Be sober and watchful, because your adversary the devil walks around as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.Resist him firmly in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world.
Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is the good and acceptable and complete will of God.
You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
Behold, I give you authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. And nothing shall by any means hurt you.
For the Lord loves justice, and does not forsake His saints; they are preserved forever, but the descendants of the wicked shall be cut off.
No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment, you shall condemn. This is the inheritance of the servants of the Lord, and their vindication is from Me, says the Lord.
The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
The thief does not come, except to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one.
Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, I will help you, yes, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.
He called His twelve disciples to Him and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease.
They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they loved not their lives unto the death.
The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of distress; and He knows those who take refuge in Him.
We know that whoever is born of God does not keep on sinning. But whoever has been born of God guards himself, and the wicked one cannot touch him.
For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, He has also rejected you from being king.”
Have not I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
Be strong and of a good courage. Fear not, nor be afraid of them, for the Lord your God, it is He who goes with you. He will not fail you, nor forsake you.”
When you pass through waters, I will be with you. And through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, nor shall the flame kindle on you.
The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.no evil will befall you, nor will any plague come near your tent;for He will give His angels charge over you to guard you in all your ways.They will bear you up in their hands, lest you strike your foot against a stone.You will tread upon the lion and the adder; the young lion and the serpent will you trample underfoot.“Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore will I deliver him; I will set him on high, because he has known My name.He will call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him and honor him.With long life will I satisfy him and show him My salvation.”I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”
And having disarmed authorities and powers, He made a show of them openly, triumphing over them by the cross.
but those who wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles, they shall run and not be weary, and they shall walk and not faint.
“Truly I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.
But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God. I do not want you to have fellowship with demons.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
They caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire, used divination and omens, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord to anger Him.
For the word of God is alive, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, of joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intents of the heart.
You must burn the graven images of their gods with fire. You must not desire the silver or gold that is on them nor take any of it, lest you be snared by them, for it is an abomination to the Lord your God.
He has delivered us from the power of darkness and has transferred us into the kingdom of His dear Son,
They sacrificed to demons, not to God, to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that recently came along, whom your fathers did not fear.
You shall not eat anything with the blood in it, nor shall you practice divination or fortune-telling.
Now the works of the flesh are revealed, which are these: adultery, sexual immorality, impurity, lewdness,Indeed I, Paul, say to you that if you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing.idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousy, rage, selfishness, dissensions, heresies,envy, murders, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you, as I previously warned you, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Outside are dogs and sorcerers and the sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters and everyone who loves and practices a lie.
Stand fast now with your enchantments, and with the multitude of your sorceries in which you have labored from your youth. Perhaps you shall be able to profit, perhaps you may cause trembling.You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels; let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators stand up and save you from these things that shall come upon you.Behold, they shall be as stubble, the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame; it shall not be coal to be warmed by nor a fire to sit before.
Moreover, Josiah disposed of the mediums, the soothsayers, the teraphim, the idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, so that he established the words of the law that were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the Lord.
“I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have distress. But be of good cheer. I have overcome the world.”
There must not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or who uses divination, or uses witchcraft, or an interpreter of omens, or a sorcerer,or one who casts spells, or a spiritualist, or an occultist, or a necromancer.For all that do these things are an abomination to the Lord, and because of these abominations the Lord your God will drive them out from before you.
Do not turn to spirits through mediums or necromancers. Do not seek after them to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.
The person who turns to spirits through mediums and necromancers in order to whore after them, I will even set My face against that person and will cut him off from among his people.
He even made his sons pass through the fire in the Valley of Ben-hinnom; and he had conjurers, and practitioners of divination and sorcery, and necromancers, and mediums. So he did a great amount of evil in the eyes of the Lord, so that God was provoked.
Now the works of the flesh are revealed, which are these: adultery, sexual immorality, impurity, lewdness,Indeed I, Paul, say to you that if you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing.idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousy, rage, selfishness, dissensions, heresies,
But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the abominable, the murderers, the sexually immoral, the sorcerers, the idolaters, and all liars shall have their portion in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone. This is the second death.”
When they say to you, “Seek after the mediums and the wizards, who whisper and mutter,” should not a people seek after their God? Should they consult the dead for the living?
Many who practiced magic brought their books together and burned them before everyone. They calculated their value, which equaled fifty thousand drachmas.
And do not have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness; instead, expose them.
For our fight is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, and against spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
then I will cut off sorceries from your hand, and you will no longer have fortune-tellers.
And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not proper.They were filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and craftiness. They are gossips,concerning His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, who was born of the seed of David according to the fleshslanderers, God-haters, insolent, proud, boastful, inventors of evil things, and disobedient toward parents,without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, calloused, and unmerciful,who know the righteous requirement of God, that those who commit such things are worthy of death. They not only do them, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.
I will set no wicked thing before my eyes. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.
When they say to you, “Seek after the mediums and the wizards, who whisper and mutter,” should not a people seek after their God? Should they consult the dead for the living?I will take to Myself faithful witnesses for testimony, Uriah the priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberekiah.To the law and to the testimony; if they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table and of the table of demons.
O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth? Before your eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified.
If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder,You shall stone him with stones so that he dies because he has sought to entice you away from the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.All Israel shall hear and fear and no more do any such wickedness as this among you.If you hear it said in one of your cities, in which the Lord your God has given you to dwell, saying,“Certain men, the sons of wickedness, are gone out from among you and have seduced the inhabitants of their city, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ ” which you have not known,then you shall inquire, search out, and ask diligently. And behold, if it be true and certain that such an abomination has been among you,you shall surely put the inhabitants of that city to the sword, utterly destroying it, all that is in it and its livestock—with the edge of the sword.You must gather all the spoils of it into the middle of the street and burn the city with fire along with all the spoils within it for the Lord your God, and it will be a heap forever. It must not be rebuilt.Nothing of the cursed thing there must cling to your hand, so that the Lord may turn from the fierceness of His anger and show you mercy, have compassion on you, and multiply you, just as He swore to your fathers,if you listen to the voice of the Lord your God, to keep all His commandments which I command you today, and do that which is right in the eyes of the Lord your God.and the sign or the wonder comes to pass concerning that which he spoke to you, saying, “Let us go after other gods,” which you have not known, “and let us serve them,”you must not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams, for the Lord your God is testing you, to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
and say, Thus says the Lord God: Woe to the women who sew magic bands on all wrists and make veils on the heads of persons of every stature to hunt souls! Will you hunt the souls of My people but save the souls alive of others for yourselves?
He made his son pass through the fire, was conjuring and seeking omens, and dealt with mediums and soothsayers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking Him to anger.
You who love the Lord, hate evil! He preserves the souls of His saints; He delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
“He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters abroad.
Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with unrighteousness? What communion has light with darkness?What agreement has Christ with Belial? Or what part has he who believes with an unbeliever?What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will live in them and walk in them. I will be their God, and they shall be My people.”Therefore, “Come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you.”
But the firm foundation of God stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are His,” and, “Let everyone who calls on the name of Christ depart from iniquity.”
Beware lest anyone captivate you through philosophy and vain deceit, in the tradition of men and the elementary principles of the world, and not after Christ.
Be sober and watchful, because your adversary the devil walks around as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
Then Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding.In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.
no evil will befall you, nor will any plague come near your tent;for He will give His angels charge over you to guard you in all your ways.