Bible Verses About Wrestling with God

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 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.

Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

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

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

Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?

And the angel of the Lord said unto him, Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? behold, I went out to withstand thee, because thy way is perverse before me:

I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.

Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God, let him answer it.

And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.

For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.

None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

Plead my cause, O Lord, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.

Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

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.

Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.

For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.

Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.

For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.

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.

And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying,

They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in the name of the Lord I will destroy them.

Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.

Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me.

Thus I fell down before the Lord forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; because the Lord had said he would destroy you.

They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the Lord, to deliver thee.

But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

Give heed to me, O Lord, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me.

Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,

And I fell unto the ground, and heard a voice saying unto me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?

Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

The Lord therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thine hand.