Matthew 12:45

who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love,

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.

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

For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,

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.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

far above all rule, authority, power, dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come.

to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places,

But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart, and didn’t listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.

She said, “No one, Lord.” Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more.”

But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, “The dog turns to his own vomit again,” and “the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire.”

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

Now when the synagogue broke up, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas; who, speaking to them, urged them to continue in the grace of God.

You shall not make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son.

As a dog that returns to his vomit, so is a fool who repeats his folly.

The people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from their greatest even to their least.

The Queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, someone greater than Solomon is here.

Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter into God’s Kingdom.”

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

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

When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, and didn’t know that it was Jesus.

They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.

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?

But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their borders.

and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame.

But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings;

Angels who didn’t keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

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.

In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.”

Yahweh said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.”

“Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, everyone according to his ways,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Return, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity will not be your ruin.

“You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men.

“Don’t give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

But the Pharisees said, “By the prince of the demons, he casts out demons.”

It is enough for the disciple that he be like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household!

But I tell you that one greater than the temple is here.

Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven men.

Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.

“Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.’

Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.

Or do you think that I couldn’t ask my Father, and he would even now send me more than twelve legions of angels?

Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.

Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven you.”

The scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, “He has Beelzebul,” and, “By the prince of the demons he casts out the demons.”

They came to Jesus, and saw him who had been possessed by demons sitting, clothed, and in his right mind, even him who had the legion; and they were afraid.

and certain women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary who was called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out;

“Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in and will not be able.

When I was with you in the temple daily, you didn’t stretch out your hands against me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness.”

that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

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

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

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.

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

Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went early, while it was still dark, to the tomb, and saw the stone taken away from the tomb.

Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, the parts of Libya around Cyrene, visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes,

But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Beroea also, they came there likewise, agitating the multitudes.

What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood can’t inherit God’s Kingdom; neither does the perishable inherit imperishable.

I just want to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

Also, if anyone competes in athletics, he isn’t crowned unless he has competed by the rules.

By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin.

and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.

For all tables are completely full of filthy vomit and filthiness.

But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days; but, behold, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me because I remained there with the kings of Persia.

He asked him, “What is your name?” He said to him, “My name is Legion, for we are many.”

They went out and preached that people should repent.

Then he goes, and takes seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first.”

I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.

One of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, glorifying God with a loud voice.

Wake up righteously, and don’t sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

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—

They zealously seek you in no good way. No, they desire to alienate you, that you may seek them.

and they may recover themselves out of the devil’s snare, having been taken captive by him to his will.

For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,

The priest shall examine it. Behold, if its appearance is deeper than the skin, and its hair has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy. It has broken out in the boil.

“But if you do at all go back, and hold fast to the remnant of these nations, even these who remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you;

But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, “This man does not cast out demons, except by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.”

The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, someone greater than Jonah is here.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of Gehenna as yourselves.

You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel!

Most certainly I tell you, this generation will not pass away, until all these things are accomplished.

He said to them, “This kind can come out by nothing, except by prayer and fasting.”

What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.

Now when he had risen early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons.

Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here.”

Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, “Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you.”

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

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.

forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.

But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.

Command therefore that the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest perhaps his disciples come at night and steal him away, and tell the people, ‘He is risen from the dead;’ and the last deception will be worse than the first.”