Luke 8:32

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Looking at them, Jesus said, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

He answered, “Don’t be afraid; for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.”

Yahweh’s angel encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.

But we received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

He shall bring it to Aaron’s sons, the priests. He shall take his handful of its fine flour, and of its oil, with all its frankincense, and the priest shall burn its memorial on the altar, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.

Then God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech,

They were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.

“What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says Yahweh. “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed animals. I don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.

Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me. New moons, Sabbaths, and convocations: I can’t stand evil assemblies.

I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can’t stand your solemn assemblies.

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, little children, because you know the Father.

They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.

After these things I heard something like a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, “Hallelujah! Salvation, power, and glory belong to our God;

An arm of flesh is with him, but Yahweh our God is with us to help us and to fight our battles.” The people rested themselves on the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

“Those who sanctify themselves and purify themselves to go to the gardens, behind one in the middle, eating pig’s meat, abominable things, and the mouse, they shall come to an end together,” says Yahweh.

Then I said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! Behold, my soul has not been polluted; for from my youth up even until now I have not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn of animals. No abominable meat has come into my mouth!”

Yes, though you offer me your burnt offerings and meal offerings, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat animals.

It will come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Armies, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they will be remembered no more. I will also cause the prophets and the spirit of impurity to pass out of the land.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”

who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.

We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn’t listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

He seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years,

For they each cast down their rods, and they became serpents; but Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.

They chose new gods. Then war was in the gates. Was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?

Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen. Let them save you in the time of your distress!”

Now Yahweh’s Spirit departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from Yahweh troubled him.

“Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;

as I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was in my tent,

If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;

For God speaks once, yes twice, though man pays no attention.

I have spoken once, and I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further.”

He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly. He doesn’t allow their livestock to decrease.

When he is judged, let him come out guilty. Let his prayer be turned into sin.

Yahweh’s blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.

The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination— how much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind!

Guard your steps when you go to God’s house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don’t know that they do evil.

Trust in Yahweh forever; for in Yah, Yahweh, is an everlasting Rock.

Woe to Ariel! Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts come around;

I was angry because of the iniquity of his covetousness and struck him. I hid myself and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.

who sit among the graves, and spend nights in secret places; who eat pig’s meat, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;

I will destine you to the sword, and you will all bow down to the slaughter; because when I called, you didn’t answer. When I spoke, you didn’t listen; but you did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn’t delight.”

To what purpose does frankincense from Sheba come to me, and the sweet cane from a far country? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, and your sacrifices are not pleasing to me.”

“ ‘ “If the prophet is deceived and speaks a word, I, Yahweh, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand on him, and will destroy him from among my people Israel.

You, O king, are king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, the strength, and the glory.

In that day I will raise up the tent of David who is fallen, and close up its breaches, and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old;

For I,’ says Yahweh, ‘will be to her a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory in the middle of her.

and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written, ‘He will command his angels concerning you,’ and, ‘On their hands they will bear you up, so that you don’t dash your foot against a stone.’ ”

Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.’

and they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.

When he had come out of the boat, immediately a man with an unclean spirit met him out of the tombs.

He lived in the tombs. Nobody could bind him any more, not even with chains,

Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.

John answered, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven.

Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.

I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me.

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

about judgment, because the prince of this world has been judged.

him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;

For of him, and through him, and to him are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen.

are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.

The pig, because it has a split hoof, and is cloven-footed, but doesn’t chew the cud, is unclean to you.

Yahweh said to him, ‘How?’ He said, ‘I will go out and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ He said, ‘You will entice him, and will also prevail. Go out and do so.’

Haven’t you made a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your power. Only on himself don’t stretch out your hand.” So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh.

Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life.”

God has spoken once; twice I have heard this, that power belongs to God.

He who kills an ox is as he who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, as he who breaks a dog’s neck; he who offers an offering, as he who offers pig’s blood; he who burns frankincense, as he who blesses an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations:

Now there was a herd of many pigs feeding far away from them.

Now on the mountainside there was a great herd of pigs feeding.

Jesus answered, “You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin.”

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

And after the thousand years, Satan will be released from his prison,