" Even while the boy was coming, the demon threw him down and convulsed him, but Jesus reproved the foul spirit and cured the boy and gave him back to his father.
Demons » Jesus falsely accused of being possessed of
The crowd answered, "You must be possessed! Who is trying to kill you?"
And the scribes who had come down from Jerusalem said that he was possessed by Beelzebub and drove out demons by the help of the prince of demons. So he called them to him and spoke to them in figures, saying, "How can Satan drive Satan out? If a kingdom is disunited, that kingdom cannot last. read more.
And if a household is disunited, that household cannot last. And if Satan has rebelled against himself and become disunited, he cannot last but is coming to his end. But no one can go into a strong man's house and carry off his property unless he first binds the strong man; after that he can plunder his house. I tell you, men will be forgiven for everything, for all their sins and all the abusive things they say. But whoever reviles the holy Spirit can never be forgiven, but is guilty of an unending sin." This was because they said, "He is possessed by a foul spirit."
The Jews answered, "Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and are possessed?"
Demons » Possession by, instances of » saul
Demons » To be judged at the general judgment
For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but plunged them into Tartarus, and committed them to dark dungeons to await their doom,
and the angels who neglected their responsibilities and abandoned their homes he has put in everlasting chains to be kept in darkness for the judgment of the great Day,
And they suddenly screamed out, "What do you want of us, you Son of God? Have you come here before the appointed time to torture us?"
Demons » Cast out by jesus
And the scribes who had come down from Jerusalem said that he was possessed by Beelzebub and drove out demons by the help of the prince of demons.
Word went all through Syria about him, and people brought to him all who were suffering with any kind of disease, or who were in great pain??emoniacs, epileptics, and paralytics??nd he cured them.
In the evening they brought to him many who were possessed by demons, and he drove the spirits out with a word, and cured all who were sick,
And demons came out of many people, crying out, "You are the Son of God!" But he reproved them and forbade them to speak, because they knew he was the Christ.
Demons » Forbidden worship
Yet what was left of mankind, those who escaped being killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands and give up worshiping demons and gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wooden idols, which cannot either see or hear or move,
Demons » The daughter of the syrophoenician woman
And a Canaanite woman of that district came out and screamed, "Son of David, take pity on me, sir! My daughter is dreadfully possessed by a demon!" But he would not answer her a word. And his disciples came up and urged him, saying, "Send her away, for she keeps screaming after us." But he answered, "I am sent only to the lost sheep of Israel's house." read more.
And she came and fell down before him, and said, "Help me, sir!" He said, "It is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs!" But she said, "O yes, sir! For even dogs eat the scraps that fall from their masters' table!" Then Jesus answered, "You have great faith! You shall have what you want." And her daughter was cured from that time. Jesus left that place and went along the shore of the Sea of Galilee, and went up on the hillside and sat down there.
but a woman whose little daughter was possessed by a foul spirit immediately heard about him and came and threw herself at his feet. Now the woman was a Greek, of Syrophoenician birth. And she begged him to drive the demon out of her daughter. He said to her, "Let the children first eat all they want, for it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs." read more.
But she answered, "True, sir! and still the dogs under the table eat what the children leave!" He said to her, "If you can say that, go home; the demon has left your daughter." And she went home and found the child lying on the bed, and the demon gone.
Demons » Power over, given the disciples
Then he called his twelve disciples to him, and gave them power over the foul spirits so that they could drive them out, and so that they could heal any disease or illness.
And he called the Twelve to him and sent them off two by two, giving them power over the foul spirits.
And signs like these will attend those who believe: with my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in foreign tongues;
Demons » The man in the synagogue
Just then there was in their synagogue a man under the control of a foul spirit, and he cried out, "What do you want of us, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, you are God's holy One!" Jesus reproved him, and said, "Silence! Get out of him!" read more.
The foul spirit convulsed the man and gave a loud cry and went out of him.
There was a man in the synagogue who was possessed by the spirit of a foul demon and he cried out loudly, "Ha! What do you want of us, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are! You are God's Holy One!" Jesus reproved him and said, "Silence! Get out of him!" And the demon threw the man down in the midst of them, and came out of him, without doing him any harm.
Demons » Two men of the gergesenes (gadarenes, gerasenes)
When he reached the other side, in the region of Gadara, two men possessed by demons came out of the tombs and confronted him; they were so extremely violent that nobody could go along that road. And they suddenly screamed out, "What do you want of us, you Son of God? Have you come here before the appointed time to torture us?" Now at some distance from them there was a great drove of pigs feeding. read more.
And the demons entreated him, saying, "If you are going to drive us out, send us into the drove of pigs." And he said to them, "Begone!" And they came out and went into the pigs. And suddenly the whole drove rushed over the steep bank into the sea, and perished in the water. And the men who tended them ran away and went off to the town and told it all, and the news about the men possessed by demons. And the whole town came out to meet Jesus, and when they saw him they begged him to go away from their district.
As soon as he got out of the boat, a man possessed by a foul spirit came out of the burial places near by to meet him. This man lived among the tombs, and no one could any longer secure him even with a chain, for he had often been fastened with fetters and chains and had snapped the chains and broken the fetters; and there was no one strong enough to master him, read more.
and night and day he was always shrieking among the tombs and on the hills and cutting himself with stones. And catching sight of Jesus in the distance he ran up and made obeisance to him and screamed out, "What do you want of me, Jesus, son of the Most High God? In God's name, I implore you, do not torture me." For he was saying to him, "You foul spirit, come out of this man." He asked him, "What is your name?" He said, "My name is Legion, for there are many of us." And they begged him earnestly not to send them out of that country. Now there was a great drove of pigs feeding there on the hillside. And they implored him, "Send us among the pigs, let us go into them." So he gave them permission. And the foul spirits came out and went into the pigs, and the drove of about two thousand rushed over the steep bank into the sea, and were drowned. And the men who tended them ran away and spread the news in the town and in the country around, and the people came to see what had happened. When they came to Jesus and found the demoniac sitting quietly with his clothes on and in his right mind??he same man who had been possessed by Legion??hey were frightened. And those who had seen it told them what had happened to the demoniac, and all about the pigs. And they began to beg him to leave their district. As he was getting into the boat, the man who had been possessed begged to be allowed to go with him. And he would not permit it, but said to him, "Go home to your own people, and tell them all the Lord has done for you and how he took pity on you." And he went off and began to tell everybody in the Ten Towns all Jesus had done for him; and they were all astonished.
Demons » Cast out » By paul
that people took to the sick handkerchiefs or aprons he had used, and they were cured of their diseases, and the evil spirits went out of them.
Once as we were on our way to the praying place a slave-girl met us who had the gift of ventriloquism, and made her masters a great deal of money by her fortune-telling. This girl would follow Paul and the rest of us, crying out, "These men are slaves of the Most High God, and they are making known to you a way of salvation." She did this for a number of days, until Paul, very much annoyed, turned and said to the spirit in her, "In the name of Jesus Christ I order you to come out of her!" And it came out instantly.
Demons » The deaf and blind man
At that time some people brought to him a man blind and dumb, who was possessed by a demon, and he cured him, so that the dumb man could speak and see.
Once he was driving out a dumb demon, and when the demon was gone the dumb man spoke. And the people were amazed.
Demons » Cast out » By the disciples
The seventy-two came back delighted, and said, "Master, when we use your name the very demons submit to us!"
John said to him, "Master, we saw a man driving out demons with your name, and we told him not to do so, for he was not one of our followers."
Demons » Mary magdalene
Now after he had risen, early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary of Magdala, from whom he had driven out seven evil spirits.
and some women who had been cured of evil spirits and sickness??ary, who was called Mary of Magdala, out of whom seven demons had been driven, and Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod's manager, and Susanna, and many others, who provided for them with their means.
Demons » Disciples could not expel
and wherever it seizes him it convulses him, and he foams at the mouth and grinds his teeth; and he is wasting away. I told your disciples to drive it out, and they could not do it."
When he had gone home, and his disciples were alone with him, they asked him, "Why could not we drive it out?" He said to them, "This kind of thing can be driven out only by prayer."
Demons » Messages given false prophets by
Demons » Parable of the man repossessed by unclean spirits
"When a foul spirit goes out of a man, it roams through deserts in search of rest and can find none. Then it says, 'I will go back to my house that I left,' and it goes and finds it unoccupied, cleaned, and all in order. Then it goes and gets seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there, and in the end the man is worse off than he was before. That is the way it will be with this present wicked age."
Demons » Sceva's sons exorcise
Some Jews who went from place to place casting out demons tried to use the name of the Lord Jesus in the cases of people who had evil spirits in them, saying, "I command you in the name of Jesus whom Paul preaches!" A Jewish high priest named Sceva had seven sons who were doing this. But the evil spirit answered, "I know Jesus, and I know of Paul, but who are you?" read more.
And the man in whom the evil spirit was sprang at them, and overpowered them all, with such violence that they ran out of the house tattered and bruised.
Demons » The herd of swine
Now at some distance from them there was a great drove of pigs feeding. And the demons entreated him, saying, "If you are going to drive us out, send us into the drove of pigs." And he said to them, "Begone!" And they came out and went into the pigs. And suddenly the whole drove rushed over the steep bank into the sea, and perished in the water.
Demons » The deaf man
But just as they were going out, some people brought to him a dumb man who was possessed by a demon, and as soon as the demon was driven out, the dumb man was able to speak. And the crowds were amazed, and said, "Nothing like this was ever seen in Israel!"
Demons » Believe and tremble
Demons » Adversaries of men
Then it goes and gets seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there, and in the end the man is worse off than he was before. That is the way it will be with this present wicked age."
Demons » Cast out » By peter
Even from the towns around Jerusalem crowds would come in bringing sick people and those who were troubled with foul spirits, and they were all cured.
Demons » Sent to foment trouble between abimelech and the shechemites
Demons » Cast out » By philip
for with loud cries foul spirits came out of many who had been possessed by them, and many paralytics and lame people were cured.
Fear of God » Instances of guilty fear » Demons
Legion » Demons
When they came to Jesus and found the demoniac sitting quietly with his clothes on and in his right mind??he same man who had been possessed by Legion??hey were frightened.
He asked him, "What is your name?" He said, "My name is Legion, for there are many of us."
Topics on Demons
Casting Out Demons
Mark 3:15with power to drive out the demons. These were the twelve he appointed:
Demons Causing Illness
Mark 9:17-27One of the crowd answered, "Master, I brought my son to you, for he is possessed by a dumb spirit,
Demons Causing Torment
Matthew 15:22And a Canaanite woman of that district came out and screamed, "Son of David, take pity on me, sir! My daughter is dreadfully possessed by a demon!"
Demons Entering
John 13:27After he took the bread, Satan took possession of him. Then Jesus said to him, "Be quick about your business."
Demons Harming Individuals
Mark 5:5and night and day he was always shrieking among the tombs and on the hills and cutting himself with stones.
Demons, Christ's Authority
Ephesians 1:19-22and how surpassingly great his power is for us who believe; like the mighty strength
Demons, Delivered From
Mark 5:15When they came to Jesus and found the demoniac sitting quietly with his clothes on and in his right mind??he same man who had been possessed by Legion??hey were frightened.
Demons, Evil Work Of
Mark 5:5and night and day he was always shrieking among the tombs and on the hills and cutting himself with stones.
Demons, Exorcism Of
Luke 13:32He said to them, "Go and say to that fox, 'Here I am, driving out demons and performing cures, today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will be through.
demons, Kinds of
1 Corinthians 10:20-21No, but that what the heathen sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to have fellowship with demons.
Demons, Nature Of
Luke 10:17-18The seventy-two came back delighted, and said, "Master, when we use your name the very demons submit to us!"
Demons, Punishment Of
Revelation 20:10and the devil who led them astray was flung into the fiery, sulphurous lake, where the animal and the false prophet were, there to be tortured day and night forever and ever.
Jesus Casting Out Demons
Matthew 4:10Then Jesus said to him, "Begone, Satan! For the Scripture says, 'You must do homage to the Lord your God, and worship him alone!' "
Judgment Of Demons
John 12:31The judgment of this world is now in progress. Its evil genius is now to be expelled,
People Casting Out Demons
Matthew 10:8Cure the sick, raise the dead, heal lepers, drive out demons. Give without payment, just as you received without payment.