Devil in the Bible

Thematic Bible



And the rest of humanity who were not killed by these plagues did not repent of the works of their hands, {in order not to worship} the demons and the gold and silver and bronze and stone and wooden idols, which are able neither to see nor to hear nor to walk,

And he appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat idols and for the bull calves that he had made.

And {they may no longer sacrifice} their sacrifices to the goat-idols after which they were prostituting. This is {a lasting statute} for them {throughout} their generations." '

They sacrificed to the demons, not God, [to] gods whom they had not known, new [gods] [who] came from recent times; {their ancestors had not known them}.

They even sacrificed their sons and daughters to the demons,

[No], but that [the things] which they sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to become sharers with demons.

And they worshiped the dragon because he had given authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, "Who [is] like the beast, and who is able to make war with him?


Be sober; be on the alert. Your adversary the devil walks around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.

Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun set on your anger, nor give place to the devil.

Put on the full armor of God, so that you may be able to stand against the stratagems of the devil,

Therefore subject yourselves to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.


You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father! That one was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand firm in the truth, because truth is not in him. Whenever he speaks the lie, he speaks from his own [nature], because he is a liar and the father {of lies}.

By this the children of God and the children of the devil are evident: everyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, namely, the one who does not love his brother.

and the field is the world. And the good seed--these are the sons of the kingdom, but the darnel are the sons of the evil one.

[and] said, "O [you who are] full of all deceit and of all unscrupulousness, [you] son of the devil, [you] enemy of all righteousness! Will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord!


References

Hastings

Easton

American

Fausets

Smith

Watsons