Thematic Bible: Confess Christ


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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?


And behold, they cried out, saying, "{What do you have to do with us}, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?"

saying, "{Leave us alone}, Jesus the Nazarene! Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are--the Holy One of God!"

And the unclean spirits, whenever they saw him, were falling down before him and crying out, saying, "You are the Son of God!"

And demons also were coming out of many, crying out and saying, "You are the Son of God!" And he rebuked [them] [and] did not permit them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.

But the evil spirit answered [and] said to them, "Jesus I know, and Paul I am acquainted with, but who are you?"



Cleanse your heart from wickedness, Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. {How long} will your thoughts of mischief dwell in your inner part?


{Take care} so that there will not be {a thought of wickedness} in your heart, {saying}, 'The seventh year, the year of the remission of debt is near,' {and you view your needy neighbor with hostility}, and [so] you [do] not give to him, and he might cry [out] against you to Yahweh, and {you would incur guilt against yourself}.




For, like hair in his {throat}, so it is. "Eat and drink!" he will say to you, but his heart will not be with you.

"And I--their works and thoughts!--[am] about to come to gather all nations and tongues, and they shall come and see my glory.




and threw him into the abyss, and shut [it] and sealed [it] above him, in order that he could not deceive the nations again until the thousand years are completed. After these [things] it is necessary [for] him to be released [for] a short time.



And [the] angels who did not keep to their own domain but deserted their proper dwelling place, he has kept in eternal bonds under deep gloom for the judgment of the great day,


And behold, they cried out, saying, "{What do you have to do with us}, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?"



Then it goes and brings along seven other spirits more evil than itself, and [they] go in [and] live there. And the last [state] of that person becomes worse than the first!"


So Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" And he said, "Legion," because many demons had entered into him.



And [when] the devil had completed every temptation, he departed from him until a favorable time.

Jesus answered and said, "This voice has not happened for my sake, but [for] your sake. Now is the judgment of this world! Now the ruler of this world will be thrown out!










[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!