24 Bible Verses about Unclean Spirits

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Leviticus 11:44

For I am Yahweh your God, so you must consecrate yourselves and be holy because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves by any swarming creature that crawls on the ground.

Acts 10:14

“No, Lord!” Peter said. “For I have never eaten anything common and ritually unclean!”

Genesis 7:2

You are to take with you seven pairs, a male and its female, of all the clean animals, and two of the animals that are not clean, a male and its female,

Genesis 7:9

two of each, male and female, entered the ark with Noah, just as God had commanded him.

Leviticus 27:11-12

“If the vow involves any of the unclean animals that may not be brought as an offering to the Lord, the animal must be presented before the priest. The priest will set its value, whether high or low; the price will be set as the priest makes the assessment for you.

Leviticus 27:27

If it is one of the unclean livestock, it must be ransomed according to your assessment by adding a fifth of its value to it. If it is not redeemed, it can be sold according to your assessment.

Acts 10:14-15

“No, Lord!” Peter said. “For I have never eaten anything common and ritually unclean!” Again, a second time, a voice said to him, “What God has made clean, you must not call common.”

Acts 11:8-9

“‘No, Lord!’ I said. ‘For nothing common or ritually unclean has ever entered my mouth!’ But a voice answered from heaven a second time, ‘What God has made clean, you must not call common.’

Leviticus 7:19

“Meat that touches anything unclean must not be eaten; it is to be burned up. Everyone who is clean may eat any other meat.

Isaiah 65:4

sitting among the graves,
spending nights in secret places,
eating the meat of pigs,
and putting polluted broth in their bowls.

2 Peter 2:22

It has happened to them according to the true proverb: A dog returns to its own vomit, and, “a sow, after washing itself, wallows in the mud.”

Malachi 1:7

“By presenting defiled food on My altar.”

You ask: “How have we defiled You?”

When you say: “The Lord’s table is contemptible.”

Revelation 18:2

He cried in a mighty voice:

It has fallen,
Babylon the Great has fallen!
She has become a dwelling for demons,
a haunt for every unclean spirit,
a haunt for every unclean bird,
and a haunt for every unclean and despicable beast.

Leviticus 11:27

All the four-footed animals that walk on their paws are unclean for you. Whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until evening,

Leviticus 11:42

Do not eat any of the creatures that swarm on the earth, anything that moves on its belly or walks on all fours or on many feet, for they are detestable.

Leviticus 11:10

But these are to be detestable to you: everything in the seas or streams that does not have fins and scales among all the swarming things and other living creatures in the water.

Leviticus 11:12

Everything in the water that does not have fins and scales will be detestable to you.

Deuteronomy 14:10

but you may not eat anything that does not have fins and scales—it is unclean for you.

Leviticus 11:4

But among the ones that chew the cud or have divided hooves you are not to eat these:

the camel, though it chews the cud,
does not have divided hooves—it is unclean for you;

Deuteronomy 14:7

But among the ones that chew the cud or have divided hooves, you are not to eat these:

the camel, the hare, and the hyrax,
though they chew the cud, they do not have hooves—
they are unclean for you;

Leviticus 11:5

the hyrax, though it chews the cud,
does not have hooves—it is unclean for you;

Leviticus 11:6

the hare, though it chews the cud,
does not have hooves—it is unclean for you;

Leviticus 11:7

the pig, though it has divided hooves,
does not chew the cud—it is unclean for you.

Deuteronomy 14:8

and the pig, though it has hooves, it does not chew the cud—
it is unclean for you.

You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses.

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Names » Of satan » Unclean spirits

Matthew 12:43

“When an unclean spirit comes out of a man, it roams through waterless places looking for rest but doesn’t find any.

Uncleanness » Unclean spirits

Luke 4:31-36

Then He went down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, and was teaching them on the Sabbath. They were astonished at His teaching because His message had authority. In the synagogue there was a man with an unclean demonic spirit who cried out with a loud voice, read more.
"Leave us alone! What do You have to do with us, Jesus-Nazarene? Have You come to destroy us? I know who You are-the Holy One of God!" But Jesus rebuked him and said, "Be quiet and come out of him!" And throwing him down before them, the demon came out of him without hurting him at all. They were all struck with amazement and kept saying to one another, "What is this message? For He commands the unclean spirits with authority and power, and they come out!"

Mark 3:7-11

Jesus departed with His disciples to the sea, and a great multitude followed from Galilee, Judea, Jerusalem, Idumea, beyond the Jordan, and around Tyre and Sidon. The great multitude came to Him because they heard about everything He was doing. Then He told His disciples to have a small boat ready for Him, so the crowd would not crush Him. read more.
Since He had healed many, all who had diseases were pressing toward Him to touch Him. Whenever the unclean spirits saw Him, those possessed fell down before Him and cried out, "You are the Son of God!"

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