Acts 16:18

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

She continued to do this for many days. But Paul became greatly annoyed, and turned and said to the spirit,“I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!” And it came out of her at once.

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  • Mark 16:17 : 17 These signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new languages;
  • Mark 1:34 : 34 So he healed many who were sick with various diseases and drove out many demons. But he would not permit the demons to speak, because they knew him.
  • Luke 10:17-19 : 17 Then the seventy-two returned with joy, saying,“Lord, even the demons submit to us in your name!” 18 So he said to them,“I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. 19 Look, I have given you authority to tread on snakes and scorpions and on the full force of the enemy, and nothing will hurt you.
  • Acts 3:6 : 6 But Peter said,“I have no silver or gold, but what I do have I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, stand up and walk!”
  • Acts 9:34 : 34 Peter said to him,“Aeneas, Jesus the Christ heals you. Get up and make your own bed!” And immediately he got up.
  • Acts 14:13-15 : 13 The priest of the temple of Zeus, located just outside the city, brought bulls and garlands to the city gates; he and the crowds wanted to offer sacrifices to them. 14 But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard about it, they tore their clothes and rushed out into the crowd, shouting, 15 “Men, why are you doing these things? We too are men, with human natures just like you! We are proclaiming the good news to you, so that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything that is in them.
  • Acts 19:12-17 : 12 so that when even handkerchiefs or aprons that had touched his body were brought to the sick, their diseases left them and the evil spirits went out of them. 13 But some itinerant Jewish exorcists tried to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who were possessed by evil spirits, saying,“I sternly warn you by Jesus whom Paul preaches.” 14 (Now seven sons of a man named Sceva, a Jewish high priest, were doing this.) 15 But the evil spirit replied to them,“I know about Jesus and I am acquainted with Paul, but who are you?” 16 Then the man who was possessed by the evil spirit jumped on them and beat them all into submission. He prevailed against them so that they fled from that house naked and wounded. 17 This became known to all who lived in Ephesus, both Jews and Greeks; fear came over them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was praised.
  • Col 2:15 : 15 Disarming the rulers and authorities, he has made a public disgrace of them, triumphing over them by the cross.
  • Mark 9:25-26 : 25 Now when Jesus saw that a crowd was quickly gathering, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it,“Mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him and never enter him again.” 26 It shrieked, threw him into terrible convulsions, and came out. The boy looked so much like a corpse that many said,“He is dead!”
  • Luke 9:1 : 1 The Sending of the Twelve Apostles After Jesus called the twelve together, he gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases,
  • Mark 1:25-26 : 25 But Jesus rebuked him:“Silence! Come out of him!” 26 After throwing him into convulsions, the unclean spirit cried out with a loud voice and came out of him.

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    15 After she and her household were baptized, she urged us,“If you consider me to be a believer in the Lord, come and stay in my house.” And she persuaded us.

    16 Paul and Silas Are Thrown Into Prison Now as we were going to the place of prayer, a slave girl met us who had a spirit that enabled her to foretell the future by supernatural means. She brought her owners a great profit by fortune-telling.

    17 She followed behind Paul and us and kept crying out,“These men are servants of the Most High God, who are proclaiming to you the way of salvation.”

  • 19 But when her owners saw their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the authorities.

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    11 The Seven Sons of Sceva God was performing extraordinary miracles by Paul’s hands,

    12 so that when even handkerchiefs or aprons that had touched his body were brought to the sick, their diseases left them and the evil spirits went out of them.

    13 But some itinerant Jewish exorcists tried to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who were possessed by evil spirits, saying,“I sternly warn you by Jesus whom Paul preaches.”

    14 (Now seven sons of a man named Sceva, a Jewish high priest, were doing this.)

    15 But the evil spirit replied to them,“I know about Jesus and I am acquainted with Paul, but who are you?”

    16 Then the man who was possessed by the evil spirit jumped on them and beat them all into submission. He prevailed against them so that they fled from that house naked and wounded.

  • Mark 5:7-8
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    7 Then he cried out with a loud voice,“Leave me alone, Jesus, Son of the Most High God! I implore you by God– do not torment me!”

    8 (For Jesus had said to him,“Come out of that man, you unclean spirit!”)

  • Mark 1:25-26
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    25 But Jesus rebuked him:“Silence! Come out of him!”

    26 After throwing him into convulsions, the unclean spirit cried out with a loud voice and came out of him.

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    28 When he saw Jesus, he cried out, fell down before him, and shouted with a loud voice,“Leave me alone, Jesus, Son of the Most High God! I beg you, do not torment me!”

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    30 Jesus then asked him,“What is your name?” He said,“Legion,” because many demons had entered him.

    31 And they began to beg him not to order them to depart into the abyss.

  • Luke 4:35-36
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    35 But Jesus rebuked him:“Silence! Come out of him!” Then, after the demon threw the man down in their midst, he came out of him without hurting him.

    36 They were all amazed and began to say to one another,“What’s happening here? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!”

  • Mark 9:25-26
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    25 Now when Jesus saw that a crowd was quickly gathering, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it,“Mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him and never enter him again.”

    26 It shrieked, threw him into terrible convulsions, and came out. The boy looked so much like a corpse that many said,“He is dead!”

  • Mark 7:29-30
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    29 Then he said to her,“Because you said this, you may go. The demon has left your daughter.”

    30 She went home and found the child lying on the bed, and the demon gone.

  • 18 Then Jesus rebuked the demon and it came out of him, and the boy was healed from that moment.

  • 39 and came and apologized to them. After they brought them out, they asked them repeatedly to leave the city.

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    11 and a woman was there who had been disabled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten herself up completely.

    12 When Jesus saw her, he called her to him and said,“Woman, you are freed from your infirmity.”

    13 Then he placed his hands on her, and immediately she straightened up and praised God.

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    29 Calling for lights, the jailer rushed in and fell down trembling at the feet of Paul and Silas.

    30 Then he brought them outside and asked,“Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”

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  • 39 A spirit seizes him, and he suddenly screams; it throws him into convulsions and causes him to foam at the mouth. It hardly ever leaves him alone, torturing him severely.

  • 2 and also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and disabilities: Mary(called Magdalene), from whom seven demons had gone out,

  • 35 At daybreak the magistrates sent their police officers, saying,“Release those men.”

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    54 But Jesus gently took her by the hand and said,“Child, get up.”

    55 Her spirit returned, and she got up immediately. Then he told them to give her something to eat.

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  • 11 Now look, the hand of the Lord is against you, and you will be blind, unable to see the sun for a time!” Immediately mistiness and darkness came over him, and he went around seeking people to lead him by the hand.

  • 22 A Canaanite woman from that area came and cried out,“Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is horribly demon-possessed!”

  • 41 Demons also came out of many, crying out,“You are the Son of God!” But he rebuked them, and would not allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.

  • 16 Then shouldn’t this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen long years, be released from this imprisonment on the Sabbath day?”

  • 23 Just then there was a man in their synagogue with an unclean spirit, and he cried out,

  • 13 On the Sabbath day we went outside the city gate to the side of the river, where we thought there would be a place of prayer, and we sat down and began to speak to the women who had assembled there.

  • 5 Now when Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul became wholly absorbed with proclaiming the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

  • 26 The woman was a Greek, of Syrophoenician origin. She asked him to cast the demon out of her daughter.

  • 33 So Paul left the Areopagus.

  • 16 When it was evening, many demon-possessed people were brought to him. He drove out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick.

  • 8 But the magician Elymas(for that is the way his name is translated) opposed them, trying to turn the proconsul away from the faith.

  • 29 They cried out,“Son of God, leave us alone! Have you come here to torment us before the time?”