Quotes About Spiritual warfare

For Jesus had already declared, “Come out of this man, you unclean spirit!”

So the demons begged Jesus, “Send us to the pigs, so that we may enter them.”

Those who had seen it described what had happened to the demon-possessed man and also to the pigs.

But Jesus, turning and looking at His disciples, rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind Me, Satan! For you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men.”

Jesus answered, “This kind cannot come out, except by prayer.”

Speaking by the Holy Spirit, David himself declared: ëThe Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand until I put Your enemies under Your feet.”í

Jesus asked the crowd, “Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest Me as you would an outlaw?

The devil said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread.”

Then the devil led Him to Jerusalem and set Him on the pinnacle of the temple. “If You are the Son of God,” he said, “throw Yourself down from here.

When the devil had finished every temptation, he left Him until an opportune time.

In the synagogue there was a man possessed by the spirit of an unclean demon. He cried out in a loud voice,

“Ha! What do You want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have You come to destroy us? I know who You are—the Holy One of God!”

But Jesus rebuked the demon. “Be silent!” He said. “Come out of him!” At this, the demon threw the man down before them all and came out without harming him.

as well as some women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out,

The seeds along the path are those who hear, but the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved.

When the man saw Jesus, he cried out and fell down before Him, shouting in a loud voice, “What do You want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg You not to torture me!”

For Jesus had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. Many times it had seized him, and though he was bound with chains and shackles, he had broken the chains and been driven by the demon into solitary places.

“What is your name?” Jesus asked. “Legion,” he replied, because many demons had gone into him.

And the demons kept begging Jesus not to order them to go into the Abyss.

There on the hillside a large herd of pigs was feeding. So the demons begged Jesus to let them enter the pigs, and He gave them permission.

Then the demons came out of the man and went into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and was drowned.

Even while the boy was approaching, the demon slammed him to the ground in a convulsion. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, healed the boy, and gave him back to his father.

When the disciples James and John saw this, they asked, “Lord, do You want us to call down fire from heaven to consume them?”

So He told them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.