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Bible Verses About Fallen Angels And Demons

Early Christian writers taught that some angels fell from God and became the devil’s angels or demons. Justin Martyr, Athenagoras, Irenaeus, Origen, Tertullian, and Lactantius all repeat this basic idea, and several link it to sin, apostasy, lust, or rebellion. They also describe demons as hostile spirits that deceive people, oppose worship, and can afflict or possess humans. The Bible passages in Jude, 2 Peter, Revelation, Matthew, and 1 Timothy give the main scriptural frame these writers used.

The witness is broad and early, though some details, like whether demons are the same as the offspring of the fallen angels, are handled a little differently by different authors.

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25 references

Foundation Texts

Jude 1:6 primary

And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.

passage for angels who sinned and are kept for judgment

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.

passage for Satan and his angels being thrown down

For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

passage for angels who sinned and were chained

And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,

passage for the dragon and his angels being cast down

But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.

passage for sacrificing to demons and not God

Supporting Passages

And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.

Unclean spirits from dragon/beast/false prophet, more apocalyptic than doctrinal

He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.

Shows angels in power and judgment language, but less direct to the fallen-angels claim

When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out.

Unclean spirit described in exorcism saying

For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.

Spirits of devils working miracles in the world

And when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a loud voice, he came out of him.

Exorcism passage

(For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.)

Unclean spirit and devil driving a person

For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that were possessed with them: and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed.

Exorcism passage

When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.

Exorcism passage

And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.

Satan as angel of light, related but broader than demons

And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.

Directly says Satan fell from heaven, but is a later passage echo rather than a standalone witness

And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;

passage for deceitful spirits and teachings of demons

Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.

passage that demons believe and tremble

Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.