KJV King James Version
And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep.
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Luke 8:31
And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
And the demons kept begging Jesus not to order them to go into the Abyss.
WEB World English Bible
They begged him that he would not command them to go into the abyss.
ASV American Standard Version
And they entreated him that he would not command them to depart into the abyss.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and he was calling on him, that he may not command them to go away to the abyss,
Surrounding context — Luke 8
28 When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, [thou] Son of God most high? I beseech thee, torment me not.
29 (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.)
30 And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: because many devils were entered into him.
31 And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep.
32 And there was there an herd of many swine feeding on the mountain: and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them. And he suffered them.
33 Then went the devils out of the man, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake, and were choked.
34 When they that fed [them] saw what was done, they fled, and went and told [it] in the city and in the country.
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Matthew 25:41Then 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:Luke 8:28When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, [thou] Son of God most high? I beseech thee, torment me not.Revelation 20:1-3And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.Revelation 11:7And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.Job 2:5But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.Revelation 9:11And they had a king over them, [which is] the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue [is] Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath [his] name Apollyon.Philippians 2:10-11That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of [things] in heaven, and [things] in earth, and [things] under the earth;Revelation 20:14-15And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.Revelation 19:20And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.Revelation 17:8The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.Revelation 9:1-2And 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.Job 1:11But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
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