Spiritual Warfare
Verses collected under Spiritual Warfare describe struggle, resistance, vigilance, and reliance on God’s armor and power.
In the verses gathered under Spiritual Warfare, Scripture describes struggle in terms of God’s armor, opposition to the devil, conflict with the flesh, and a call to stand. The word or idea recurs in at least 17 verses across 11 books and 13 episodes.
Ephesians calls for the complete armor of God in order to stand against the devil’s schemes, and says that the struggle is not against “blood and flesh” but against rulers, authorities, world powers of darkness, and spiritual forces of evil; the following verse again calls for God’s complete armor and standing in the evil day (Ephesians 6:11; Ephesians 6:12; Ephesians 6:13). James joins submission to God with resisting the devil (James 4:7).
Other collected passages speak of weapons powerful through God for destroying strongholds and arguments (2 Corinthians 10:4), opposition between flesh and Spirit (Galatians 5:17), fleshly desires waging war against the soul (1 Peter 2:11), and watchfulness because the devil seeks someone to swallow (1 Peter 5:8).
Across Scripture
2 Corinthians · Galatians · Ephesians · Philippians · Colossians · 1 Thessalonians · 1 Timothy · 2 Timothy · Philemon · James · 1 Peter