100 Bible Verses about Satanic Bondage

John 8:44 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Ephesians 6:12 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

1 Peter 5:8-9 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world.

James 4:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Ephesians 6:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.

Galatians 5:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

John 10:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

John 1:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,

Mark 16:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;

Revelation 12:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

Ephesians 6:10-18 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm. Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, ...

2 Corinthians 4:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

John 8:32 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Leviticus 19:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God.

1 John 5:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

We know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

James 1:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.

Hebrews 2:14-15 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery.

Hebrews 2:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil,

2 Timothy 2:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will.

Ephesians 2:1-3 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

2 Corinthians 11:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.

2 Corinthians 10:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 8:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

Romans 5:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Acts 19:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. And they counted the value of them and found it came to fifty thousand pieces of silver.

John 8:34 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin.

Mark 16:9-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

[[Now when he rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons. She went and told those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept. But when they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they would not believe it. After these things he appeared in another form to two of them, as they were walking into the country. And they went back and told the rest, but they did not believe them. ...

Matthew 17:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 4:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then Jesus said to him, “Be gone, Satan! For it is written, “‘You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve.’”

Isaiah 8:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And when they say to you, “Inquire of the mediums and the necromancers who chirp and mutter,” should not a people inquire of their God? Should they inquire of the dead on behalf of the living?

Deuteronomy 18:9-12 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“When you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations. There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord. And because of these abominations the Lord your God is driving them out before you.

Deuteronomy 13:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has taught rebellion against the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of slavery, to make you leave the way in which the Lord your God commanded you to walk. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.

Deuteronomy 4:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And beware lest you raise your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, you be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them, things that the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Revelation 12:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death.

1 John 5:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.

1 John 4:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

1 John 3:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

1 John 3:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

1 Peter 2:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.

James 2:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty.

James 2:11-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty.

James 2:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.

Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

2 Timothy 2:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, the offspring of David, as preached in my gospel,

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Colossians 2:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

(referring to things that all perish as they are used)—according to human precepts and teachings?

Colossians 2:20-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations— “Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch” (referring to things that all perish as they are used)—according to human precepts and teachings?

Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. ...

Ephesians 6:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

Ephesians 6:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm.

Ephesians 6:11-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

Ephesians 6:1-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. Bondservants, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ, ...

Ephesians 4:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And give no opportunity to the devil.

Ephesians 1:6-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

To the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

Galatians 5:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Galatians 5:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

Galatians 4:9-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more? You observe days and months and seasons and years! I am afraid I may have labored over you in vain.

Galatians 4:8-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those that by nature are not gods. But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more? You observe days and months and seasons and years! I am afraid I may have labored over you in vain.

Galatians 4:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.

Galatians 4:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

To redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.

Galatians 4:3-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world. But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.

Galatians 4:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world.

Galatians 4:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father.

Galatians 4:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything, but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father. In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world. But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. ...

Galatians 4:1-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything, but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father. In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world.

Galatians 4:1-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything, but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father. In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world. But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.

Galatians 3:24-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith. But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian,

Galatians 3:23-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now before faith came, we were held captive under the law, imprisoned until the coming faith would be revealed. So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith. But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian,

Galatians 3:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now before faith came, we were held captive under the law, imprisoned until the coming faith would be revealed.

Galatians 3:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But the Scripture imprisoned everything under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

Galatians 2:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.

Galatians 2:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Yet because of false brothers secretly brought in—who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might bring us into slavery—

2 Corinthians 10:4-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,

2 Corinthians 3:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

2 Corinthians 2:10-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Anyone whom you forgive, I also forgive. Indeed, what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has been for your sake in the presence of Christ, so that we would not be outwitted by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his designs.

1 Corinthians 12:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed. You know that when you were pagans you were led astray to mute idols, however you were led. Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says “Jesus is accursed!” and no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except in the Holy Spirit. Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; ...

1 Corinthians 11:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”

1 Corinthians 10:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons.

1 Corinthians 10:1-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, and all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ. Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness. ...

1 Corinthians 6:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, “The two will become one flesh.”

1 Corinthians 6:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!

1 Corinthians 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Romans 16:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Romans 10:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Romans 8:19-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now.

Romans 8:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.

Romans 8:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

Romans 6:22-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 6:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.

Romans 6:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?

Romans 6:15-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?

Romans 6:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!

Romans 6:1-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. ...

Romans 5:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—

Romans 3:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin,