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“Master,” said John, “we saw someone driving out demons in your name and we tried to stop him, because he is not one of us.”
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The seventy-two returned with joy and said, “Lord, even the demons submit to us in your name.”
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But some of them said, “By Beelzebul, the prince of demons, he is driving out demons.”
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If Satan is divided against himself, how can his kingdom stand? I say this because you claim that I drive out demons by Beelzebul.
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Now if I drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your followers drive them out? So then, they will be your judges.
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But if I drive out demons by the finger of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.
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He replied, “Go tell that fox, ‘I will keep on driving out demons and healing people today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will reach my goal.’
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First to those in Damascus, then to those in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and then to the Gentiles, I preached that they should repent and turn to God and demonstrate their repentance by their deeds.
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God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his blood—to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished—
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he did it to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.
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But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
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For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,
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My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power,
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No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God, and I do not want you to be participants with demons.
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You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot have a part in both the Lord’s table and the table of demons.
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I persevered in demonstrating among you the marks of a true apostle, including signs, wonders and miracles.
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The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons.
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You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that—and shudder.
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The rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood—idols that cannot see or hear or walk.
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With a mighty voice he shouted: “‘Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great!’ She has become a dwelling for demons and a haunt for every impure spirit, a haunt for every unclean bird, a haunt for every unclean and detestable animal.
