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Each of these plays a significant role in the narrative of Scripture and the life of believers.<br><br><b>The Holy Spirit</b><br><br>The Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity, co-equal and co-eternal with the Father and the Son. The Holy Spirit is active in creation, inspiration of Scripture, and the life of believers. In <a href="/genesis/1-2.htm">Genesis 1:2</a>, the Spirit of God is described as hovering over the waters during creation. The Holy Spirit's role in the inspiration of Scripture is affirmed in <a href="/2_peter/1-21.htm">2 Peter 1:21</a>: "For no prophecy was ever brought about through human initiative, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit."<br><br>In the New Testament, the Holy Spirit is central to the life of the Church and individual believers. Jesus promised the coming of the Holy Spirit as a Helper and Comforter in <a href="/john/14-16.htm">John 14:16-17</a>: "And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate to be with you forever—the Spirit of truth." The Holy Spirit empowers believers for service, convicts the world of sin, and guides into all truth (<a href="/john/16-8.htm">John 16:8-13</a>).<br><br><b>Human Spirits</b><br><br>The human spirit is the immaterial part of a person, often associated with the soul. It is the aspect of humanity that connects with God. <a href="/ecclesiastes/12-7.htm">Ecclesiastes 12:7</a> states, "Then the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it." The human spirit is capable of worship, as seen in <a href="/john/4-24.htm">John 4:24</a>: "God is Spirit, and His worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth."<br><br>The human spirit is also subject to renewal and transformation through the work of the Holy Spirit. <a href="/romans/8-16.htm">Romans 8:16</a> affirms, "The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children."<br><br><b>Evil and Unclean Spirits</b><br><br>Evil spirits, also known as unclean spirits or demons, are fallen angels who rebelled against God under the leadership of Satan. These spirits are active in opposing God's purposes and afflicting humanity. The Gospels frequently recount Jesus' encounters with evil spirits, demonstrating His authority over them. In <a href="/mark/1-23.htm">Mark 1:23-26</a>, Jesus commands an unclean spirit to come out of a man, and the spirit obeys.<br><br>Believers are warned to be vigilant against the influence of evil spirits. <a href="/ephesians/6-12.htm">Ephesians 6:12</a> reminds Christians, "For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this world’s darkness, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms."<br><br><b>Discernment of Spirits</b><br><br>The discernment of spirits is a spiritual gift mentioned in <a href="/1_corinthians/12-10.htm">1 Corinthians 12:10</a>, enabling believers to distinguish between the Holy Spirit, human spirits, and evil spirits. This gift is vital for maintaining doctrinal purity and spiritual health within the Church.<br><br><b>Conclusion</b><br><br>The concept of spirits in the Bible is multifaceted, encompassing the divine presence of the Holy Spirit, the essence of human beings, and the malevolent forces of evil spirits. Each plays a distinct role in the biblical narrative and the spiritual life of believers.<a name="isb" id="isb"></a><div class="vheading2">International Standard Bible Encyclopedia</div><span class="encheading">DISCERNINGS OF SPIRITS</span><p>di-zurn'-inz, (diakriseis pneumaton, "judicial estimation," "through judgment or separation"): Occurs in <a href="/1_corinthians/12-10.htm">1 Corinthians 12:10</a> as being one of the gifts of the Spirit. The Greek word occurs in <a href="/hebrews/5-14.htm">Hebrews 5:14</a>; and <a href="/romans/14-1.htm">Romans 14:1</a>: "But him that is weak in faith receive ye, yet not for decision of scruples." This translation scarcely expresses the meaning, which Thayer has freely rendered, "not for the purpose of passing judgment on opinions, as to which one is to be preferred as the more correct." Taking these three passages together it is evident that the Greek term which is rendered "discerning" means a distinguishing or discriminating between things that are under consideration; hence, the one who possessed the gift of "discernings of spirits" was able to make distinction between the one who spoke by the Spirit of God and the one who was moved by a false spirit. This gift seems to have been exercised chiefly upon those who assumed the role of teachers, and it was especially important in those days, because there were many false teachers abroad (see <a href="/2_john//1-7.htm">2 John 1:7</a> <a href="/acts/20-29.htm">Acts 20:29, 30</a>). See also <a href="../s/spiritual.htm">SPIRITUAL GIFTS</a>.<br><br>A. W. Fortune<p><span class="encheading">PRISON, SPIRITS IN</span><p>The phrase occurs in the much-disputed passage, <a href="/1_peter/3-18.htm">1 Peter 3:18-20</a>, where the apostle, exhorting Christians to endurance under suffering for well-doing, says: "Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit; in which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison, that aforetime were disobedient, when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water." It is plain that in this context "the spirits in prison" (tois en phulake pneumasin) denote the generation who were disobedient in the days of Noah, while the words "spirits" and "in prison" refer to their present disembodied condition in a place of judgment in the unseen world (compare <a href="/2_peter/2-4.htm">2 Peter 2:4-9</a>). The crucial point in the passage lies in what is said of Christ's preaching to these spirits in prison. The interpretation which strikes one most naturally is that Christ, put to death in the flesh, and made alive again in the spirit, went in this spiritual (disembodied) state, and preached to these spirits, who once had been disobedient, but are viewed as now possibly receptive of His message This is the idea of the passage taken by the majority of modern exegetes, and it finds support in what is said in <a href="/1_peter/4-6.htm">1 Peter 4:6</a>, "For unto this end was the gospel preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit." On this basis is now often reared a mass of doctrine or conjecture respecting "second probation," "restoration," etc.-in part going back to patristic times-for which the passage, even so taken, affords a very narrow foundation (see on this view, Plumptre, The Spirits in Prison; Dorner, System of Christian Doctrine, IV, 130-32; E. White, Life in Christ, chapter xxii). It must be admitted, however, that, on closer examination, the above plausible explanation is compassed with many difficulties. A preaching of Christ in Hades is referred to in no other passage of Scripture, while Peter appears to be speaking to his readers of something with which they are familiar; it seems strange that these antediluvians should be singled out as the sole objects of this preaching in the spiritual world; the word "made alive" does not exegetically refer to a disembodied state, but to the resurrection of Christ in the body, etc. Another line of interpretation is therefore preferred by many, who take the words "in which also he went," to refer, not to a disembodied manifestation, but to the historical preaching to the antediluvian generation through Noah while they yet lived. In favor of this view is the fact that the apostle in <a href="/1_peter/1-11.htm">1 Peter 1:11</a> regards the earlier prophetic preaching as a testifying of "the Spirit of Christ," that God's long-suffering with Noah's generation is described in <a href="/genesis/6-5.htm">Genesis 6:5</a>, which Peter has doubtless in his mind, as a striving of God's Spirit, and that in <a href="/2_peter/2-5.htm">2 Peter 2:5</a> there is another allusion to these events, and Noah is described as "a preacher of righteousness." The passage, <a href="/1_peter/4-6.htm">1 Peter 4:6</a>, may have the more general meaning that Christians who have died are at no disadvantage in the judgment as compared with those who shall be alive at the Parousia (compare <a href="/1_thessalonians/4-15.htm">1 Thessalonians 4:15-18</a>). (For an exposition of this view, with a full account of the interpretations and literature on the subject, compare Salmond's Christian Doctrine of Immortality, 4th edition, 364-87.)<br><br>See also <a href="../e/eschatology.htm">ESCHATOLOGY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT</a>.<br><br>James Orr<p><span class="encheading">SPIRITS, DISCERNINGS OF</span><p>See <a href="../d/discernings.htm">DISCERNINGS OF SPIRITS</a>; <a href="../s/spiritual.htm">SPIRITUAL GIFTS</a>.<p><span class="encheading">SPIRITS IN PRISON</span><p>See <a href="../p/prison.htm">PRISON, SPIRITS IN</a>.<p><a name="grk" id="grk"></a><div class="vheading2">Greek</div><a href="/greek/86.htm"><span class="l">86. hades -- Hades, the abode of departed <b>spirits</b></span></a> <br><b>...</b> Hades, the abode of departed <b>spirits</b>. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration:<br> hades Phonetic Spelling: (hah'-dace) Short Definition: Hades Definition <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/86.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 7k</font><p><a href="/greek/4747.htm"><span class="l">4747. stoicheion -- one of a row, hence a letter (of the alphabet) <b>...</b></span></a> <br><b>...</b> of Gentiles" (J. Thayer). The however renders as "elemental <b>spirits</b>," ie<br> or "cosmic <b>spirits</b>" (, 2, 828). This views 4747 ("elements <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/4747.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 8k</font><p><a href="/greek/2709.htm"><span class="l">2709. katachthonios -- under the earth</span></a> <br><b>...</b> under the earth. From kata and chthon (the ground); subterranean, ie Infernal<br> (belonging to the world of departed <b>spirits</b>) -- under the earth. see GREEK kata. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/2709.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p><a href="/greek/5440.htm"><span class="l">5440. phulakterion -- an outpost, fortification, an amulet</span></a> <br><b>...</b> the Hebrew texts, affixed to the left upper arm or the forehead of men at morning<br> prayer, and regarded as a protection (hence the name) against evil <b>spirits</b>. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/5440.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 7k</font><p><a href="/greek/145.htm"><span class="l">145. aistheterion -- organ of perception</span></a> <br><b>...</b> 145 () is "the concrete organ of , becoming virtually a habitual ability which must<br> be developed and enables believers to distinguish between the <b>spirits</b>. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/145.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 7k</font><p><a href="/greek/2115.htm"><span class="l">2115. euthumos -- of good cheer</span></a> <br><b>...</b> cheerful, encouraged From eu and thumos; in fine <b>spirits</b>, ie Cheerful -- of good<br> cheer, the more cheerfully. see GREEK eu. see GREEK thumos. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/2115.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p><a href="/greek/954.htm"><span class="l">954. Beelzeboul -- Beelzebul, a name of Satan</span></a> <br><b>...</b> Transliteration: Beelzeboul Phonetic Spelling: (beh-el-zeb-ool') Short Definition:<br> Beelzebul Definition: Beelzebul, a name of Satan, the chief of evil <b>spirits</b>. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/954.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 7k</font><p><a href="/greek/2174.htm"><span class="l">2174. eupsucheo -- to be of good courage</span></a> <br><b>...</b> be of good comfort, have courage. From a compound of eu and psuche; to be in good<br> <b>spirits</b>, ie Feel encouraged -- be of good comfort. see GREEK eu. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/2174.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 7k</font><p><a href="/greek/3791.htm"><span class="l">3791. ochleo -- to disturb, trouble</span></a> <br><b>...</b> Both times it refers to unclean <b>spirits</b> (demons) exerting an sense of -- ie a<br> dominating influence with the force of a , carrying someone along. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/3791.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 7k</font><p><a href="/greek/2114.htm"><span class="l">2114. euthumeo -- to be of good cheer</span></a> <br><b>...</b> good" and 2372 , "passion") -- properly, to show as it proceeds from a sound<br> disposition (temper); hence, "be of good cheer, in good <b>spirits</b>" (high morale). <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/2114.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 7k</font><a name="heb" id="heb"></a><div class="vheading2">Strong's Hebrew</div><a href="/hebrew/7496.htm"><span class="l">7496. rapha -- shades, ghosts</span></a><br><b>...</b> 7495, 7496. rapha. 7497 . shades, ghosts. Transliteration: rapha Phonetic<br> Spelling: (raw-faw') Short Definition: <b>spirits</b>. Word Origin <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/7496.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/3820.htm"><span class="l">3820. leb -- inner man, mind, will, heart</span></a><br><b>...</b> senseless* (1), seriously (1), skill* (1), skilled* (1), skillful man* (1), skillful<br> men* (1), skillful persons* (1), skillful* (3), <b>spirits</b> (1), stouthearted <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/3820.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 7k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/7307.htm"><span class="l">7307. ruach -- breath, wind, spirit</span></a><br><b>...</b> 1), heart (1), inspired (1), mind (3), motives (1), points (1), quick-tempered*<br> (1), side (4), sides (2), Spirit (76), spirit (127), <b>spirits</b> (3), strength (1 <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/7307.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/8424.htm"><span class="l">8424. tugah -- grief</span></a><br><b>...</b> Tubal-cain. From yagah; depression (of <b>spirits</b>); concretely a grief -- heaviness,<br> sorrow. see HEBREW yagah. 8423, 8424. tugah. 8425 . Strong's Numbers. <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/8424.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><a name="lib" id="lib"></a><div class="vheading2">Library</div><p><a href="/library/bliss/a_brief_commentary_on_the_apocalypse/the_unclean_spirits.htm"><span class="l">The Unclean <b>Spirits</b>.</span></a> <br><b>...</b> EXPOSITION OF THE APOCALYPSE. The Unclean <b>Spirits</b>. "And I saw three unclean<br> <b>spirits</b> like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../bliss/a brief commentary on the apocalypse/the unclean spirits.htm</font><p><a href="/library/bliss/a_brief_commentary_on_the_apocalypse/the_success_of_the_spirits.htm"><span class="l">The Success of the <b>Spirits</b>.</span></a> <br><b>...</b> EXPOSITION OF THE APOCALYPSE. The Success of the <b>Spirits</b>. "And they gathered<br> them into a place called in Hebrew Armageddon." Rev.16:16. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../bliss/a brief commentary on the apocalypse/the success of the spirits.htm</font><p><a href="/library/white/the_great_controversy_between_christ_and_satan_/31_agency_of_evil_spirits.htm"><span class="l">Agency of Evil <b>Spirits</b>.</span></a> <br><b>...</b> 31. AGENCY OF EVIL <b>SPIRITS</b>. [Illustration: Chapter header.] The connection<br> of the visible with the invisible world, the ministration <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../the great controversy between christ and satan /31 agency of evil spirits.htm</font><p><a href="/library/wesley/the_journal_of_john_wesley/good_or_bad_spirits.htm"><span class="l">Good or Bad <b>Spirits</b>?</span></a> <br><b>...</b> Chapter 16. Windsor Park; Wesley as Art Critic; Glasgow and Perth; At<br> 70, Wesley Preaches to 30,000 People Good or Bad <b>Spirits</b>? <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../wesley/the journal of john wesley/good or bad spirits.htm</font><p><a href="/library/jowett/my_daily_meditation_for_the_circling_year/november_the_eighteenth_exhilarant_spirits.htm"><span class="l">November the Eighteenth Exhilarant <b>Spirits</b></span></a> <br><b>...</b> NOVEMBER The Eighteenth EXHILARANT <b>SPIRITS</b>. "He maketh my feet like hinds'<br> feet." "Psalm 18:31-39. I think of Wordsworth's lines <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../november the eighteenth exhilarant spirits.htm</font><p><a href="/library/augustine/writings_in_connection_with_the_manichaean_controversy_/chapter_7_name_corruption_of.htm"><span class="l">The Corruption of Rational <b>Spirits</b> is on the one Hand Voluntary <b>...</b></span></a> <br><b>...</b> Concerning the Nature of Good, Against the Manich??ans. Chapter 7. "The Corruption<br> of Rational <b>Spirits</b> is on the One Hand Voluntary, on the Other Penal. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../chapter 7 name corruption of.htm</font><p><a href="/library/white/the_great_controversy/chapter_31_agency_of_evil.htm"><span class="l">Agency of Evil <b>Spirits</b></span></a> <br><b>...</b> Chapter 31 Agency of Evil <b>Spirits</b>. The connection of the visible with the<br> invisible world, the ministration of angels of God, and <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../white/the great controversy/chapter 31 agency of evil.htm</font><p><a href="/library/adams/hymns_for_christian_devotion/74__subjection_to_the.htm"><span class="l">Subjection to the Father of <b>Spirits</b>.</span></a> <br><b>...</b> 74. " Subjection to the Father of <b>Spirits</b>. 74. LM Doddridge. Subjection to<br> the Father of <b>Spirits</b>. 1 Eternal Source of light and thought! <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../adams/hymns for christian devotion/74 subjection to the.htm</font><p><a href="/library/pastor/the_pastor_books_first_second_third/commandment_sixth_how_to_recognise.htm"><span class="l">Commandment Sixth. How to Recognise the Two <b>Spirits</b> Attendant on <b>...</b></span></a> <br><b>...</b> Commandment Sixth. How to Recognise the Two <b>Spirits</b> Attendant on Each Man, and How<br> to Distinguish the Suggestions of the One from Those of the Other. Chap. I. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../the pastor books first second third/commandment sixth how to recognise.htm</font><p><a href="/library/tatian/tatians_address_to_the_greeks/chapter_xii_the_two_kinds_of.htm"><span class="l">The Two Kinds of <b>Spirits</b>.</span></a> <br><b>...</b> Chapter XII."The Two Kinds of <b>Spirits</b>. We recognise two varieties of spirit,<br> one of which is called the soul [456] (psuche), but <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../tatian/tatians address to the greeks/chapter xii the two kinds of.htm</font><a name="thes" id="thes"></a><div class="vheading2">Thesaurus</div><a href="/topical/s/spirits.htm"><span class="l"><b>Spirits</b> (129 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia DISCERNINGS OF <b>SPIRITS</b>. di-zurn <b>...</b> 30). See<br> also SPIRITUAL GIFTS. AW Fortune. PRISON, <b>SPIRITS</b> IN. The <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/s/spirits.htm - 42k</font><p><a href="/topical/s/sends.htm"><span class="l">Sends (94 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> (WEB WEY BBE DBY NAS RSV NIV). Matthew 9:34 But the Pharisees said, By the ruler<br> of evil <b>spirits</b>, he sends evil <b>spirits</b> out of men. (BBE). <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/s/sends.htm - 32k</font><p><a href="/topical/w/wizards.htm"><span class="l">Wizards (10 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> own city. Saul had put away those who had familiar <b>spirits</b>, and the wizards,<br> out of the land. (WEB KJV ASV WBS YLT RSV). 1 Samuel <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/w/wizards.htm - 10k</font><p><a href="/topical/m/mediums.htm"><span class="l">Mediums (10 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> in his own city. Saul had put away those who had familiar <b>spirits</b>, and the<br> wizards, out of the land. (See NAS RSV NIV). 1 Samuel 28 <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/m/mediums.htm - 10k</font><p><a href="/topical/d/driving.htm"><span class="l">Driving (144 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> Matthew 10:1 And he got together his twelve disciples and gave them the power of<br> driving out unclean <b>spirits</b>, and of making well all sorts of disease and pain. <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/d/driving.htm - 37k</font><p><a href="/topical/f/foul.htm"><span class="l">Foul (41 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> Matthew 10:1 Then He called to Him His twelve disciples and gave them authority<br> over foul <b>spirits</b>, to drive them out; and to cure every kind of disease and <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/f/foul.htm - 21k</font><p><a href="/topical/s/spiritists.htm"><span class="l">Spiritists (8 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> Leviticus 19:31 Turn ye not unto the ghosts, nor unto familiar <b>spirits</b>; seek them<br> not out, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God. (See NAS NIV). <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/s/spiritists.htm - 9k</font><p><a href="/topical/f/familiar.htm"><span class="l">Familiar (35 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> The word "familiar" is from the Latin familiaris, meaning a "household servant,"<br> and was intended to express the idea that sorcerers had <b>spirits</b> as their <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/f/familiar.htm - 22k</font><p><a href="/topical/d/discernings.htm"><span class="l">Discernings (1 Occurrence)</span></a><br><b>...</b> Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia DISCERNINGS OF <b>SPIRITS</b>. di-zurn <b>...</b> 29, 30). See<br> also SPIRITUAL GIFTS. AW Fortune. <b>SPIRITS</b>, DISCERNINGS OF. <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/d/discernings.htm - 8k</font><p><a href="/topical/d/divined.htm"><span class="l">Divined (6 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> in his own city. And Saul had put away those that had familiar <b>spirits</b>,<br> and the wizards, out of the land. (See JPS). 2 Kings 21:6 <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/d/divined.htm - 8k</font><p><a name="res" id="res"></a><div class="vheading2">Resources</div><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/familiar-spirits.html">What are familiar spirits? | GotQuestions.org</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/test-the-spirits.html">What does it mean to test the spirits? | GotQuestions.org</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/Nephilim-demons.html">Are the demons the disembodied spirits of the Nephilim? | GotQuestions.org</a><br /><br /><a href="https://clyx.com/term/spirits.htm">Spirits: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com</a><br /><br /><a href="/concordance/">Bible Concordance</a> • <a href="/dictionary/">Bible Dictionary</a> • <a href="/encyclopedia/">Bible Encyclopedia</a> • <a href="/topical/">Topical Bible</a> • <a href="/thesaurus/">Bible Thesuarus</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="cnc" id="cnc"></a><div class="vheading2">Concordance</div><span class="encheading">Spirits (129 Occurrences)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/matthew/4-24.htm">Matthew 4:24</a></span><br />And news of him went out through all Syria; and they took to him all who were ill with different diseases and pains, those having evil <span class="boldtext">spirits</span> and those who were off their heads, and those who had no power of moving. And he made them well.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/matthew/7-22.htm">Matthew 7:22</a></span><br />A great number will say to me on that day, Lord, Lord, were we not prophets in your name, and did we not by your name send out evil <span class="boldtext">spirits</span>, and by your name do works of power?<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/matthew/8-16.htm">Matthew 8:16</a></span><br />When evening came, they brought to him many possessed with demons. He cast out the <span class="boldtext">spirits</span> with a word, and healed all who were sick;<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/matthew/8-28.htm">Matthew 8:28</a></span><br />And when he had come to the other side, to the country of the Gadarenes, there came out to him from the place of the dead, two who had evil <span class="boldtext">spirits</span>, so violent that no man was able to go that way.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/matthew/8-31.htm">Matthew 8:31</a></span><br />And the evil <span class="boldtext">spirits</span> made strong prayers to him, saying, If you send us out, let us go into the herd of pigs.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/matthew/8-33.htm">Matthew 8:33</a></span><br />And their keepers went in flight to the town and gave an account of everything, and of the men who had the evil <span class="boldtext">spirits</span>.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/matthew/9-34.htm">Matthew 9:34</a></span><br />But the Pharisees said, By the ruler of evil <span class="boldtext">spirits</span>, he sends evil spirits out of men.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/matthew/10-1.htm">Matthew 10:1</a></span><br />He called to himself his twelve disciples, and gave them authority over unclean <span class="boldtext">spirits</span>, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every sickness.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/matthew/10-8.htm">Matthew 10:8</a></span><br />Make well those who are ill, give life to the dead, make lepers clean, send evil <span class="boldtext">spirits</span> out of men; freely it has been given to you, freely give.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/matthew/12-24.htm">Matthew 12:24</a></span><br />But the Pharisees, hearing of it, said, This man only sends evil <span class="boldtext">spirits</span> out of men by Beelzebub, the ruler of evil spirits.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/matthew/12-27.htm">Matthew 12:27</a></span><br />And if I by Beelzebub send evil <span class="boldtext">spirits</span> out of men, by whom do your sons send them out? So let them be your judges.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/matthew/12-28.htm">Matthew 12:28</a></span><br />But if I by the Spirit of God send out evil <span class="boldtext">spirits</span>, then is the kingdom of God come on you.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/matthew/12-45.htm">Matthew 12:45</a></span><br />Then he goes, and takes with himself seven other <span class="boldtext">spirits</span> more evil than he is, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first. Even so will it be also to this evil generation."<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/mark/1-27.htm">Mark 1:27</a></span><br />They were all amazed, so that they questioned among themselves, saying, "What is this? A new teaching? For with authority he commands even the unclean <span class="boldtext">spirits</span>, and they obey him!"<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/mark/1-32.htm">Mark 1:32</a></span><br />And in the evening, at sundown, they took to him all who were diseased, and those who had evil <span class="boldtext">spirits</span>.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/mark/1-34.htm">Mark 1:34</a></span><br />And a number, who were ill with different diseases, he made well, and sent out evil <span class="boldtext">spirits</span>; but he did not let the evil spirits say anything, because they had knowledge of him.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/mark/1-39.htm">Mark 1:39</a></span><br />And he went into their Synagogues in every part of Galilee, preaching and driving out evil <span class="boldtext">spirits</span>.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/mark/3-11.htm">Mark 3:11</a></span><br />The unclean <span class="boldtext">spirits</span>, whenever they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, "You are the Son of God!"<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/mark/3-15.htm">Mark 3:15</a></span><br />And give them the power of driving out evil <span class="boldtext">spirits</span>: <br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/mark/3-22.htm">Mark 3:22</a></span><br />And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem, said, He has Beelzebub, and, By the ruler of evil <span class="boldtext">spirits</span> he sends evil spirits out of men.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/mark/5-13.htm">Mark 5:13</a></span><br />At once Jesus gave them permission. The unclean <span class="boldtext">spirits</span> came out and entered into the pigs. The herd of about two thousand rushed down the steep bank into the sea, and they were drowned in the sea.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/mark/5-15.htm">Mark 5:15</a></span><br />And they came to Jesus, and saw the man in whom had been the evil <span class="boldtext">spirits</span> seated, clothed and with full use of his senses, and they were full of fear.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/mark/5-16.htm">Mark 5:16</a></span><br />And those who had seen it gave them an account of what had been done to him who had the evil <span class="boldtext">spirits</span>, and of the fate of the pigs.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/mark/5-18.htm">Mark 5:18</a></span><br />And when he was getting into the boat, the man in whom had been the evil <span class="boldtext">spirits</span> had a great desire to come with him.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/mark/6-7.htm">Mark 6:7</a></span><br />He called to himself the twelve, and began to send them out two by two; and he gave them authority over the unclean <span class="boldtext">spirits</span>.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/mark/6-13.htm">Mark 6:13</a></span><br />And they sent out a number of evil <span class="boldtext">spirits</span>, and put oil on a great number who were ill, and made them well.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/mark/9-38.htm">Mark 9:38</a></span><br />John said to him, Master, we saw one driving out evil <span class="boldtext">spirits</span> in your name: and we said that he might not, because he is not one of us.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/mark/16-9.htm">Mark 16:9</a></span><br />Now when he came back from the dead early on the first day of the week, he went first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had sent out seven evil <span class="boldtext">spirits</span>.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/mark/16-17.htm">Mark 16:17</a></span><br />And these signs will be with those who have faith: in my name they will send out evil <span class="boldtext">spirits</span>; and they will make use of new languages; <br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/luke/2-13.htm">Luke 2:13</a></span><br />And suddenly there was with the angel a great band of <span class="boldtext">spirits</span> from heaven, giving praise to God, and saying,<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/luke/4-36.htm">Luke 4:36</a></span><br />Amazement came on all, and they spoke together, one with another, saying, "What is this word? For with authority and power he commands the unclean <span class="boldtext">spirits</span>, and they come out!"<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/luke/4-41.htm">Luke 4:41</a></span><br />And evil <span class="boldtext">spirits</span> came out of a number of them, crying out and saying, You are the Son of God. But he gave them sharp orders not to say a word, because they had knowledge that he was the Christ.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/luke/6-18.htm">Luke 6:18</a></span><br />as well as those who were troubled by unclean <span class="boldtext">spirits</span>, and they were being healed.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/luke/7-21.htm">Luke 7:21</a></span><br />In that hour he cured many of diseases and plagues and evil <span class="boldtext">spirits</span>; and to many who were blind he gave sight. <br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/luke/8-2.htm">Luke 8:2</a></span><br />and certain women who had been healed of evil <span class="boldtext">spirits</span> and infirmities: Mary who was called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out;<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/luke/8-27.htm">Luke 8:27</a></span><br />And when he had come to the land, there came to him a certain man from the town who had evil <span class="boldtext">spirits</span>; and for a long time he had had no clothing on, and was not living in a house but in the place of the dead.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/luke/8-30.htm">Luke 8:30</a></span><br />And Jesus said to him, What is your name? And he said, Legion; for a number of <span class="boldtext">spirits</span> had gone into him.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/luke/8-32.htm">Luke 8:32</a></span><br />Now there was a great herd of pigs in that place, getting food on the mountain: and the evil <span class="boldtext">spirits</span> made a request to him that he would let them go into the pigs, and he let them.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/luke/8-33.htm">Luke 8:33</a></span><br />And the evil <span class="boldtext">spirits</span> came out of the man and went into the pigs: and the herd went rushing down a sharp slope into the water and came to destruction. <br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/luke/8-35.htm">Luke 8:35</a></span><br />And they went out to see what had taken place, and they came to Jesus and saw the man out of whom the evil <span class="boldtext">spirits</span> had gone, seated, clothed and with full use of his senses, at the feet of Jesus; and fear came on them.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/luke/8-36.htm">Luke 8:36</a></span><br />And those who had seen it gave them an account of how the man who had the evil <span class="boldtext">spirits</span> was made well. <br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/luke/8-38.htm">Luke 8:38</a></span><br />But the man from whom the evil <span class="boldtext">spirits</span> had gone out had a great desire to be with him, but he sent him away, saying,<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/luke/9-1.htm">Luke 9:1</a></span><br />And getting the twelve together, he gave them power and authority over all evil <span class="boldtext">spirits</span> and over diseases, to make them well.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/luke/9-49.htm">Luke 9:49</a></span><br />And John, answering, said, Master, we saw a man driving out evil <span class="boldtext">spirits</span> in your name, and we did not let him do it, because he was not one of us.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/luke/10-17.htm">Luke 10:17</a></span><br />And the seventy came back with joy, saying, Lord, even the evil <span class="boldtext">spirits</span> are under our power in your name.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/luke/10-20.htm">Luke 10:20</a></span><br />Nevertheless, don't rejoice in this, that the <span class="boldtext">spirits</span> are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven."<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/luke/11-15.htm">Luke 11:15</a></span><br />But some of them said, He sends out evil <span class="boldtext">spirits</span> by Beelzebul, the ruler of evil spirits.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/luke/11-18.htm">Luke 11:18</a></span><br />If, then, Satan is at war with himself, how will he keep his kingdom? because you say that I send evil <span class="boldtext">spirits</span> out of men by the help of Beelzebul.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/luke/11-19.htm">Luke 11:19</a></span><br />And if I, by Beelzebul, send out evil <span class="boldtext">spirits</span>, by whose help do your sons send them out? so let them be your judges.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/luke/11-20.htm">Luke 11:20</a></span><br />But if I, by the finger of God, send out evil <span class="boldtext">spirits</span>, then the kingdom of God has overtaken you.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/luke/11-26.htm">Luke 11:26</a></span><br />Then he goes, and takes seven other <span class="boldtext">spirits</span> more evil than himself, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first."<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/luke/13-32.htm">Luke 13:32</a></span><br />And he said, Go and say to that fox, I send out evil <span class="boldtext">spirits</span> and do works of mercy today and tomorrow, and on the third day my work will be complete.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/acts/5-16.htm">Acts 5:16</a></span><br />Multitudes also came together from the cities around Jerusalem, bringing sick people, and those who were tormented by unclean <span class="boldtext">spirits</span>: and they were all healed.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/acts/8-7.htm">Acts 8:7</a></span><br />For unclean <span class="boldtext">spirits</span> came out of many of those who had them. They came out, crying with a loud voice. Many who had been paralyzed and lame were healed.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/acts/10-38.htm">Acts 10:38</a></span><br />About Jesus of Nazareth, how God gave the Holy Spirit to him, with power: and how he went about doing good and making well all who were troubled by evil <span class="boldtext">spirits</span>, for God was with him.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/acts/19-12.htm">Acts 19:12</a></span><br />so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were carried away from his body to the sick, and the evil <span class="boldtext">spirits</span> went out.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/acts/19-13.htm">Acts 19:13</a></span><br />But some of the itinerant Jews, exorcists, took on themselves to invoke over those who had the evil <span class="boldtext">spirits</span> the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, "We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches."<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/acts/23-8.htm">Acts 23:8</a></span><br />For the Sadducees say that there is no coming back from the dead, and no angels or <span class="boldtext">spirits</span>: but the Pharisees have belief in all these.<br /><span class="source">(BBE NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/acts/27-36.htm">Acts 27:36</a></span><br />This raised the <span class="boldtext">spirits</span> of all, and they too took food.<br /><span class="source">(WEY)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/romans/8-10.htm">Romans 8:10</a></span><br />and if Christ 'is' in you, the body, indeed, 'is' dead because of sin, and the Spirit 'is' life because of righteousness,<br /><span class="source">(See RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/romans/8-16.htm">Romans 8:16</a></span><br />The Spirit Himself bears witness, along with our own <span class="boldtext">spirits</span>, to the fact that we are children of God;<br /><span class="source">(WEY)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/1_corinthians/10-20.htm">1 Corinthians 10:20</a></span><br />What I say is that the things offered by the Gentiles are offered to evil <span class="boldtext">spirits</span> and not to God; and it is not my desire for you to have any part with evil spirits. <br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/1_corinthians/10-21.htm">1 Corinthians 10:21</a></span><br />It is not possible for you, at the same time, to take the cup of the Lord and the cup of evil <span class="boldtext">spirits</span>; you may not take part in the table of the Lord and the table of evil spirits.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/1_corinthians/12-10.htm">1 Corinthians 12:10</a></span><br />and to another workings of miracles; and to another prophecy; and to another discerning of <span class="boldtext">spirits</span>; to another different kinds of languages; and to another the interpretation of languages. <br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/1_corinthians/14-12.htm">1 Corinthians 14:12</a></span><br />Thus ye also, since ye are desirous of <span class="boldtext">spirits</span>, seek that ye may abound for the edification of the assembly.<br /><span class="source">(DBY)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/1_corinthians/14-32.htm">1 Corinthians 14:32</a></span><br />The <span class="boldtext">spirits</span> of the prophets are subject to the prophets,<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_corinthians/5-3.htm">2 Corinthians 5:3</a></span><br />So that our <span class="boldtext">spirits</span> may not be unclothed. <br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/galatians/4-3.htm">Galatians 4:3</a></span><br />So we also, when spiritually we were children, were subject to the world's rudimentary notions, and were enslaved.<br /><span class="source">(See RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/galatians/4-9.htm">Galatians 4:9</a></span><br />But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?<br /><span class="source">(See RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/galatians/6-18.htm">Galatians 6:18</a></span><br />May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your <span class="boldtext">spirits</span>, brethren. Amen.<br /><span class="source">(WEY)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ephesians/2-2.htm">Ephesians 2:2</a></span><br />which were once habitual to you while you walked in the ways of this world and obeyed the Prince of the powers of the air, the <span class="boldtext">spirits</span> that are now at work in the hearts of the sons of disobedience--to you God has given Life.<br /><span class="source">(WEY)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/philippians/4-23.htm">Philippians 4:23</a></span><br />May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your <span class="boldtext">spirits</span>. <br /><span class="source">(WEY)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/colossians/2-8.htm">Colossians 2:8</a></span><br />Be careful that you don't let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.<br /><span class="source">(See RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/colossians/2-20.htm">Colossians 2:20</a></span><br />If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,<br /><span class="source">(See RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/1_thessalonians/5-23.htm">1 Thessalonians 5:23</a></span><br />And may God Himself who gives peace, make you entirely holy; and may your <span class="boldtext">spirits</span>, souls and bodies be preserved complete and be found blameless at the Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.<br /><span class="source">(WEY)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/1_timothy/4-1.htm">1 Timothy 4:1</a></span><br />But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing <span class="boldtext">spirits</span> and doctrines of demons,<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/hebrews/1-7.htm">Hebrews 1:7</a></span><br />And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels <span class="boldtext">spirits</span>, and his ministers a flame of fire.<br /><span class="source">(KJV DBY WBS YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/hebrews/1-14.htm">Hebrews 1:14</a></span><br />Aren't they all serving <span class="boldtext">spirits</span>, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/hebrews/12-9.htm">Hebrews 12:9</a></span><br />Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of <span class="boldtext">spirits</span>, and live?<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/hebrews/12-23.htm">Hebrews 12:23</a></span><br />to the general assembly and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the <span class="boldtext">spirits</span> of just men made perfect,<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/james/2-19.htm">James 2:19</a></span><br />You believe that God is one, and you are quite right: evil <span class="boldtext">spirits</span> also believe this, and shudder."<br /><span class="source">(WEY BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/james/3-15.htm">James 3:15</a></span><br />That is not the wisdom which comes down from above: it belongs to earth, to the unspiritual nature, and to evil <span class="boldtext">spirits</span>.<br /><span class="source">(WEY)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/james/5-13.htm">James 5:13</a></span><br />Is one of you suffering? Let him pray. Is any one in good <span class="boldtext">spirits</span>? Let him sing a psalm. <br /><span class="source">(WEY)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/1_peter/3-19.htm">1 Peter 3:19</a></span><br />in which he also went and preached to the <span class="boldtext">spirits</span> in prison,<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/1_john/4-1.htm">1 John 4:1</a></span><br />Beloved, don't believe every spirit, but test the <span class="boldtext">spirits</span>, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/revelation/1-4.htm">Revelation 1:4</a></span><br />John, to the seven assemblies that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace, from God, who is and who was and who is to come; and from the seven <span class="boldtext">Spirits</span> who are before his throne;<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/revelation/3-1.htm">Revelation 3:1</a></span><br />"And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: "He who has the seven <span class="boldtext">Spirits</span> of God, and the seven stars says these things: "I know your works, that you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/revelation/4-5.htm">Revelation 4:5</a></span><br />Out of the throne proceed lightnings, sounds, and thunders. There were seven lamps of fire burning before his throne, which are the seven <span class="boldtext">Spirits</span> of God.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/revelation/5-6.htm">Revelation 5:6</a></span><br />I saw in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, having seven horns, and seven eyes, which are the seven <span class="boldtext">Spirits</span> of God, sent out into all the earth.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/revelation/9-20.htm">Revelation 9:20</a></span><br />And the rest of the people, who were not put to death by these evils, were not turned from the works of their hands, but went on giving worship to evil <span class="boldtext">spirits</span>, and images of gold and silver and brass and stone and wood which have no power of seeing or hearing or walking:<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/revelation/16-13.htm">Revelation 16:13</a></span><br />I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean <span class="boldtext">spirits</span>, something like frogs;<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/revelation/16-14.htm">Revelation 16:14</a></span><br />for they are <span class="boldtext">spirits</span> of demons, performing signs; which go forth to the kings of the whole inhabited earth, to gather them together for the war of that great day of God, the Almighty.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/revelation/18-2.htm">Revelation 18:2</a></span><br />And he gave a loud cry, saying, Babylon the great has come down from her high place, she has come to destruction and has become a place of evil <span class="boldtext">spirits</span>, and of every unclean spirit, and a hole for every unclean and hated bird.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/revelation/22-6.htm">Revelation 22:6</a></span><br />He said to me, "These words are faithful and true. The Lord God of the <span class="boldtext">spirits</span> of the prophets sent his angel to show to his bondservants the things which must happen soon."<br /><span class="source">(WEB WEY ASV BBE DBY NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/genesis/26-35.htm">Genesis 26:35</a></span><br />They grieved Isaac's and Rebekah's <span class="boldtext">spirits</span>. <br /><span class="source">(WEB)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/leviticus/17-7.htm">Leviticus 17:7</a></span><br />And let them make no more offerings to evil <span class="boldtext">spirits</span>, after which they have gone, turning away from the Lord. Let this be a law to them for ever, through all their generations.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/leviticus/19-31.htm">Leviticus 19:31</a></span><br />Regard not them that have familiar <span class="boldtext">spirits</span>, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.<br /><span class="source">(KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/leviticus/20-6.htm">Leviticus 20:6</a></span><br />And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar <span class="boldtext">spirits</span>, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.<br /><span class="source">(KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/leviticus/20-27.htm">Leviticus 20:27</a></span><br />Any man or woman who makes use of <span class="boldtext">spirits</span>, or who is a wonder-worker, is to be put to death: they are to be stoned with stones: their blood will be on them.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/16-22.htm">Numbers 16:22</a></span><br />They fell on their faces, and said, "God, the God of the <span class="boldtext">spirits</span> of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?"<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><a href="/concordance/s/spirits2.htm"></a><a name="sub" id="sub"></a><div class="vheading2">Subtopics</div><p class="pspc"><a href="/topical/e/evp.htm">Evp</a></p><p class="pspc"><a href="/topical/o/ouija_board.htm">Ouija Board</a></p><p class="pspc"><a href="/topical/s/spirits.htm">Spirits</a></p><p class="pspc"><a href="/topical/s/spirits_and_ghosts.htm">Spirits and Ghosts</a></p><p class="pspc"><a href="/topical/s/spirits_in_prison.htm">Spirits in Prison</a></p><p class="pspc"><a href="/topical/s/spirits_walking_the_earth.htm">Spirits Walking the Earth</a></p><a 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