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Want to know what the Bible says about Demons? Here are 168 Bible verses about Demons from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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James 2:19 NIV
You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that —and shudder.
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Matthew 12:43-45 NIV
43 “When an impure spirit comes out of a person, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. 44 Then it says, ‘I will return to the house I left.’ When it arrives, it finds the house unoccupied, swept clean and put in order. 45 Then it goes and takes with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there. And the final condition of that person is worse than the first. That is how it will be with this wicked generation.”
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2 Peter 2:4 NIV
For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;
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James 4:7 NIV
Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
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Matthew 10:1 NIV
Jesus called his twelve disciples to him and gave them authority to drive out impure spirits and to heal every disease and sickness.
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1 Peter 5:8 NIV
Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
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Luke 8:2 NIV
and also some women who had been cured of evil spirits and diseases: Mary (called Magdalene) from whom seven demons had come out;
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Jude 1:6 NIV
And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their proper dwelling—these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day.
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1 Timothy 4:1 NIV
The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons.
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Mark 3:11 NIV
Whenever the impure spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, “You are the Son of God.”
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Matthew 12:22 NIV
Then they brought him a demon-possessed man who was blind and mute, and Jesus healed him, so that he could both talk and see.
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Ephesians 6:11-12 NIV
11 Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
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Matthew 8:29 NIV
“What do you want with us, Son of God?” they shouted. “Have you come here to torture us before the appointed time?”
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Leviticus 17:7 NIV
They must no longer offer any of their sacrifices to the goat idols to whom they prostitute themselves. This is to be a lasting ordinance for them and for the generations to come.’
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1 Corinthians 10:21 NIV
You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot have a part in both the Lord’s table and the table of demons.
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1 Corinthians 10:20 NIV
No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God, and I do not want you to be participants with demons.
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Psalm 106:37 NIV
They sacrificed their sons
    and their daughters to false gods.
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Luke 4:41 NIV
Moreover, demons came out of many people, shouting, “You are the Son of God!” But he rebuked them and would not allow them to speak, because they knew he was the Messiah.
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Acts 19:13-16 NIV
13 Some Jews who went around driving out evil spirits tried to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who were demon-possessed. They would say, “In the name of the Jesus whom Paul preaches, I command you to come out.” 14 Seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, were doing this. 15 One day the evil spirit answered them, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know about, but who are you?” 16 Then the man who had the evil spirit jumped on them and overpowered them all. He gave them such a beating that they ran out of the house naked and bleeding.
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