100 Bible Verses About Spiritual Warfare
Bible verses about Spiritual Warfare
Understanding spiritual warfare is crucial for every believer seeking to live a victorious and purpose-filled life. Scripture unveils the reality of a battle raging beyond the visible, a conflict for our minds, hearts, and destinies. By studying Bible verses about spiritual warfare, we gain essential insight into the enemy's tactics, God's protective armor, and the power we possess through Christ to overcome darkness. These verses are not just words on a page; they are weapons of truth, offering guidance, strength, and unwavering hope in the face of adversity. Embrace these scriptures, arm yourself with knowledge, and stand firm in faith, knowing that with God, we are more than conquerors.
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1 Kings 12:30 (KJV)
And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan.
Victory in Christ: Bible Verses on Spiritual Warfare
Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.
Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:
Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man.
And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take that, take it: for there is no other save that here. And David said, There is none like that; give it me.
Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the Lord.
For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.
The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed.
Who sent tokens and wonders into the midst of thee, O Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his servants.
And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, when he led thee by the way?
The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten thy law.
He maketh my feet like hinds’ feet, and setteth me upon my high places.
For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:
And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.
Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.
Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.
Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand;
They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the Lord.
A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, which the Lord thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying,
And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the Lord, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:
He spake, and there came divers sorts of flies, and lice in all their coasts.
And when Zebah and Zalmunna fled, he pursued after them, and took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and discomfited all the host.
Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.
There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky.
Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?
Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.
And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.
And he said unto them, Let the Lord be so with you, as I will let you go, and your little ones: look to it; for evil is before you.
A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.
And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.
Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.
Let me not be ashamed, O Lord; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.
Then there came out a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and said, I will entice him. And the Lord said unto him, Wherewith?
And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the Lord in Gilgal.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
But the Lord thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed.
And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the Lord met him, and sought to kill him.
A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.
I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.
They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;
And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan.
That the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, I am the Lord: speak thou unto Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say unto thee.
I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.
And when he came to him, behold, he stood by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said unto him, What hath the Lord spoken?
And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.
Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled.
And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that the Lord had delivered thee to day into mine hand in the cave: and some bade me kill thee: but mine eye spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth mine hand against my lord; for he is the Lord’s anointed.
As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in.
Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
And the Lord said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord.
Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord God of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
Wherefore thus saith the Lord God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.
And he said unto his men, The Lord forbid that I should do this thing unto my master, the Lord’s anointed, to stretch forth mine hand against him, seeing he is the anointed of the Lord.
Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.
To execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints. Praise ye the Lord.
Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do; but they did them not.
And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the Lord: for he is an holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you; that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.
For by thee I have run through a troop: by my God have I leaped over a wall.
When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.
And he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times:
And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.
I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, that I am God.
She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had put away those that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land.
Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern;
The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands.
Behold, the Lord God will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.
He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the Lord hath given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy the strong holds thereof.
Israel was holiness unto the Lord, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the Lord.
And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?
And it came to pass, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk, that he saddled for him the ass, to wit, for the prophet whom he had brought back.
For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, he hath also rejected thee from being king.
Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
For thus hath the Lord spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the Lord of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.
For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words.
He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet.
Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah.
Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.
Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the Lord, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.
Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:
Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.
Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.
The Bible verses explored here illuminate the multifaceted reality of spiritual warfare, reminding us that our struggles extend beyond the visible realm. These passages equip us with the understanding that we are engaged in a battle against unseen forces of darkness, urging us to utilize the armor of God – truth, righteousness, peace, faith, salvation, and the Spirit – as our primary defense. Reflection on these scriptures encourages us to cultivate a deeper awareness of spiritual influences, discern between God's voice and deceptive whispers, and actively resist temptation. Through prayer, faith, and obedience, we can stand firm against the enemy's schemes, aligning ourselves with God's power and ultimately triumphing over spiritual adversity. Let these verses serve as a constant reminder to remain vigilant, clothed in God's strength, and unwavering in our commitment to His truth.