19 Bible Verses about War
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Or what king, going forth to engage in war with another king, will not first sitting down counsel if he is able with ten thousand to meet him who is coming against him, with twenty thousand?
but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
This charge I commit unto you, O child Timothy, according to the prophecies that went before on you, that you may war a beautiful warfare in the same;
and he will go forth to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war: the number of them being as the sand of the sea.
Whence come wars and whence come battles within you? are they not from thence, from your pleasures warring in your members?
And you will be about to hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that you are not disturbed: for it behooveth all these things to be, but the end is not yet.
And when ye may hear of wars and commotions, be not affrighted: for it behooveth these things first to take place; but the end is not immediately.
For if indeed the trumpet may give an uncertain sound, who will prepare himself for the war?
And when you may hear of wars and rumors of wars, be not disturbed: for it behooves it to be so; but the end is not yet.
And I saw the heaven open, and behold a white horse; and one sitting on him called, Faithful and True, in righteousness he both judges and wages war.
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Camels » Used for » War
David » King of israel » Message » Sent » Misunderstood » War
Israel » Under the judges » Scandal » Concubine » War
Israel » Asa » Treaty » King of syria » benhadad » War
Israel » Judah » Invaded » By samaria » War
Israel » Under the judges » War » Ephraimites » defeated » Jephthah
Israel » Hoshea » History of » War » Two kingdoms
Punishment of the The Wicked » In this life by » War
Ships » Employed in » War
Song » War
War » Horrors of
War » Of extermination
War » General references to
And there went out a red horse: and to him sitting on him it was given to take peace from the earth, and that they shall slay one another: and a great sword was given him.
War » Inflicts defeat in
War » God » Gives the victory in
War » Counsels of
War » Bloody
War » Threatens defeat in
War » Jewish laws concerning
Or what king, going forth to engage in war with another king, will not first sitting down counsel if he is able with ten thousand to meet him who is coming against him, with twenty thousand?
War » Illustrative of » The contest of saints with the enemies of their salvation
This charge I commit unto you, O child Timothy, according to the prophecies that went before on you, that you may war a beautiful warfare in the same;
because there is not to us fighting against blood and flesh, but against the governments, against the authorities, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the heavenlies.
but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
For walking in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh;
War » Civil
War » To cease, an era of peace prophesied
War » Figurative » Is against » The Devil
Be sober, watch. The devil is walking round like a roaring lion, seeking some one to devour:
Therefore draw nigh unto God; and resist the devil, and he will flee from you:
in order that we may not be gobbled up by Satan: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
And the dragon was enraged at the woman, and went away to make war with the remnant of her seed, who keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus.
War » The jews » Frequently engaged in
War » Illustrative of » The contest between antiChrist and the church
And when they may finish their testimony, the beast which ascends up out of the bottomless pit will make war against them, and conquer them, and slay them.
and they worshiped the dragon, because he gave authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying; Who is like the beast? and who is able to make war with him?
And it was given to him to make war with the saints and to conquer them: and authority was given unto him over every tribe, and people, and tongue, and nation.
War » Figurative » Is against » The flesh
And that I may not be exalted by the abundance of revelations, a thorn was given unto me in the flesh, the messenger of Satan that he may buffet me, in order that I may not be exalted.
but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Beloved, I exhort you as pilgrims and strangers, to abstain from the carnal desire which wars against the soul;
For carnality wars against the Spirit, and the Spirit against carnality; for these are antagonistical to one another; so that you may not do the things which you may wish.
But every one contesting is abstinent in all things, they indeed also that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly, do I thus fight not as beating the air: but I keep my body under, and enslave it, lest having preached the gospel to others, I myself may become disapproved.
War » Often attended by » Famine
War » The jews » Were expert in
War » Figurative » Armor for » Over death and the grave
But when this corruptible may put on incorruption, and this mortal may put on immorality, then shall the word which has been written be fulfilled, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting?
War » Requires
Or what king, going forth to engage in war with another king, will not first sitting down counsel if he is able with ten thousand to meet him who is coming against him, with twenty thousand? But if not, while he is yet a great way off, sending an embassy, he asks for those things which appertain to peace.
War » Repugnant to God
If any one leads into captivity he goes into captivity: if any one kills with a sword, it behooves him to be killed with a sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
War » Figurative » Armor for » Through Christ
And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for power is made perfect in weakness. Therefore most delightfully I will glory the more in my infirmities, in order that the power of Christ may abide on me.
And they conquered him through the blood of the Lamb, and the word of their testimony; and with divine love they love not their life unto death.
Thanks be unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord: then therefore with the mind I serve the law of God; but with carnality the law of sin.
War » Figurative » Encouraged in
You are of God, little children, and you have conquered them; because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
War » Strategy in
War » Often attended by » Cruelty
War » Large armies frequently engaged in
War » Figurative » To be carried on » With steadfastness in the faith
Watch, stand in the faith, be men, be strong.
and washed as to our body with purifying water: let us hold fast the testimony of hope steadfast; for the one having promised is faithful;
whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that it is for you to complete the same sufferings in this world along with your brotherhood.
War » Often attended by » Pestilence
War » God » Frequently ordered
War » Preceded by » Rumors
And you will be about to hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that you are not disturbed: for it behooveth all these things to be, but the end is not yet.
War » Figurative » Is against » death
Then since the children have inherited blood and flesh, he likewise also received the same, in order that through death he might set at nought him who has the power of death, that is, the devil; and might reconcile them whosoever were subject to bondage all their life through the fear of death.
War » Preceded by » Consultation
Or what king, going forth to engage in war with another king, will not first sitting down counsel if he is able with ten thousand to meet him who is coming against him, with twenty thousand?
War » Figurative » Strengthened by God in
War » Enemy harangued by the general of the opposing side
War » Wars and rumors of
And when you may hear of wars and rumors of wars, be not disturbed: for it behooves it to be so; but the end is not yet.
And you will be about to hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that you are not disturbed: for it behooveth all these things to be, but the end is not yet.
And when ye may hear of wars and commotions, be not affrighted: for it behooveth these things first to take place; but the end is not immediately.
War » To cease
War » Weapons used in
War » Figurative » Helped by God in
War » Figurative » Armor for » By faith
because everything which has been born of God conquers the world: and this is the victory which has conquered the world, our faith. Who is the one conquering the world, except the one believing that Jesus is the Son of God?
who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness became filled up with dynamite, became mighty in war, put to flight the armies of the aliens: women receive their dead from a resurrection: some were tortured, not accepting deliverance; in order that they might receive a better resurrection: read more.
and others received the trial of scourgings and mockings, and still of bonds and imprisonment: they were stoned, they were tempted, they were burnt, they died by the edge of the sword; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins; being destitute, troubled, persecuted,
War » Figurative » Often arises from the opposition of friends or relatives
For I came to divide a man against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law: and the enemies of a man will be the inmates of his own house.
War » Figurative » Is against » The world
I have spoken these things to you, in order that you may have peace in me. In the world you have tribulation: but take courage; I have conquered the world.
because everything which has been born of God conquers the world: and this is the victory which has conquered the world, our faith. Who is the one conquering the world, except the one believing that Jesus is the Son of God?
War » Figurative » Is against » Enemies
War » Figurative » To be carried on » With prayer
praying with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit in every place, and watching unto this same thing in all perseverance and prayer for all the saints,
War » Figurative » Armor for » Victory in, is from God
But thanks be unto God, who always causes us to triumph in Christ, and manifesting the fragrance of his knowledge through us in every place:
War » Figurative » Armor for » Over the flesh
But those belonging to Christ Jesus have crucified carnality with the passions and lusts.
O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? Thanks be unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord: then therefore with the mind I serve the law of God; but with carnality the law of sin.
War » Figurative » Strengthened by Christ in
but the Lord stood by me, and impowered me; in order that the preaching through me might be fulfilled, and all the Gentiles hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for power is made perfect in weakness. Therefore most delightfully I will glory the more in my infirmities, in order that the power of Christ may abide on me.
War » Figurative » Exhorted to diligence in
Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, into which you have been called, and witnessed a beautiful testimony before many witnesses.
Beloved, making all haste to write to you concerning our common salvation, I had need to write to you, exhorting you to agonize for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
War » Figurative » Thank God for victory in
Thanks be unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord: then therefore with the mind I serve the law of God; but with carnality the law of sin.
War » Figurative » To be carried on » With watchfulness
Be sober, watch. The devil is walking round like a roaring lion, seeking some one to devour:
Watch, stand in the faith, be men, be strong.
War » Figurative » Armor for » Must be put on
Put on the panoply of God, that you may be able to stand against the methods of the devil,
For the night is far spent, and the day is at hand. Therefore let us lay aside the works of the darkness, and let us put on the arms of the light.
War » Figurative » Armor for » Over the devil
The God of peace will speedily crush Satan beneath your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.
I have written unto you, fathers, because you have known him from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.
War » Figurative » Armor for » The helmet of salvation
but let us, who are of the day, be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and divine love; and the helmet, the hope of salvation:
And receive the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
War » Figurative » Armor for » Triumphant
casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
War » Illustrative of » Our contest with death
War » Figurative » To be carried on » With sobriety
Be sober, watch. The devil is walking round like a roaring lion, seeking some one to devour:
War » God » Strengthens his people for
War » A time for
War » Killed in, neglected
War » God » Taught his people the art of
War » Records often kept of
War » Averted
War » Frequently long continued
War » Antiquity of
War » Illustrative of » The malignity of the wicked
War » Figurative » Must stand firm in
Therefore take the panoply of God, that you may be able to stand in the evil day, and having done all things, to stand. Stand therefore, being girded about as to your loins with truth, and being invested with the breastplate of righteousness,
War » Figurative » Is a good warfare
This charge I commit unto you, O child Timothy, according to the prophecies that went before on you, that you may war a beautiful warfare in the same; having faith and a good conscience; which some having cast away have made shipwreck concerning the faith;
War » Figurative » To be carried on » With self-denial
But every one contesting is abstinent in all things, they indeed also that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly, do I thus fight not as beating the air: but I keep my body under, and enslave it, lest having preached the gospel to others, I myself may become disapproved.
War » Figurative » To be carried on » With a good conscience
This charge I commit unto you, O child Timothy, according to the prophecies that went before on you, that you may war a beautiful warfare in the same; having faith and a good conscience; which some having cast away have made shipwreck concerning the faith;
War » Figurative » To be carried on » With faith
This charge I commit unto you, O child Timothy, according to the prophecies that went before on you, that you may war a beautiful warfare in the same; having faith and a good conscience; which some having cast away have made shipwreck concerning the faith;
War » God » Scatters those who delight in
War » God sends panic in
War » Often attended by » Devastation
War » Figurative » To be carried on » With endurance of hardness
On account of this I endure all things for the sake of the elect, in order that they may also have the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
War » Figurative » Armor for » Mighty through God
for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty to God unto the pulling down of strongholds; casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
War » God » Causes, to cease
War » Often sent as a punishment for sin
War » Figurative » Comforted by God in
For we having come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but in everything being troubled; fightings without, fears within. But God, the one comforting the humble, comforted us by the coming of Titus;
War » Figurative » To be carried on » With confidence in God
War » Figurative » Armor for » Over the world
because everything which has been born of God conquers the world: and this is the victory which has conquered the world, our faith. Who is the one conquering the world, except the one believing that Jesus is the Son of God?
War » Divine approval of
War » Originates in the lusts of men
Whence come wars and whence come battles within you? are they not from thence, from your pleasures warring in your members?
War » Preceded by » Great preparation
War » Figurative » Saints are all engaged in
having the same conflict as you saw in me, and now hearing me.
War » Figurative » Called the good fight of faith
Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, into which you have been called, and witnessed a beautiful testimony before many witnesses.
War » Figurative » Delivered by Christ in
And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and save me into his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory unto the ages of the ages. Amen.
War » Figurative » Protected by God in
War » Figurative » Warfare of saints » Is not after the flesh
For walking in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh;
War » Figurative » To be carried on » Under Christ, as our captain
For it became him, on account of whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in leading many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through suffering.
War » Figurative » To be carried on » With earnestness
Beloved, making all haste to write to you concerning our common salvation, I had need to write to you, exhorting you to agonize for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
War » Figurative » Armor for » Not carnal
for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty to God unto the pulling down of strongholds;
War » Figurative » Armor for » Over all that exalts itself
casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
War » Figurative » Armor for » Called "the armor of God,"
Put on the panoply of God, that you may be able to stand against the methods of the devil,
War » Figurative » Armor for » The whole, is required
Therefore take the panoply of God, that you may be able to stand in the evil day, and having done all things, to stand.
War » Figurative » Armor for » The breastplate of righteousness
Stand therefore, being girded about as to your loins with truth, and being invested with the breastplate of righteousness,
War » Figurative » Armor for » The belt of truth
Stand therefore, being girded about as to your loins with truth, and being invested with the breastplate of righteousness,
War » Figurative » Armor for » The preparation of the gospel
War » Figurative » Armor for » The shield of faith
in all things taking the shield of faith, with which you shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one.
War » Figurative » Armor for » The sword of the spirit
And receive the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
War » Figurative » Armor for » Called "the armor of light,"
For the night is far spent, and the day is at hand. Therefore let us lay aside the works of the darkness, and let us put on the arms of the light.
War » Forbidden
War » Figurative » Those who overcome in, will eat of the hidden manna
Let the one having ears hear what the Spirit says to the churches; unto the one conquering will I give to him of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone my new name having been written, which no one knows but the one receiving it.
War » Figurative » Have a white stone, and in it a new name written
Let the one having ears hear what the Spirit says to the churches; unto the one conquering will I give to him of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone my new name having been written, which no one knows but the one receiving it.
War » Figurative » Sit with Christ on his throne
The one conquering, I will give unto him to sit with me on my throne, as I indeed have conquered, and sat down with my Father on his throne.
War » Figurative » Have the morning star
and I will give unto him the morning star.
War » Figurative » Have the name of God written upon them by Christ
The one conquering, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go out no more: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God: and my new name.
War » Figurative » Mere professors do not maintain
War » Figurative » Not be hurt by the second death
Let the one having ears, hear what the Spirit says to the churches; The one conquering can never be hurt by the second death.
War » Figurative » Be pillars in the temple of God
The one conquering, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go out no more: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God: and my new name.
War » Figurative » Have power over the nations
And the one conquering and holding my works until the end, I will give unto him authority over the nations:
War » Figurative » Have God as their God
The one conquering shall inherit all things; and I will be to him God, and he shall be to me a son.
War » Figurative » Inherit all things
The one conquering shall inherit all things; and I will be to him God, and he shall be to me a son.
War » Figurative » To be carried on » Without earthly entanglements
No one operating as a soldier is entangled with the affairs of life; in order that he may please his commander.
War » Figurative » To be carried on » Under the lord's banner
War » Figurative » Be sons of God
The one conquering shall inherit all things; and I will be to him God, and he shall be to me a son.
War » Figurative » Armor for » Called "the armor of righteousness,"
by the word of truth, by the power of God; through the arms of righteousness right and left,
War » Figurative » Armor for
by the word of truth, by the power of God; through the arms of righteousness right and left,
War » In heaven » Symbolical
War » Figurative » Be confessed by Christ in the presence of God the father
The one conquering shall thus be clothed in white garments; and I will not blot out his name from the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and in the presence of his angels.
War » Figurative » Be clothed in white clothing
The one conquering shall thus be clothed in white garments; and I will not blot out his name from the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and in the presence of his angels.
War » Figurative » Eat from the tree of life
Let the one having ears, hear what the Spirit says to the churches; to him who conquers I will give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of God.
War » Figurative » Symbolized by a red horse
And there went out a red horse: and to him sitting on him it was given to take peace from the earth, and that they shall slay one another: and a great sword was given him.
War » Figurative » Not have their names blotted out of the book of life
The one conquering shall thus be clothed in white garments; and I will not blot out his name from the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and in the presence of his angels.
War » Tumult of
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Civil War
Revelation 6:4And there went out a red horse: and to him sitting on him it was given to take peace from the earth, and that they shall slay one another: and a great sword was given him.
Principles Of War
Matthew 24:6And you will be about to hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that you are not disturbed: for it behooveth all these things to be, but the end is not yet.
Ready For War
Luke 14:31Or what king, going forth to engage in war with another king, will not first sitting down counsel if he is able with ten thousand to meet him who is coming against him, with twenty thousand?
Wars
Matthew 24:6And you will be about to hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that you are not disturbed: for it behooveth all these things to be, but the end is not yet.