37 Bible Verses about Demonic Influence
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Then it says, 'I will go back to the house I left,' and when it comes it finds the house vacant, clean, and all in order.
No, what I imply is that anything people sacrifice is sacrificed to daemons, not to God. And I do not want you to participate in daemons!
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
So Jesus checked the daemon and it came out of him, and from that hour the boy was healed.
Now in the synagogue there was a man possessed by the spirit of an unclean daemon, who shrieked aloud,
And a woman of Canaan came out of these parts and wailed, "Have pity on me, Lord, O Son of David! My daughter is cruelly possessed by a daemon."
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
But when the Pharisees heard of it they said, "This fellow only casts out daemons by Beelzebul the prince of daemons."
so I tell you now, that no one is speaking in the Spirit of God when he cries, 'Cursed be Jesus,' and that no one can say, 'Jesus is Lord,' except in the holy Spirit.
She did this for a number of days. Then Paul turned in annoyance and told the spirit, "In the name of Jesus Christ I order you out of her!" And it left her that very moment.
As he was stepping into the boat the lunatic begged that he might accompany him;
He was casting out a dumb daemon, and when the daemon had gone out the dumb man spoke. The crowds marvelled,
When an unclean spirit leaves a man, it roams through dry places in search of refreshment and finds none.
When he reached the opposite side, the country of the Gadarenes, he was met by two demoniacs who ran out of the tombs; they were so violent that nobody could pass along the road there.
For John has come neither eating nor drinking, and men say, 'He has a devil';
"Ha! Jesus of Nazaret, what business have you with us? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, you are God's holy One!"
Now there was a man with an unclean spirit in their synagogue, who at once shrieked out,
The Jews retorted, "Are we not right in saying you are a Samaritan, you are mad?"
[vs omitted but shown in footnote] But the Pharisees said, "He casts out daemons by the prince of daemons."
Many will say to me at that Day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name? did we not cast out daemons in your name? did we not perform many miracles in your name?'
But Jesus checked it, saying, "Be quiet, come out of him." And after throwing him down before them the daemon did come out of him without doing him any harm.
Others said, "These are not a madman's words. Can a madman open the eyes of the blind?"
But the scribes who had come down from Jerusalem said, "He has Beelzebul," and "It is by the prince of daemons that he casts out daemons."
They shrieked, "Son of God, what business have you with us? Have you come here to torture us before it is time?"
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.
John said to him, "Master, we saw a man casting out daemons in your name, but we stopped him because he is not a follower of ours."
"Ah, sir," he said, "have pity on my son; he is an epileptic and he suffers cruelly, he often falls into the fire and often into the water.
Then I saw issuing from the mouth of the dragon and from the mouth of the Beast and from the mouth of the false Prophet, three foul spirits like frogs ??14 demon-spirits performing miracles, who come out to muster the kings of the whole world for battle on the great Day of almighty God.
That is not the wisdom which comes down from above, it is an earthly wisdom, sensuous, devilish;
You believe in one God? Well and good. So do the devils, and they shudder.
and when he took the bread, at that moment Satan entered him. Then Jesus told him, "Be quick with what you have to do."
The fame of him spread all through the surrounding country, and people brought him all their sick, those who suffered from all manner of disease and pain, demoniacs, epileptics, and paralytics; he healed them all.
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?
Jesus answered them, "Did I not choose you, the twelve? And yet one of you is a devil!"
But the evil spirit retorted, "Jesus I know and Paul I know, but you ??who are you?"