The Sword Of The Spirit

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

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’”

Jesus said to him, “Again, it is written, ‘You shall not test the Lord, your God.’”

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. — read the full passage →

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

He had seven stars in his right hand. Out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining at its brightest.

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear:

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. — read the full passage →

Then Jesus said to him, “Get behind me,Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’”

for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds,

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book, if anyone adds to them, may God add to him the plagues which are written in this book.

He humbled you, and allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know; that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of Yahweh’s mouth.

and he has made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand, he has hidden me: and he has made me a polished shaft; in his quiver has he kept me close:

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”

above all, taking up the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one.

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. — read the full passage →

so shall my word be that goes out of my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing I sent it to do.

For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law. — read the full passage →

“To the angel of the assembly in Pergamum write: “He who has the sharp two-edged sword says these things:

But let us, since we belong to the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and, for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

Out of his mouth proceeds a sharp, double-edged sword, that with it he should strike the nations. He will rule them with an iron rod. He treads the wine press of the fierceness of the wrath of God, the Almighty.

Repent therefore, or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might. — read the full passage →

for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn’t bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.

The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.”

Therefore put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having done all, to stand.

For he will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you in all your ways. — read the full passage →

You shall not tempt Yahweh your God, as you tempted him in Massah.

You shall fear Yahweh your God; and you shall serve him, and shall swear by his name.

God spoke all these words, saying, — read the full passage →

He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head; and he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle.

Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness — read the full passage →

that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn’t return there, but waters the earth, and makes it grow and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater; — read the full passage →

May the high praises of God be in their mouths, and a two-edged sword in their hand;

It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

But he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

Then Jesus said to him, “Get behind me,Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’” — read the full passage →

having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples. — read the full passage →

but with righteousness he will judge the poor, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, “This is Yahweh’s word to Zerubbabel, saying, ‘Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says Yahweh of Armies.

and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’” — read the full passage →

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus: — read the full passage →

He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.”

for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds, — read the full passage →

Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will kill with the breath of his mouth, and destroy by the manifestation of his coming;

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. — read the full passage →

By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,

declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done; saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure;

The three companies blew the trumpets, and broke the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands with which to blow; and they shouted, “The sword of Yahweh and of Gideon!”

They blew the three hundred trumpets, and Yahweh set every man’s sword against his fellow, and against all the army; and the army fled as far as Beth Shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath.

Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

Behold, one of those who were with Jesus stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and struck the servant of the high priest, and struck off his ear.

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart. — read the full passage →

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

For he will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you in all your ways.

Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place, for all those who take the sword will die by the sword.

For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming. — read the full passage →

Strap your sword on your thigh, mighty one: your splendor and your majesty.

For though we walk in the flesh, we don’t wage war according to the flesh; — read the full passage →

When they had gone through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.

The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God;

“Don’t think that I came to send peace on the earth. I didn’t come to send peace, but a sword.

“The Assyrian will fall by the sword, not of man; and the sword, not of mankind, shall devour him. He will flee from the sword, and his young men will become subject to forced labor.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

If you love me, keep my commandments.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

They will rule the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in its gates. He will deliver us from the Assyrian, when he invades our land, and when he marches within our border.

For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

When they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were gathered together. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.

Then he said to them, “But now, whoever has a purse, let him take it, and likewise a wallet. Whoever has none, let him sell his cloak, and buy a sword.

He will judge between the nations, and will decide concerning many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.