53 Bible Verses about Spirits

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."

From John to the seven churches that are in Asia the Roman Province. Grace to you, and peace from Him that is and was and is to be, and from the Seven Spirits that are before his throne,

To the angel of the Church at Sardis, write. These things says He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars. I know your works, that you have the name of being alive, but are really dead.

From the throne issued lightning and voices and thunders. Seven blazing lamps were burning before the throne; these are the seven Spirits of God.

Then I beheld a Lamb standing as if slain in the midst of the throne and of the four Living Creatures, and in the midst of the Elders. He had seven horns and seven eyes (which are the seven Spirits of God, sent forth into all the earth).

And her spirit returned and instantly she stood up.

Then with a loud cry, Jesus said, "Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit!" And after uttering these words, he yielded up his spirit.

What is born of the flesh is flesh; and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

So they stoned Stephen while he prayed, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit."

So just as the body without a spirit is dead, so faith is dead without deeds.

to the festal assemblage and church of the firstborn, registered in heaven, to a Judge who is God of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,

Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth for service in behalf of those who are about to inherit salvation?

For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel nor spirit; the Pharisees affirm them all.

No wonder! for Satan himself disguises himself as an angel of light.

Put on all the panoply of God, so that you may be able to stand your ground against the stratagems of the devil. For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the despotisms, the empires, the rulers of this present darkness, the spirit-hosts of evil in the heavenly realm.

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. 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.

Those who were tormented by unclean spirits were healed also.

At that moment Jesus was healing many people of diseases and plagues and evil spirits, and to many that were blind he was freely giving their sight.

(It was in spirit that he went and preached the Word to the spirits who were in prison,

He shouted with a mighty cry, saying. "She is fallen! She is fallen, Babylon the great! Now she is a dwelling-place of demons, A stronghold of every foul spirit, A stronghold of every foul and hateful bird.

Be temperate, be vigilant; because your enemy, the devil, is prowling about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith, knowing well that the same afflictions are being accomplished in your brothers that are in the world.

Then Jesus was led up into the desert by the Spirit, to be tempted by the devil.

and he remained in the desert for forty days, tempted by Satan; and he was among the wild beasts, but the angels were ministering to him.

He ate nothing during these days, and at the close of them he was hungry.

So then ever be subject to God, Ever resist the devil and he will flee from you. Draw near to God And he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, And purify your hearts, you double-minded.

"Master," answered one of the crowd, "I brought my son to you; he has a dumb spirit in him; and wherever it seizes him it dashes him down; he foams at the mouth, and grinds his teeth, and is wasting away. I begged your disciples to cast it out, but they could not."

"and behold a spirit seizes hold of him, and rudely he shouts out, It convulses him till he foams; indeed it will hardly leave off bruising him sorely.

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.

When he landed here he was met by a certain townsman who was possessed by demons. For a long time he had worn no clothes and nor lived in any house, but in tombs.

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."

Forthwith a woman whose little daughter was possessed by an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet

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

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

At evening-time they brought to him many demoniacs. He cast out the demons with a word, and healed all who were ill,

He cured many who were ill with various diseases, and drove out many demons. But he did not allow the demons to speak, because they knew who he was.

At sunset all they who had any sick with any sort of disease brought them to him; and he laid his hands on every one of them and healed them.

"But if it is in the power of the Spirit of God is already upon you.

"But if it is by the finger of God that I am casting out demons, then the kingdom of God is come upon you.

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

And when Jesus saw that a crowd came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit. "You dumb and deaf spirit," he said, "come out of him, I command you, and never enter him again." So with a loud shriek it came out, after throwing the boy into convulsion after convulsion. The boy looked like a corpse, so that most of them said that he was dead.

But while he was yet coming the demon dashed him down, and cruelly convulsed him. Then Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and cured the boy, and gave him back to his father.

The people of the towns near Jerusalem also continued to come in crowds, bringing their sick and those who were harried by unclean spirits, and all of them were healed.

For with a loud cry unclean spirits would come out of many possessed by them, and many that were palsied and lame were healed.

Do not believe every spirit, beloved, but test the spirits to see whether they are of God; for many false prophets are gone out into the world.

to another the powers which work miracles, to another prophecy, to another the discernment of spirits; to another varieties of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.

By this you know the Spirit of God; every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is from God; and every spirit which confesses him not, is not from God. And this is that spirit of Antichrist of which you have heard that it is coming, and that now it is already in the world. My little children, you are of God and have conquered them; because he that is within you is greater than he that is in the world.read more.
They are of the world, and for this reason they speak as of the world, and the world listens to them. But you are of God. He who is beginning to know God listens to us; he who is not of God does not listen to us. By this we may distinguish the spirit of truth from the spirit of error.

and in him you have your fulness, and he is the Lord of all the principalities and powers.