Bible verses about "exorcism" | Moffatt

³³ Now in the synagogue there was a man possessed by the spirit of an unclean daemon, who shrieked aloud, ³⁴ "Ha! Jesus of Nazaret, what business have you with us? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, you are God's holy One!" ³⁵ But Jesus checked it, saying, "Be quiet, come out of him." And after throwing him down before them the daemon did come out of him without doing him any harm. ³⁶ Then amazement came over them all; they talked it over among themselves, saying, "What does this mean? He orders the unclean spirits with authority and power, and they come out!"

¹⁷ A man from the crowd answered him, "Teacher, I brought my son to you; he has a dumb spirit, ¹⁸ and whenever it seizes him it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth and grinds his teeth. He is wasting away with it; so I told your disciples to cast it out, but they could not." ¹⁹ He answered them, "O faithless generation, how long must I still be with you? how long have I to bear with you? Bring him to me." ²⁰ So they brought the boy to him, and when the spirit saw Jesus it at once convulsed the boy; he fell on the ground and rolled about, foaming at the mouth. ²¹ Jesus asked his father, "How long has he been like this?" "From childhood," he said; ²² "it has thrown him into fire and water many a time, to destroy him. If you can do anything, do help us, do have pity on us." ²³ Jesus said to him, "'If you can'! Anything can be done for one who believes." ²⁴ At once the father of the boy cried out, "I do believe; help my unbelief." ²⁵ Now as Jesus saw that a crowd was rapidly gathering, he checked the unclean spirit. "Deaf and dumb spirit," he said, "leave him, I command you, and never enter him again." ²⁶ And it did come out, after shrieking aloud and convulsing him violently. The child turned like a corpse, so that most people said, "he is dead"; ²⁷ but, taking his hand, Jesus raised him and he got up. ²⁸ When he went indoors his disciples asked him in private, "Why could we not cast it out?" ²⁹ He said to them, "Nothing can make this kind come out but prayer and fasting."

⁸ (For he had said, "Come out of the man, you unclean spirit.")

⁴² Before the boy could reach Jesus, the daemon dashed him down and convulsed him, but Jesus checked the unclean spirit, cured the boy, and handed him back to his father.

¹⁷ The seventy came back with joy. "Lord," they said, "the very daemons obey us in your name."

⁴⁹ John said to him, "Master, we saw a man casting out daemons in your name, but we stopped him because he is not a follower of ours." ⁵⁰ Jesus said to him, "Do not stop him; he who is not against you is for you."

²⁰ But if it is by the finger of God that I cast daemons out, then the Reign of God has reached you already.

¹⁸ She did this for a number of days. Then Paul turned in annoyance and told the spirit, "In the name of Jesus Christ I order you out of her!" And it left her that very moment.

¹³ Some strolling Jewish exorcists also undertook to pronounce the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, "I adjure you by the Jesus whom Paul preaches!" ¹⁴ The seven sons of Sceuas, a Jewish high priest, used to do this. ¹⁵ But the evil spirit retorted, "Jesus I know and Paul I know, but you — who are you?" ¹⁶ And the man in whom the evil spirit resided leapt at them, overpowered them all, and belaboured them, till they rushed out of the house stripped and wounded.

¹² people even carried away towels or aprons he had used, and at their touch sick folk were freed from their diseases and evil spirits came out of them.

¹³ So take God's armour, that you may be able to make a stand upon the evil day and hold your ground by overcoming all the foe.

⁷ Well then, submit yourselves to God; resist the devil, and he will fly from you:

¹⁸ Christ himself died for sins, once for all, a just man for unjust men, that he might bring us near to God; in the flesh he was put to death but he came to life in the Spirit. ¹⁹ (It was in the Spirit that Enoch also went and preached to the imprisoned spirits ²⁰ who had disobeyed at the time when God's patience held out during the construction of the ark in the days of Noah — the ark by which only a few souls, eight in all, were brought safely through the water.) ²¹ Baptism, the counterpart of that, saves you to-day (not the mere washing of dirt from the flesh but the prayer for a clean conscience before God) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ ²² who is at God's right hand — for he went to heaven after angels, authorities, and powers celestial had been made subject to him.)

¹³ And Jesus gave them leave. Then out came the unclean spirits and entered the swine, and the drove rushed down the steep slope into the sea (there were about two thousand of them) and in the sea they were drowned.

³⁸ John said to him, "Teacher, we saw a man casting out daemons in your name; but he does not follow us, and so we stopped him."

¹⁵ But the evil spirit retorted, "Jesus I know and Paul I know, but you — who are you?"

¹¹ God also worked no ordinary miracles by means of Paul; ¹² people even carried away towels or aprons he had used, and at their touch sick folk were freed from their diseases and evil spirits came out of them.

¹⁹ I have indeed given you the power of treading on serpents and scorpions and of trampling down all the power of the Enemy; nothing shall injure you.

¹⁰ To conclude. Be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might; ¹¹ put on God's armour so as to be able to stand against the stratagems of the devil. ¹² For we have to struggle, not with blood and flesh but with the angelic Rulers, the angelic Authorities, the potentates of the dark present, the spirit-forces of evil in the heavenly sphere. ¹³ So take God's armour, that you may be able to make a stand upon the evil day and hold your ground by overcoming all the foe. ¹⁴ Hold your ground, tighten the belt of truth about your loins, wear integrity as your coat of mail, ¹⁵ and have your feet shod with the stability of the gospel of peace; ¹⁶ above all, take faith as your shield, to enable you to quench all the fire-tipped darts flung by the evil one, ¹⁷ put on salvation as your helmet, and take the Spirit as your sword (that is, the word of God), ¹⁸ praying at all times in the Spirit with all manner of prayer and entreaty — be alive to that, attend to it unceasingly, interceding on behalf of all the saints

⁸ Keep cool, keep awake. Your enemy the devil prowls like a roaring lion, looking out for someone to devour.

¹⁶ he who believes and is baptized shall be saved, but he who will not believe shall be condemned. ¹⁷ And for those who believe, these miracles will follow: they will cast out daemons in my name, they will talk in foreign tongues, ¹⁸ they will handle serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick and make them well."