47 Bible Verses about The Devil
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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.
Here is how the children of God and the children of the devil are recognized; anyone who does not practise righteousness does not belong to God, and neither does he who has no love for his brother.
We know that we belong to God, and that the whole world lies in the power 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.
I have consigned that individual to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, in order that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord Jesus.
Once more the devil conveyed him to an exceedingly high mountain and showed him all the realms of the world and their grandeur;
So the tempter came up and said to him, "If you are God's son, tell these stones to become loaves."
they may come to their senses again and escape the snare of the devil, as they are brought back to life by God to do his will.
You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and also the cup of daemons; you cannot partake of the table of the Lord and also of the table of daemons.
(We did want to reach you ??I did, I Paul, more than once ??but Satan stopped us.)
Then Jesus told him, "Begone, Satan! it is written, You must worship the Lord your God, and serve him alone."
A number of them said, "He is mad. Why listen to him?"
The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet! The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
we are not to be like Cain, who belonged to the evil One and slew his brother. And why did he slay him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's just.
he must not be a new convert, in case he gets conceited and incurs the doom passed on the devil;
I will no longer talk much with you, for the Prince of this world is coming. He has no hold on me;
and if Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself; how then can his realm stand?
put on God's armour so as to be able to stand against the stratagems of the devil.
and the devil said to him, "I will give you all their power and grandeur, for it has been made over to me and I can give it to anyone I choose.
So Jesus checked the daemon and it came out of him, and from that hour the boy was healed.
But he turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, you Satan! You are a hindrance to me! Your outlook is not God's but man's."
Then Jesus was led into the desert by the Spirit to be tempted by the devil.
And the man in whom the evil spirit resided leapt at them, overpowered them all, and belaboured them, till they rushed out of the house stripped and wounded.
Well then, submit yourselves to God; resist the devil, and he will fly from you:
and their seducer, the devil, was flung into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the Beast and the false Prophet also lie, to be tortured day and night for ever and ever.
but some of them said, "It is by Beelzebul the prince of daemons that he casts out daemons."
so the spirits begged him saying, "Send us into the swine, that we may enter them,"
Then the devil conveyed him to the holy city and, placing him on the pinnacle of the temple,
so at supper, knowing that though the devil had suggested to Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him,
Then he brought him to Jerusalem and placing him on the pinnacle of the temple said to him, "If you are God's son, throw yourself down from this;
The seventy came back with joy. "Lord," they said, "the very daemons obey us in your name."
That is not the wisdom which comes down from above, it is an earthly wisdom, sensuous, devilish;
I know where you dwell, where Satan sits enthroned, and yet you adhere to my Name, you have not renounced your faith in me even during the days when my witness, my faithful Antipas, was martyred in your midst ??where Satan dwells.
so the daemons begged him saying, "If you are going to cast us out, send us into that drove of swine."
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
and the daemons came out of the man and went into the swine; the drove rushed down the steep slope into the lake and were suffocated.
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Names » Of satan » The Devil
Pride » Characteristic of » The Devil
he must not be a new convert, in case he gets conceited and incurs the doom passed on the devil;
Salvation » Is deliverance from » The Devil
when he cut away the angelic Rulers and Powers from us, exposing them to all the world and triumphing over them in the cross.
Since the children then share blood and flesh, he himself participated in their nature, so that by dying he might crush him who wields the power of death (that is to say, the devil) and release from thraldom those who lay under a life-long fear of death.
Satan » The Devil
he gripped the dragon, that old serpent (who is the devil and Satan), and bound him for a thousand years,
Then Jesus was led into the desert by the Spirit to be tempted by the devil.
and for forty days he was led by the Spirit in the desert, while the devil tempted him. During these days he ate nothing, and when they were over he felt hungry.
and the devil said to him, "I will give you all their power and grandeur, for it has been made over to me and I can give it to anyone I choose.
Slander » Characteristic of » The Devil
Then I heard a loud voice in heaven saying, "Now it has come, the salvation and power, the reign of our God and the authority of his Christ! ??for the Accuser of our brothers is thrown down, who accused them before God day and night.
The Devil » Character of » Fierce and cruel
Keep cool, keep awake. Your enemy the devil prowls like a roaring lion, looking out for someone to devour.
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.
(For he had charged the unclean spirit to come out of the man. Many a time when it had seized hold of him, he had been fastened secure in fetters and chains, but he would snap his bonds and be driven by the daemon into the desert.)
and a spirit gets hold of him till he suddenly shrieks; it convulses him till he foams; indeed it will hardly leave off tearing him to pieces.
The Devil » The wicked » Are the children of
Here is how the children of God and the children of the devil are recognized; anyone who does not practise righteousness does not belong to God, and neither does he who has no love for his brother.
the field is the world; the good seed means the sons of the Realm; the weeds are the sons of the evil one;
and said, "You son of the devil, you enemy of all good, full of all craft and all cunning, will you never stop diverting the straight paths of the Lord?
The Devil » Saints » Tempted by
Well then, unable to bear it any longer, I sent to find out about your faith, in case the Tempter had tempted you and our labour had been thrown away.
The Devil » Works lying wonders
The Devil » Character of » Deceitful
put on God's armour so as to be able to stand against the stratagems of the devil.
The Devil » Opposes God's work
(We did want to reach you ??I did, I Paul, more than once ??but Satan stopped us.)
The Devil » The wicked » Possessed by
"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?
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
The Devil » The apostacy is of
But in later days, the Spirit distinctly declares, certain people will rebel against the faith; they will listen to spirits of error and to the doctrines that daemons teach
The Devil » Saints » Overcome
fathers, I am writing to you, because you know him who is from the very beginning: young men, I am writing to you, because you have conquered the evil One. Children, I have written to you, because you know the Father:
Then I heard a loud voice in heaven saying, "Now it has come, the salvation and power, the reign of our God and the authority of his Christ! ??for the Accuser of our brothers is thrown down, who accused them before God day and night. But they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they had to die for it, but they did not cling to life.
The Devil » Hinders the gospel
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.'
there the god of this world has blinded the minds of unbelievers, to prevent them seeing the light thrown by the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the likeness of God.
The Devil » The author of the fall » Ge 3:1
The Devil » Character of » Subtle
but I am afraid of your thoughts getting seduced from a single devotion to Christ, just as the serpent beguiled Eve with his cunning.
The Devil » Christ triumphing over » Completed by his death
Since the children then share blood and flesh, he himself participated in their nature, so that by dying he might crush him who wields the power of death (that is to say, the devil)
when he cut away the angelic Rulers and Powers from us, exposing them to all the world and triumphing over them in the cross.
The Devil » Character of » Powerful
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
For we have to struggle, not with blood and flesh but with the angelic Rulers, the angelic Authorities, the potentates of the dark present, the spirit-forces of evil in the heavenly sphere.
The Devil » The wicked » Ensnared by
they may come to their senses again and escape the snare of the devil, as they are brought back to life by God to do his will.
also, he must have a good reputation among outsiders, in case he incurs slander and is trapped by the devil.
The Devil » Compared to » A sower of tares
He said to them, 'An enemy has done this.' The servants said to him, 'Then would you like us to go and gather them?'
but while men slept his enemy came and resowed weeds among the wheat and then went away.
The Devil » Perverts the scripture
said to him, "If you are God's son, throw yourself down; for it is written, He will give his angels charge of you; they will bear you on their hands, lest you strike your foot against a stone."
The Devil » Shall be condemned at the judgment
and their seducer, the devil, was flung into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the Beast and the false Prophet also lie, to be tortured day and night for ever and ever.
while the angels who abandoned their own domain, instead of preserving their proper rank, are reserved by him within the nether gloom, in chains eternal, for the doom of the great Day ??7 just as Sodom and Gomorra and the adjacent cities, which similarly glutted themselves with vice and sensual perversity, are exhibited as a warning of the everlasting fire they are sentenced to suffer.
The Devil » Christ triumphing over » In empowering his disciples to cast out
And summoning his twelve disciples he gave them power over unclean spirits, power to cast them out and also to heal every disease and every ailment.
And for those who believe, these miracles will follow: they will cast out daemons in my name, they will talk in foreign tongues,
The Devil » Sinned against God
he who commits sin belongs to the devil, for the devil is a sinner from the very beginning. (This is why the Son of God appeared, to destroy the deeds of the devil.)
For if God did not spare angels who had sinned, but committing them to pits of the nether gloom in Tartarus, reserved them under punishment for doom:
The Devil » Christ triumphing over » In casting out the spirits of
"Go and tell that fox," he replied, "I cast out daemons and perform cures to-day and to-morrow, and on the third day I complete my task!
But if it is by the finger of God that I cast daemons out, then the Reign of God has reached you already.
The Devil » Character of » Presumptuous
Then the devil conveyed him to the holy city and, placing him on the pinnacle of the temple, said to him, "If you are God's son, throw yourself down; for it is written, He will give his angels charge of you; they will bear you on their hands, lest you strike your foot against a stone."
The Devil » Saints » Should resist
Well then, submit yourselves to God; resist the devil, and he will fly from you:
Resist him; keep your foothold in the faith, and learn to pay the same tax of suffering as the rest of your brotherhood throughout the world.
The Devil » Cast down to hell
For if God did not spare angels who had sinned, but committing them to pits of the nether gloom in Tartarus, reserved them under punishment for doom:
while the angels who abandoned their own domain, instead of preserving their proper rank, are reserved by him within the nether gloom, in chains eternal, for the doom of the great Day ??7 just as Sodom and Gomorra and the adjacent cities, which similarly glutted themselves with vice and sensual perversity, are exhibited as a warning of the everlasting fire they are sentenced to suffer.
The Devil » Saints » Afflicted by, only as God permits
The Devil » Assumes the form of an angel of light
The Devil » Saints » Should be watchful against
The Devil » The wicked » Blinded by
there the god of this world has blinded the minds of unbelievers, to prevent them seeing the light thrown by the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the likeness of God.
The Devil » Saints » Should be armed against
put on God's armour so as to be able to stand against the stratagems of the devil. For we have to struggle, not with blood and flesh but with the angelic Rulers, the angelic Authorities, the potentates of the dark present, the spirit-forces of evil in the heavenly sphere. So take God's armour, that you may be able to make a stand upon the evil day and hold your ground by overcoming all the foe. read more.
Hold your ground, tighten the belt of truth about your loins, wear integrity as your coat of mail, and have your feet shod with the stability of the gospel of peace; above all, take faith as your shield, to enable you to quench all the fire-tipped darts flung by the evil one,
The Devil » Character of » Malignant
The Devil » The wicked » Deceived by
The Devil » The wicked » Turn aside after
As it is, some widows have already turned after Satan. ??16 Any believer, man or woman, who has widowed relatives, must give them relief; the church is not to be burdened with them; she has to relieve the widows who really need relief.
The Devil » The wicked » Troubled by
The Devil » Tempted Christ
So the tempter came up and said to him, "If you are God's son, tell these stones to become loaves." He answered, "It is written, Man is not to live on bread alone, but on every word that issues from the mouth of God." Then the devil conveyed him to the holy city and, placing him on the pinnacle of the temple, read more.
said to him, "If you are God's son, throw yourself down; for it is written, He will give his angels charge of you; they will bear you on their hands, lest you strike your foot against a stone." Jesus said to him, "It is written again, You shall not tempt the Lord your God." Once more the devil conveyed him to an exceedingly high mountain and showed him all the realms of the world and their grandeur; he said, "I will give you all that if you will fall down and worship me." Then Jesus told him, "Begone, Satan! it is written, You must worship the Lord your God, and serve him alone."
The Devil » Christ triumphing over » Illustrated
When the strong man in armour guards his homestead, his property is undisturbed; but when a stronger man attacks and conquers him, he seizes the panoply on which he relied and divides up the spoil.
The Devil » Character of » Proud
he must not be a new convert, in case he gets conceited and incurs the doom passed on the devil;
The Devil » The wicked » Punished, together with
Then he will say to those on the left, 'Begone from me, you accursed ones, to the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels!
The Devil » Everlasting fire is prepared for
Then he will say to those on the left, 'Begone from me, you accursed ones, to the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels!
The Devil » Christ triumphing over » In resisting his temptations
The Devil » Christ triumphing over » Predicted
The Devil » Compared to » Fowls
The Devil » Saints » Shall finally triumph over
The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet! The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
The Devil » Character of » Wicked
fathers, I am writing to you, because you know him who is from the very beginning: young men, I am writing to you, because you have conquered the evil One. Children, I have written to you, because you know the Father:
The Devil » Compared to » A roaring lion
Keep cool, keep awake. Your enemy the devil prowls like a roaring lion, looking out for someone to devour.
The Devil » Christ triumphing over » In destroying the works of
he who commits sin belongs to the devil, for the devil is a sinner from the very beginning. (This is why the Son of God appeared, to destroy the deeds of the devil.)
The Devil » Compared to » A wolf
The hired man, who is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep, deserts them when he sees the wolf coming; he runs away, leaving the wolf to tear and scatter them,
The Devil » Saints » Sifted by
The Devil » Cast out of heaven
The Devil » Compared to
The Devil » Character of » Cowardly
Well then, submit yourselves to God; resist the devil, and he will fly from you:
The Devil » The wicked » Do the lusts of
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.
Truth » Of God » Is denied by » The Devil
the Truth of God » Is denied by » The Devil
War » Figurative » Is against » The Devil
Keep cool, keep awake. Your enemy the devil prowls like a roaring lion, looking out for someone to devour.
Well then, submit yourselves to God; resist the devil, and he will fly from you:
So, enraged at the woman, the dragon went off to wage war on the rest of her offspring, on those who keep God's commandments and hold the testimony of Jesus.
Warfare of saints » Is against » The Devil
Keep cool, keep awake. Your enemy the devil prowls like a roaring lion, looking out for someone to devour.
Well then, submit yourselves to God; resist the devil, and he will fly from you:
So, enraged at the woman, the dragon went off to wage war on the rest of her offspring, on those who keep God's commandments and hold the testimony of Jesus.
Topics on The Devil
Children Of The Devil
Acts 13:10and said, "You son of the devil, you enemy of all good, full of all craft and all cunning, will you never stop diverting the straight paths of the Lord?
The Devil Tempting People
2 Corinthians 11:3but I am afraid of your thoughts getting seduced from a single devotion to Christ, just as the serpent beguiled Eve with his cunning.
Worshipping The Devil
Matthew 4:9he said, "I will give you all that if you will fall down and worship me."
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