Mark 9:18

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“Whenever it seizes him, it throws him to the ground. He foams at the mouth, gnashes his teeth, and becomes rigid. I asked Your disciples to drive it out, but they were unable.””

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BSBPD

“Whenever it seizes him, it throws him to the ground. He foams at the mouth, gnashes his teeth, and becomes rigid. I asked Your disciples to drive it out, but they were unable.””

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“and wheresoever it taketh him, it dasheth him down: and he foameth, and grindeth his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast it out; and they were not able.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“and wherever it doth seize him, it doth tear him, and he foameth, and gnasheth his teeth, and pineth away; and I spake to thy disciples that they may cast it out, and they were not able.'”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Mark 9:18 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 2 Kings 4:29So Elisha said to Gehazi, “Tie up your garment, take my staff in your hand, and go! If you meet anyone, do not greet him, and if anyone greets you, do not answer him. Then lay my staff on the boy’s face.”
  2. Job 16:9His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.
  3. Psalms 112:10The wicked man will see and be grieved; he will gnash his teeth and waste away; the desires of the wicked will perish.
  4. Matthew 8:12But the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
  5. Matthew 15:22And a Canaanite woman from that region came to Him, crying out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is miserably possessed by a demon.”
  6. Matthew 17:16I brought him to Your disciples, but they could not heal him.”
  7. Matthew 17:19Afterward the disciples came to Jesus privately and asked, “Why couldn’t we drive it out?”
  8. Mark 9:20So they brought him, and seeing Jesus, the spirit immediately threw the boy into a convulsion. He fell to the ground and rolled around, foaming at the mouth.
  9. Mark 9:26After shrieking and convulsing him violently, the spirit came out. The boy became like a corpse, so that many said, “He is dead.”
  10. Mark 9:28After Jesus had gone into the house, His disciples asked Him privately, “Why couldn’t we drive it out?”
  11. Mark 11:23“Truly I tell you that if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and has no doubt in his heart but believes that it will happen, it will be done for him.
  12. Luke 9:39A spirit keeps seizing him, and he screams abruptly. It throws him into convulsions so that he foams at the mouth. It keeps mauling him and rarely departs from him.
  13. Acts 7:54On hearing this, the members of the Sanhedrin were enraged, and they gnashed their teeth at him.
  14. Jude 1:13They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.

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