35 Bible Verses about Spiritual Warfare, As Conflict

for our conflict is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the potentates of the darkness of this world, against the spiritual [hosts] of evil in the heavenly [worlds].

For though we walk in the flesh we do not war according to the flesh, for the arms of our warfare are not of flesh, but mighty with God to the pulling down of strongholds,

The night is far advanced, and the day is at hand; let us lay aside therefore the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in revelries and drinking, not in lewdness and excesses, not in strife and envy; but put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for desires of the flesh.

for the arms of our warfare are not of flesh, but mighty with God to the pulling down of strongholds,

For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are opposed one to another, so that you do not what you wish.

BELOVED, I exhort you as strangers and foreigners, abstain from carnal desires, which war against the soul,

Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has desired you, to sift like wheat; but I have prayed for you, that your faith may not entirely fail; and when you recover yourself, confirm your brothers.

but I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind, and making me captive to the law of sin which is in my members.

And all who will live piously in Christ Jesus shall be persecuted.

The Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and bring me safe to his heavenly kingdom; to whom be the glory forever and ever; amen.

You have not yet resisted to blood contending against sin.

These things have I told you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you shall have affliction; but be of good courage, I have overcome the world.

Only conduct yourselves as citizens worthily of the gospel of Christ, that whether I come and see you, or be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand firm in one spirit, striving together with one mind for the faith of the gospel, terrified in nothing by the adversaries, which is to them a token of destruction, but to you of salvation, and this from God; because it was given to you in behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him but also to suffer for him,read more.
having the same conflict which you saw in me and now hear of in me.

BELOVED, think not strange of the fiery trial which is to try you, as if some strange thing happened to you, but as you partake of the sufferings of Christ rejoice, that you may also rejoice exulting at the revelation of his glory.

Take therefore the whole armor of God, that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and having done all to stand.

Endure evil as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

but exhort one another daily, while it is called to-day, that no one of you may be hardened by the deception of sin;

And I heard a loud voice in heaven saying, Now has come the salvation and power and kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ, for the accuser of the brothers, that accused them day and night before God, has been cast [to the earth].

Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, be manly, be strong,

Fight the good fight of the faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were called and made the good profession before many witnesses.

so that we boast of you in the churches of God, of your patience and faith, in all your persecutions and the afflictions which you endure,

whom resist, firm in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are accomplished by your brothers in the world. And may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, when you have suffered a little while, himself make you perfect, confirm, strengthen, establish you.

Be sober, be watchful. Your adversary the devil goes about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour;

Brothers, if a man is overtaken with any fault, do you that are spiritual restore such a one with a spirit of meekness, considering yourself; lest you also be tried.

praying with all prayer and supplication on every occasion with the spirit, and watching in the same with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints,

and bring us not into trial, but deliver us from evil.

Watch and pray that you enter not into trial; the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Watch and pray that you enter not into trial; the spirit indeed is willing, but flesh is weak.

Peter therefore was kept by the guard; but prayer was made incessantly by the church to God for him.

and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men; for all have not faith.

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might.

that he would grant to you according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man,

I endure all things with him that strengthens me.

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

Take therefore the whole armor of God, that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and having done all to stand. Stand, therefore, girded about your loins with truth, and having put on the cuirass of righteousness, and bound your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace;read more.
over all, taking the shield of the faith, with which you may be able to extinguish all the fiery darts of evil. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God,