38 Bible Verses about Demonic Influence

They are the spirits of demons that perform wonders, and they go forth to the kings of the whole world, to muster them for battle on the great day of the Almighty God.

Then it says, 'I will go back to my house which I left,' and it finds it unoccupied, swept, and ready for use.

I mean that what the heathen sacrifice they sacrifice to demons, not to God, and I do not want you to be in fellowship with demons.

Now the Spirit distinctly declares that in later times some will turn away from the faith, because they continuously give their attention to deceiving spirits and the things that demons teach

And Jesus reproved the demon, and it came out of him, and the boy was cured that very moment.

Now there was a man in the synagogue who was under the power of the spirit of a foul demon, and he screamed with a loud voice,

And a Canaanite woman of that district came out and pleaded, saying, "Do pity me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is suffering horrors from a demon."

in which you once lived in accordance with the spirit of this present world, and the mighty prince of the air, who is always at work in the disobedient, among whom all of us, we Jews as well as you heathen,

But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, "This man is not driving out demons except by the help of Beelzebub, the prince of the demons."

Many of them said, "He is under the power of a demon and is going crazy. Why are you listening to Him?"

stop giving the devil a chance.

So I want to inform you that no one speaking under the power of the Spirit of God can say, "Jesus is accursed!" and no one except one under the power of the Holy Spirit can really say, "Jesus is Lord!"

She kept this up for a number of days. Because Paul was so much annoyed by her, he turned and said to the spirit in her, "In the name of Jesus Christ I order you to come out of her." And that very moment it came out.

And as He was getting into the boat, the once insane man kept begging Him to let him go with Him.

Now He was driving a dumb demon out of a man, and when the demon went out of him, the dumb man spoke. The crowds were astonished.

"Whenever the foul spirit goes out of a man, it wanders about in deserts in search of rest, but cannot find it.

When He reached the other side, in the district of Gadara, there faced Him two men, who were under the power of demons, who were just coming out from the tombs. They were such terrors that nobody could pass that way.

For John came neither eating nor drinking with others, and yet they said, 'He has a demon.'

"Ha! What do you want of us, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are. You are God's Holy One."

Just at that moment there was a man in their synagogue who was under the spell of a foul spirit, and so he screamed,

Then the Jews answered Him, "Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and are under the power of a demon?"

But the Pharisees kept on saying, "It is by the help of the prince of the demons that He drives them out."

Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, was it not in your name that we prophesied, and in your name that we drove out demons, and in your name that we did many wonder-works?'

But Jesus reproved him, saying "Be quiet! Get out of him at once!" So the demon threw the man down in the midst of them and came out of him without doing him any harm.

Others said, "These are not the words of a man who is under the power of a demon. A demon cannot make the eyes of the blind see, can he?"

And the scribes who had come down from Jerusalem kept saying, "He is under the spell of Beelzebub and by the help of the prince of the demons He drives out the demons."

And they suddenly screamed, "What do you want of us, you Son of God? Have you come here before the appointed time to torture us?"

We must not be like Cain who belonged to the evil one and butchered his brother. And why did he butcher him? Because his own actions were wicked and his brother's upright.

Then John answered, "Master, we saw a man driving out demons by the use of your name, and we tried to stop him, because he does not belong to our followers."

"Lord, do pity my son, for he has epilepsy and suffers excruciating pain, and often falls into the fire or into the water.

Then I saw three foul spirits leap like frogs from the mouth of the dragon, from the mouth of the wild beast, and from the mouth of the false prophet.

This is not the kind of wisdom that comes down from above; no, it is earthly, human, demoniacal.

Do you believe in one God? Very well; the demons, too, believe that, and shudder.

As soon as he took the bread, Satan took possession of Judas. Then Jesus said to him, "Make quick work of what you are to do."

So the news about Him spread all over Syria, and people brought to Him all who were sick with various diseases, especially those who were suffering with torturing diseases; and he cured them.

and said, "You expert in every form of deception and sleight-of-hand, you son of the devil, you enemy of all that is right, will you never stop trying to make the Lord's straight paths crooked!

Jesus answered them, "Did I not myself select you as the Twelve? And yet one of you is a devil."

But on one occasion the evil spirit answered, "Jesus I know and Paul I know about, but who are you?"