20 Bible Verses about

Resisting the Devil

Ephesians 4:27 BSB

and do not give the devil a foothold.

Matthew 4:11 BSB

Then the devil left Him, and angels came and ministered to Him.

James 4:7 BSB

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

Matthew 4:1 BSB

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

Luke 4:13 BSB

When the devil had finished every temptation, he left Him until an opportune time.

Luke 4:3 BSB

The devil said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread.”

John 6:70 BSB

Jesus answered them, “Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!”

Ephesians 6:11 BSB

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

Matthew 13:39 BSB

and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels.

John 13:2 BSB

The evening meal was underway, and the devil had already put into the heart of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, to betray Jesus.

Matthew 25:41 BSB

Then He will say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.

Luke 8:12 BSB

The seeds along the path are those who hear, but the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved.

1 John 3:8 BSB

The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the very start. This is why the Son of God was revealed, to destroy the works of the devil.

1 John 3:10 BSB

By this the children of God are distinguished from the children of the devil: Anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is anyone who does not love his brother.

1 Corinthians 10:13 BSB

No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide an escape, so that you can stand up under it.

1 John 1:9 BSB

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

Acts 3:19 BSB

Repent, then, and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped away,

Luke 13:3 BSB

No, I tell you. But unless you repent, you too will all perish.

2 Peter 3:9 BSB

The Lord is not slow in keeping His promise as some understand slowness, but is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish but everyone to come to repentance.

Acts 26:20 BSB

First to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, then to everyone in the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, I declared that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds worthy of their repentance.

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