What Does The Bible Say About The Devil?

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Is the existence of the Devil something modern people can still believe? Well, considering all of the evil in our modern world, it seems belief in the existence of the Devil should be easier than ever! How does one explain such things as the Holocaust? There is simply no rational explanation. What does the Bible say about the Devil? Below are just some of the places in the Bible where the Devil is mentioned. Whether modern people are too “sophisticated” to believe the Devil is real or not, one thing is abundantly clear: Jesus and His followers most certainly did!

 

Genesis 3:1-5

1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”

 

2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,

 

3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’ ”

 

4 “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman.

 

5 “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

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Zechariah 3:1-2

1 Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right side to accuse him.

 

2 The LORD said to Satan, “The LORD rebuke you, Satan! The LORD, who has chosen Jerusalem, rebuke you! Is not this man a burning stick snatched from the fire?”

 

Job 1:6-12

6 One day the angels came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them.

 

7 The LORD said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan answered the LORD, “From roaming throughout the earth, going back and forth on it.”

 

8 Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil.”

 

9 “Does Job fear God for nothing?” Satan replied.

 

10 “Have you not put a hedge around him and his household and everything he has? You have blessed the work of his hands, so that his flocks and herds are spread throughout the land.

 

11 But now stretch out your hand and strike everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face.”

 

12 The LORD said to Satan, “Very well, then, everything he has is in your power, but on the man himself do not lay a finger.” Then Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.

 

Matthew 4:1-11

1 Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

 

2 After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.

 

3 The tempter came to him and said, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.”

 

4 Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

 

5 Then the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the temple.

 

6 “If you are the Son of God,” he said, “throw yourself down. For it is written: “ ‘He will command his angels concerning you, and they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’

 

7 Jesus answered him, “It is also written: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’”

 

8 Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor.

 

9 “All this I will give you,” he said, “if you will bow down and worship me.”

 

10 Jesus said to him, “Away from me, Satan! For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.’”

 

11 Then the devil left him, and angels came and attended him.

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Matthew 6:9-13

Our Father in heaven, Your name be honored as holy, Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And do not bring us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.

 

Matthew 13:18

You, then, listen to the parable of the sower: When anyone hears the word about the kingdom and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has sown in his heart. This is the one sown along the path.

 

Matthew 13:37-39

He replied: The One who sows the good seed is the Son of Man; the field is the world; and the good seed—these are the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one, and the enemy who sowed them is the Devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels.

 

Matthew 16:23

23 Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.”

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Mark 1:13

Immediately the Spirit drove Him into the wilderness. He was in the wilderness 40 days, being tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals, and the angels began to serve Him.

 

Luke 10:18

He said to them, “I watched Satan fall from heaven like a lightning flash.

 

Luke 22:1-6

1 Now the Festival of Unleavened Bread, called the Passover, was approaching,

 

2 and the chief priests and the teachers of the law were looking for some way to get rid of Jesus, for they were afraid of the people.

 

3 Then Satan entered Judas, called Iscariot, one of the Twelve.

John 8:44

 

4 You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

 

John 10:10

10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.

 

 

John 17:15

I am not praying that You take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one.

 

Acts 5:3

3 Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has so filled your heart that you have lied to the Holy Spirit and have kept for yourself some of the money you received for the land?

 

Romans 16:20

20 The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.

 

Ephesians 6:12

11 Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes.

 

12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

 

13 Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.

 

14 Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place,

 

15 and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace.

 

16 In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.

 

1 Corinthians 7:5

5 Do not deprive each other except perhaps by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

 

2 Corinthians 2:10-11

10 Anyone you forgive, I also forgive. And what I have forgiven—if there was anything to forgive—I have forgiven in the sight of Christ for your sake,

 

11 in order that Satan might not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes.

 

2 Corinthians 11:3

3 But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ.

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2 Corinthians 12:6-7

6 Even if I should choose to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no one will think more of me than is warranted by what I do or say,

 

7 or because of these surpassingly great revelations. Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.

 

2 Thessalonians 2:1-12

1 Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him, we ask you, brothers and sisters,

 

2 not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by the teaching allegedly from us—whether by a prophecy or by word of mouth or by letter—asserting that the day of the Lord has already come.

 

3 Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction.

 

4 He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God.

 

5 Don’t you remember that when I was with you I used to tell you these things?

 

6 And now you know what is holding him back, so that he may be revealed at the proper time.

 

7 For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way.

 

8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming.

 

9 The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie,

 

10 and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.

 

11 For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie

 

12 and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.

 

1 John 3:8

Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.

 

James 4:7

7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

 

 

 

 

1 Peter 5:8-9

8 Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.

 

9 Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that the family of believers throughout the world is undergoing the same kind of sufferings.

 

Revelation 2:8-13

8 “To the angel of the church in Smyrna write: These are the words of him who is the First and the Last, who died and came to life again.

 

9 I know your afflictions and your poverty—yet you are rich! I know about the slander of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

 

10 Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. I tell you, the devil will put some of you in prison to test you, and you will suffer persecution for ten days. Be faithful, even to the point of death, and I will give you life as your victor’s crown.

 

11 Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who is victorious will not be hurt at all by the second death.

 

12 “To the angel of the church in Pergamum write: These are the words of him who has the sharp, double-edged sword.

 

13 I know where you live—where Satan has his throne. Yet you remain true to my name. You did not renounce your faith in me, not even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness, who was put to death in your city—where Satan lives.

 

 

Revelation 12:1-17

1 A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head.

 

2 She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth.

 

3 Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on its heads.

 

4 Its tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that it might devour her child the moment he was born.

 

5 She gave birth to a son, a male child, who “will rule all the nations with an iron scepter.” And her child was snatched up to God and to his throne.

 

6 The woman fled into the wilderness to a place prepared for her by God, where she might be taken care of for 1,260 days.

 

7 Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back.

 

8 But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven.

 

9 The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.

 

10 Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: “Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Messiah. For the accuser of our brothers and sisters, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been

hurled down.

 

11 They triumphed over him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.

 

12 Therefore rejoice, you heavens and you who dwell in them! But woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has gone down to you! He is filled with fury, because he knows that his time is short.”

 

13 When the dragon saw that he had been hurled to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child.

 

14 The woman was given the two wings of a great eagle, so that she might fly to the place prepared for her in the wilderness, where she would be taken care of for a time, times and half a time, out of the serpent’s reach.

 

15 Then from his mouth the serpent spewed water like a river, to overtake the woman and sweep her away with the torrent.

 

16 But the earth helped the woman by opening its mouth and swallowing the river that the dragon had spewed out of his mouth.

 

17 Then the dragon was enraged at the woman and went off to wage war against the rest of her offspring—those who keep God’s commands and hold fast their testimony about Jesus.

 

Revelation 20:1-6

1 And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key to the Abyss and holding in his hand a great chain.

 

2 He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.