Bible Verses About Devil
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for devil, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 8,621 votes, led by 1 Peter 5:8. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Devil
1 Peter 5:8581 votes
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
James 4:7469 votes
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
2 Corinthians 11:14386 votes
And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
1 John 3:4-10318 votes
Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
John 8:44316 votes
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Revelation 12:12280 votes
Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
1 John 5:18-19266 votes
We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.
Ephesians 6:11-12209 votes
Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Revelation 12:9200 votes
And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
2 Corinthians 4:4198 votes
In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
John 10:10184 votes
The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
Revelation 20:10176 votes
And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
1 Corinthians 10:13156 votes
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
Ephesians 6:11147 votes
Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Matthew 25:41127 votes
Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
1 John 3:8127 votes
He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
James 1:13-15125 votes
Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
Romans 16:20113 votes
And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
Hebrews 2:14110 votes
Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
Isaiah 14:1292 votes
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
Luke 22:31-3291 votes
And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat:
Ephesians 2:290 votes
Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
Ephesians 4:2790 votes
Neither give place to the devil.
Revelation 21:888 votes
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
1 Peter 5:8-987 votes
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
What does the Bible say about devil?
Readers most often cite 1 Peter 5:8 on the subject of devil. Across 8,621 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including James 4:7, 2 Corinthians 11:14, 1 John 3:4-10. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.