Bible Verses About Warfare

(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)

For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:

And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the Lord’s, and he will give you into our hands.

Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.

For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars.

But thy servants will pass over, every man armed for war, before the Lord to battle, as my lord saith.

The Lord is a man of war: the Lord is his name.

For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.

The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.

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;

And Moses said unto them, If ye will do this thing, if ye will go armed before the Lord to war,

Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:

When the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep thee from every wicked thing.

In what place therefore ye hear the sound of the trumpet, resort ye thither unto us: our God shall fight for us.

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.

And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet.

Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.

And he said, Whether they be come out for peace, take them alive; or whether they be come out for war, take them alive.

No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.

And divide the prey into two parts; between them that took the war upon them, who went out to battle, and between all the congregation:

But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by.

And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:

For there fell down many slain, because the war was of God. And they dwelt in their steads until the captivity.

For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.

The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.

And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: them that rose up against me hast thou subdued under me.

He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.

Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath.

When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it.

Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.

And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord God: every man’s sword shall be against his brother.

When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the Lord thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive,

There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah.

Ye shall not fear them: for the Lord your God he shall fight for you.

They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?

One man of you shall chase a thousand: for the Lord your God, he it is that fighteth for you, as he hath promised you.

Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.