Devil in the Bible

Thematic Bible



The rest of the people who survived these plagues did not repent from their evil actions or stop worshiping demons and idols made of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which cannot see, hear, or walk.

Jeroboam had appointed his own priests to serve at the high places and to serve the satyrs and calves that he had made.

They are no longer to slaughter their sacrifices to the goat demons, with whom they have been committing prostitution. This will be a perpetual statute for you throughout your generations.

They sacrificed to demons not to the real God gods whom they didn't know, new neighbors who had recently appeared, whom your ancestors never feared.

They sacrificed their sons and daughters to demons.

Hardly! What they offer, they offer to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to become partners with demons.

They worshipped the dragon because it had given authority to the beast. They also worshipped the beast, saying, "Who is like the beast, and who can fight a war with it?"


Be clear-minded and alert. Your opponent, the Devil, is prowling around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.

"Be angry, yet do not sin." Do not let the sun set while you are still angry, and do not give the Devil an opportunity to work.

Put on the whole armor of God so that you may be able to stand firm against the Devil's strategies.

Therefore, submit yourselves to God. Resist the Devil, and he will run away from you.


You belong to your father the Devil, and you want to carry out the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and has never stood for truth, since there is no truth in him. Whenever he tells a lie, he speaks in character, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

This is how God's children and the Devil's children are distinguished. No person who fails to practice righteousness and to love his brother is from God.

while the field is the world. The good seed are those who belong to the kingdom, while the weeds are those who belong to the evil one.

and said, "You're full of every form of deception and trickery, you son of the Devil, you enemy of all that is right! You'll never stop perverting the straight ways of the Lord, will you?


References

Hastings

Easton

American

Fausets

Smith

Watsons

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