Matthew 12:44

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.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

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

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

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.”

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.

Some of you were such, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father—

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

Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

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.

Having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

You also once walked in those, when you lived in them;

But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

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.

Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went away to the chief priests, that he might deliver him to them.

Satan entered into Judas, who was also called Iscariot, who was counted with the twelve.

At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

Jesus answered them, “Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?”

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

For some thought, because Judas had the money box, that Jesus said to him, “Buy what things we need for the feast,” or that he should give something to the poor.

Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

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.

Therefore she said to Abraham, “Cast out this servant and her son! For the son of this servant will not be heir with my son, Isaac.”

you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams; for Yahweh your God is testing you, to know whether you love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

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.

Therefore I will give him a portion with the great. He will divide the plunder with the strong; because he poured out his soul to death and was counted with the transgressors; yet he bore the sins of many and made intercession for the transgressors.

Simon the Zealot; and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.

“He who is not with me is against me, and he who doesn’t gather with me, scatters.

But no one can enter into the house of the strong man to plunder unless he first binds the strong man; then he will plunder his house.

“When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, his goods are safe.

He said to the disciples, “It is impossible that no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they come!

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

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

If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

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.”

For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

Let’s therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.

He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed: that he might destroy the works of the devil.

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.

The seventh poured out his bowl into the air. A loud voice came out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, “It is done!”

certain wicked fellows have gone out from among you and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, “Let’s go and serve other gods,” which you have not known,

Shall the plunder be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captives be delivered?

“Woe to the world because of occasions of stumbling! For it must be that the occasions come, but woe to that person through whom the occasion comes!

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

I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me and loved them, even as you loved me.

But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back part of the price of the land?

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

Avoid a factious man after a first and second warning,

But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

They have over them as king the angel of the abyss. His name in Hebrew is “Abaddon”, but in Greek, he has the name “Apollyon”.

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 have prepared their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait. Their baker sleeps all the night. In the morning it burns as a flaming fire.

Or how can one enter into the house of the strong man, and plunder his goods, unless he first bind the strong man? Then he will plunder his house.

Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, used to steal what was put into it.

During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him,

After the piece of bread, then Satan entered into him. Then Jesus said to him, “What you do, do quickly.”

For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.

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.

They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.

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.