What does the Bible say about fallen angels?

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• Jude 1:6

  Angels who didn't keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

• 2 Peter 2:4

  For if God didn't spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved to judgment;

• Genesis 6:1-22

  [1] It happened, when men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them, [2] that God's sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose. [3] Yahweh said, "My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; yet will his days be one hundred twenty years." [4] The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God's sons came to men's daughters. They bore children to them: the same were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown. [5] Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. [6] Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart. [7] Yahweh said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground; man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them." [8] But Noah found favor in Yahweh's eyes. [9] This is the history of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God. [10] Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. [11] The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. [12] God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth. [13] God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth. [14] Make an ark of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ark, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch. [15] This is how you shall make it. The length of the ark will be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. [16] You shall make a roof in the ark, and to a cubit shall you finish it upward. You shall set the door of the ark in the side of it. You shall make it with lower, second, and third levels. [17] I, even, I do bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die. [18] But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you. [19] Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ark, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female. [20] Of the birds after their kind, of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort shall come to you, to keep them alive. [21] Take with you of all food that is eaten, and gather it to you; and it will be for food for you, and for them." [22] Thus Noah did. According to all that God commanded him, so he did.

• Revelation 12:9

  The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

• Revelation 12:7-9

  [7] There was war in the sky. Michael and his angels made war on the dragon. The dragon and his angels made war. [8] They didn't prevail, neither was a place found for him any more in heaven. [9] The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

• 2 Corinthians 11:14

  And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.

• Ephesians 6:12

  For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world's rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

• Job 2:1

  Again it happened on the day when the sons of God came to present themselves before Yahweh, that Satan came also among them to present himself before Yahweh.

• 1 John 4:1

  Beloved, don't believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

• Matthew 25:41

  Then he will say also to those on the left hand, 'Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;

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