Wars

You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you aren’t troubled, for all this must happen, but the end is not yet.

a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

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.

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.

There he broke the flaming arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the weapons of war. Selah.

Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

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

It is joy to the righteous to do justice; but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. — read the full passage →

I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God’s law, but with the flesh, the sin’s law.

For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city will be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go out into captivity, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men: — read the full passage →

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.

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;

Why are your strong ones swept away? they didn’t stand, because Yahweh pushed them.

I will stir up the Egyptians against the Egyptians, and they will fight everyone against his brother, and everyone against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.

They will be left together for the ravenous birds of the mountains, and for the animals of the earth. The ravenous birds will summer on them, and all the animals of the earth will winter on them.

For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men; and Yahweh delivered a very great army into their hand, because they had forsaken Yahweh, the God of their fathers. So they executed judgment on Joash.

At the end of the year, the army of the Syrians came up against him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all their plunder to the king of Damascus.

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members? — read the full passage →

He said to them, “It isn’t for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority. — read the full passage →

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. — read the full passage →

He said, “Watch out that you don’t get led astray, for many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he,’ and, ‘The time is at hand.’ Therefore don’t follow them. — read the full passage →

“Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom. — read the full passage →

But no one knows of that day and hour, not even the angels of heaven,but my Father only.

Everyone who is found will be thrust through. Everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.

Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock. When they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that behold, the place was a place for livestock; — read the full passage →

He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son.

that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, and small and great.”

The dragon grew angry with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her seed, who keep God’s commandments and hold Jesus’ testimony.

There was war in the sky. Michael and his angels made war on the dragon. The dragon and his angels made war.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen. — read the full passage →

with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:

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

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively.

Therefore a battle roar will arise among your people, and all your fortresses will be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beth Arbel in the day of battle. The mother was dashed in pieces with her children.

Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped.

David inquired of Yahweh, saying, “If I pursue after this troop, shall I overtake them?” He answered him, “Pursue; for you shall surely overtake them, and shall without fail recover all.”

In the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch, king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim, — read the full passage →

I saw an angel standing in the sun. He cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in the sky, “Come! Be gathered together to the great supper of God,

If anyone is to go into captivity, he will go into captivity. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, he must be killed. Here is the endurance and the faith of the saints.

He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.

He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will go out from there no more. I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my own new name.

He who overcomes will be arrayed in white garments, and I will in no way blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

and I will give him the morning star.

He who overcomes, and he who keeps my works to the end, to him I will give authority over the nations.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who receives it.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. He who overcomes won’t be harmed by the second death.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.

Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

Mercy to you and peace and love be multiplied.

Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

I have written to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God remains in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.

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

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

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

who, through faith subdued kingdoms, worked out righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, — read the full passage →

let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.

and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many children to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me for his heavenly Kingdom; to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear; and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones’ sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

You therefore must endure hardship, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men: — read the full passage →

holding faith and a good conscience; which some having thrust away made a shipwreck concerning the faith;

This instruction I commit to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which led the way to you, that by them you may wage the good warfare;

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.

so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.

having the same conflict which you saw in me, and now hear is in me.

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

and having fitted your feet with the preparation of the Good News of peace;

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

to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ:

Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

For though we walk in the flesh, we don’t wage war according to the flesh;

Nevertheless, he who comforts the lowly, God, comforted us by the coming of Titus;

For even when we had come into Macedonia, our flesh had no relief, but we were afflicted on every side. Fightings were outside. Fear was inside.

in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.

that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his schemes.

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

“Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?”

But when this perishable body will have become imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”

The last enemy that will be abolished is death.

Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. — read the full passage →

And the God of peace will quickly crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let’s therefore throw off the works of darkness, and let’s put on the armor of light.

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. — read the full passage →

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. — read the full passage →

Another came out, a red horse. To him who sat on it was given power to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another. There was given to him a great sword.