53 Bible Verses about Spirits

God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship him in spirit and in sincerity."

John to the seven churches in Asia, blessing and peace to you from him who is and was and is coming, and from the seven spirits before his throne,

"To the angel of the church in Sardis write: " 'He who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven stars speaks thus: I know what you are doing; you are supposed to be alive, but you are dead.

Out from the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings, and peals of thunder. In front of the throne seven blazing lamps were burning; they are the seven spirits of God.

Then I saw standing in the center of the throne and of the four animals and of the elders a Lamb which seemed to have been slaughtered. He had seven horns and seven eyes; these are the seven spirits of God, which are sent on errands to all parts of the earth.

And her spirit returned and she stood up immediately, and he directed them to give her something to eat.

Then Jesus gave a loud cry, and said, "Father, I intrust my spirit to your hands!" With these words he expired.

Whatever owes its birth to the physical is physical, and whatever owes its birth to the Spirit is spiritual.

As they stoned Stephen, he prayed, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!"

Just as the body without the spirit is dead, faith is dead without good deeds.

to the solemn gathering of all God's elder sons, enrolled as citizens in heaven, to a judge who is the God of all, to the spirits of upright men now at last enjoying the fulfilment of their hopes,

Are not the angels all spirits in service, whom he sends on his errands for the good of those who are destined to possess salvation?

For the Sadducees hold that there is no resurrection and that there are no angels or spirits, while the Pharisees believe in all three.

And no wonder, for even Satan himself masquerades as a shining angel.

You must put on God's armor, so as to be able to stand up against the devil's stratagems. For we have to struggle, not with enemies of flesh and blood, but with the hierarchies, the authorities, the master-spirits of this dark world, the spirit-forces of evil on high.

Then I saw three foul spirits like frogs emerge from the mouth of the dragon and from the mouth of the animal and from the mouth of the false prophet. They are demon spirits that perform wonders, and they go out to the kings all over the world to muster them for battle on the great Day of God Almighty.

And those who were troubled with foul spirits were cured.

Just then he cured many of diseases and ailments and evil spirits, and he gave sight to many who were blind.

In it Enoch went and preached even to those spirits that were in prison,

He cried out with a mighty voice, "She is fallen! Mighty Babylon is fallen! She has become the haunt of demons, and a dungeon for every foul spirit and every unclean and loathsome bird,

Be calm and watchful. Your opponent the devil is prowling about like a roaring lion, wanting to devour you. Resist him and be strong in the faith, for you know that your brotherhood all over the world is having the same experience of suffering.

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

And he remained in the desert for forty days, and Satan tried to tempt him there; and he was among the wild animals; but the angels waited on him.

for forty days by the Spirit, and was tempted by the devil. In all those days he ate nothing, and when they were over he was famished.

Therefore, submit to God. Resist the devil and he will fly from you. Approach God, and he will approach you. Wash your hands, you sinners! Make your hearts pure, you doubters!

One of the crowd answered, "Master, I brought my son to you, for he is possessed by a dumb spirit, and wherever it seizes him it convulses him, and he foams at the mouth and grinds his teeth; and he is wasting away. I told your disciples to drive it out, and they could not do it."

and all at once a spirit seizes him, and he suddenly cries out, and it convulses him until he foams at the mouth, and it leaves him, after a struggle, badly bruised.

When he reached the other side, in the region of Gadara, two men possessed by demons came out of the tombs and confronted him; they were so extremely violent that nobody could go along that road.

And when he landed, he met a man possessed by demons, who was coming out of the town. He had worn no clothing for a long time, and did not live in a house but in the tombs.

And a Canaanite woman of that district came out and screamed, "Son of David, take pity on me, sir! My daughter is dreadfully possessed by a demon!"

but a woman whose little daughter was possessed by a foul spirit immediately heard about him and came and threw herself at his feet.

Just then there was in their synagogue a man under the control of a foul spirit, and he cried out,

There was a man in the synagogue who was possessed by the spirit of a foul demon and he cried out loudly,

In the evening they brought to him many who were possessed by demons, and he drove the spirits out with a word, and cured all who were sick,

And he cured many who were sick with various diseases, and drove out many demons, and he would not let the demons speak, because they knew that he was Christ.

As the sun went down all who had friends sick with various diseases brought them to him, and he laid his hands on every one of them and cured them.

But if I am driving the demons out by the aid of God's Spirit, then the Kingdom of God has overtaken you.

But if it is with the finger of God that I am driving the demons out, then the Kingdom of God has overtaken you.

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

Then Jesus, seeing that a crowd was rapidly gathering, reproved the foul spirit and said to it, "You deaf and dumb spirit, get out of him, I charge you, and never enter him again!" And it gave a cry and convulsed him terribly, and went out of him. And the boy was like a corpse, so that most of them said that he was dead.

Even while the boy was coming, the demon threw him down and convulsed him, but Jesus reproved the foul spirit and cured the boy and gave him back to his father.

Even from the towns around Jerusalem crowds would come in bringing sick people and those who were troubled with foul spirits, and they were all cured.

for with loud cries foul spirits came out of many who had been possessed by them, and many paralytics and lame people were cured.

Dear friends, do not believe every inspired utterance, but test the utterances to see whether they come from God, for many false prophets have come out into the world.

another, the working of wonders, another, inspiration in preaching, another, the power of distinguishing the true Spirit from false ones, another, various ecstatic utterances, and another, the ability to explain them.

You can tell the Spirit of God in this way: all inspiration that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in human form comes from God, and any inspired utterance that does not acknowledge Jesus does not come from God; it is the inspiration of the Antichrist. You have heard that it was coming, and here it is already in the world. You are children of God, dear children, and you have been victorious over these men, for he who is in our hearts is greater than he who is in the world.read more.
They are children of the world; that is why they speak as the world directs, and the world listens to them. We are God's children. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not a child of God will not listen to us. In this way we can tell what is inspired by truth from what is inspired by error.

and in union with him you too are filled with it. He is the head of all your principalities and dominions.