Demons: Worship of

They must no longer offer their sacrifices to the goat demons to which they have prostituted themselves. This will be a permanent statute for them for the generations to come.’

They sacrificed to demons, not to God, to gods they had not known, to newly arrived gods, which your fathers did not fear.

And Jeroboam appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat demons and calf idols he had made.

They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.

“All this I will give You,” he said, “if You will fall down and worship me.”

So if You worship me, it will all be Yours.”

No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God. And I do not want you to be participants with demons.

You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot partake in the table of the Lord and the table of demons too.

Now the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will abandon the faith to follow deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons,

They worshiped the dragon who had given authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast, and who can wage war against it?”