'Evil Spirit' in the Bible

But an evil spirit of this kind is only driven out by prayer and fasting."

"An evil spirit of this kind," He answered, "can only be driven out by prayer."

He immediately cured many of diseases, severe pain, and evil spirits, and to many who were blind He gave the gift of sight.

and certain women whom He had delivered from evil spirits and various diseases--Mary of Magdala, out of whom seven demons had come,

Towels or aprons, for instance, which Paul had handled used to be carried to the sick, and they recovered from their ailments, or the evil spirits left them.

But there were also some wandering Jewish exorcists who undertook to invoke the name of Jesus over those who had the evil spirits, saying, "I command you by that Jesus whom Paul preaches."

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

And the man in whom the evil spirit was sprang on two of them, over-mastered them both, and treated them with such violence, that they fled from the house stripped of their clothes and wounded.

You believe that God is one, and you are quite right: evil spirits also believe this, and shudder."

That is not the wisdom which comes down from above: it belongs to earth, to the unspiritual nature, and to evil spirits.