Matthew 12:29
29How can someone go into a strong man's house and carry off his possessions without first tying up the strong man? Then he can ransack his house.Isa 49:24; Luke 11:21-23Luke 10:18
18He said to them, “I was watching Satan fall from heaven like lightning.John 12:31; 16:11; Rev 9:1; 12:8-9John 14:30
30I will not talk with you much longer, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me. ▼▼Lit. has nothing in me
John 12:31; 16:11 John 16:11
11and of judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged. ▼▼Or condemned
Luke 10:18; John 12:31; Acts 26:18; Eph 2:2; Col 2:15; Heb 2:14 Acts 26:18
18You will open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light and from Satan's control to God, so that they might receive the forgiveness of sins and a share among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’Isa 35:5; 42:7; Luke 1:77, 79; John 8:12; Acts 20:32; 2Cor 4:4; 6:14; Eph 1:11, 18; 4:18; 5:8; Col 1:12-13; 1Thes 5:5; Eph 1:11, 18, 1Pet 2:9, 252 Corinthians 4:4
4In their case, the god of this world has blinded the minds of those who do not believe to keep them from seeing the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God.Isa 6:10; John 1:18; 16:11; 2Cor 3:6, 8-9, 11, 14, 18; Eph 6:12; Phil 2:6; Col 1:15; Heb 1:3Ephesians 2:2
2in which you once lived according to the ways of this present world and according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now active in those who are disobedient. ▼▼Lit. the sons of disobedience
1Cor 6:11; Eph 4:22; 5:6; 6:12; Col 1:21; 3:; 1John 5:19 Ephesians 6:12
12For our ▼▼Other mss. read your
struggle is not against a human opponent, ▼▼Lit. flesh and blood
but against rulers, against authorities, against cosmic powers in the darkness around us, ▼▼Lit. of this darkness
against evil spiritual forces in the heavenly realm.Matt 16:17; Luke 22:53; John 12:31; 14:30; Rom 8:38; 1Cor 15:50; Eph 1:21; 2:2; Col 1:13; 2:15
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