Bible Verses About Spiritual Warfare
This collection includes 50 passages about Spiritual Warfare. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.
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For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Scripture Passages
(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.
This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare;
Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.
For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.
By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the Lord, to deliver thee.
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
But if thou wilt go, do it, be strong for the battle: God shall make thee fall before the enemy: for God hath power to help, and to cast down.
The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
When the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep thee from every wicked thing.
Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: them that rose up against me hast thou subdued under me.
And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the Lordβs, and he will give you into our hands.
Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
And they that were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed.
But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.
And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
And Saulβs servants said unto him, Behold now, an evil spirit from God troubleth thee.
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
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