1 John 3:8

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

The devil has been sinning since the beginning. Anyone who continues to sin belongs to the devil. The Son of God came for this: to destroy the devil’s work.

Cross References

Hebrews 2:14

These children are people with physical bodies. So Jesus himself became like them and had the same experiences they have. Jesus did this so that, by dying, he could destroy the one who has the power of death—the devil.

John 8:44

Your father is the devil. You belong to him. You want to do what he wants. He was a murderer from the beginning. He was always against the truth. There is no truth in him. He is like the lies he tells. Yes, the devil is a liar. He is the father of lies.

Colossians 2:15

He defeated the rulers and powers of the spiritual world. With the cross he won the victory over them and led them away, as defeated and powerless prisoners for the whole world to see.

Romans 16:20

The God who brings peace will soon defeat Satan and give you power over him. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.

John 16:11

And he will show them how wrong their judgment is, because their leader has already been condemned.

John 12:31

Now is the time for the world to be judged. Now the ruler of this world will be thrown out.

2 Peter 2:4

When angels sinned, God did not let them go free without punishment. He sent them to hell. He put those angels in caves of darkness, where they are being held until the time when God will judge them.

Mark 1:24

“Jesus of Nazareth! What do you want with us? Did you come to destroy us? I know who you are—God’s Holy One!”

Ephesians 2:2

Yes, in the past your lives were full of those sins. You lived the way the world lives, following the ruler of the evil powers that are above the earth. That same spirit is now working in those who refuse to obey God.

Isaiah 27:1

At that time the Lord will judge Leviathan, the crooked snake. He will use his great sword, his hard and powerful sword, to punish Leviathan, that twisting, turning snake. He will kill the monster of the sea.

Luke 10:18

Jesus said to them, “I saw Satan falling like lightning from the sky.

1 John 3:10

So we can see who God’s children are and who the devil’s children are. These are the ones who are not God’s children: those who don’t do what is right and those who do not love their brothers and sisters in God’s family.

Matthew 13:38

The field is the world. The good seed are the people in God’s kingdom. The weeds are the people who belong to the Evil One.

Revelation 20:10

And he (the one who tricked these people) was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur with the beast and the false prophet. There they would be tortured day and night forever and ever.

1 John 5:19

We know that we belong to God, but the Evil One controls the whole world.

1 John 3:5

You know that Christ came to take away people’s sins. There is no sin in Christ.

Revelation 20:15

And anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.

Jude 1:6

And remember the angels who lost their authority to rule. They left their proper home. So the Lord has kept them in darkness, bound with everlasting chains, to be judged on the great day.

Genesis 3:15

I will make you and the woman enemies to each other. Your children and her children will be enemies. You will bite her child’s foot, but he will crush your head.”

Matthew 4:3

The devil came to tempt him and said, “If you are the Son of God, tell these rocks to become bread.”

Matthew 12:28

But I use the power of God’s Spirit to force out demons, and this shows that God’s kingdom has come to you.

1 Timothy 3:16

Without a doubt, the secret of our life of worship is great: Christ was shown to us in human form; the Spirit proved that he was right; he was seen by angels. The message about him was told to the nations; people in the world believed in him; he was taken up to heaven in glory.

Hebrews 9:26

If Christ had offered himself many times, he would have needed to suffer many times since the time the world was made. But he came to offer himself only once. And that once is enough for all time. He came at a time when the world is nearing an end. He came to take away all sin by offering himself as a sacrifice.

1 John 1:2

Yes, the one who is life was shown to us. We saw him, and so we can tell others about him. We now tell you about him. He is the eternal life that was with God the Father and was shown to us.

Numbers 21:9

So Moses made a bronze snake and put it on a pole. Then when a snake bit anyone, that person looked at the bronze snake on the pole and lived.