Bible Verses About Weapons
This collection includes 50 passages about Weapons. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.
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And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
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(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings to cast stones.
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.
Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand;
Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.
And Jesus answered and said unto them, Are ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and with staves to take me?
Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.
Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;
There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah.
Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord God: every manβs sword shall be against his brother.
And Moses said unto them, If ye will do this thing, if ye will go armed before the Lord to war,
For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.
He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.
And they said, Lord, behold, here are two swords. And he said unto them, It is enough.
Then Jesus said unto the chief priests, and captains of the temple, and the elders, which were come to him, Be ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and staves?
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against the Lord, we will go up and fight, according to all that the Lord our God commanded us. And when ye had girded on every man his weapons of war, ye were ready to go up into the hill.
Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord God.
He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.
But thy servants will pass over, every man armed for war, before the Lord to battle, as my lord saith.
Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:
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.
And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished:
It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree.
A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.
And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king.
Therefore set I in the lower places behind the wall, and on the higher places, I even set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.
Cursed be he that doeth the work of the Lord deceitfully, and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood.
And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years:
Then said Jesus unto Peter, Put up thy sword into the sheath: the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?
That all flesh may know that I the Lord have drawn forth my sword out of his sheath: it shall not return any more.
He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field: and he shall make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against thee, and lift up the buckler against thee.
For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
The children of Judah that bare shield and spear were six thousand and eight hundred, ready armed to the war.
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