15 Bible Verses about Satan, Work Of

Then Jesus was led into the desert by the Spirit to be tempted by the devil.

So the tempter came up and said to him, "If you are God's son, tell these stones to become loaves."

When anyone hears the word of the Realm and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart; that is the man who is sown 'on the road.'

the field is the world; the good seed means the sons of the Realm; the weeds are the sons of the evil one;

the enemy who sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world, and the reapers are angels.

Before the boy could reach Jesus, the daemon dashed him down and convulsed him, but Jesus checked the unclean spirit, cured the boy, and handed him back to his father.

And this woman, a daughter of Abraham, bound by Satan for all these eighteen years, was she not to be freed from her bondage on the sabbath?"

You belong to your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires; he was a slayer of men from the very beginning, and he has no place in the truth because there is no truth in him: when he tells a lie, he is expressing his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

so at supper, knowing that though the devil had suggested to Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him,

"Ananias," said Peter, "why has Satan filled your heart and made you cheat the holy Spirit by appropriating some of the money paid for the land?

My wealth of visions might have puffed me up, so I was given a thorn in the flesh, an angel of Satan to rack me and keep me from being puffed up;

in which you moved as you followed the course of this world, under the sway of the prince of the air ??the spirit which is at present active within those sons of disobedience

(We did want to reach you ??I did, I Paul, more than once ??but Satan stopped us.)

Keep cool, keep awake. Your enemy the devil prowls like a roaring lion, looking out for someone to devour.

Have no fear of what you are to suffer. The devil indeed is going to put some of you in prison, that you may be tested; you will have a distressful ten days. Be faithful, though you have to die for it, and I will give you the crown of Life.