21 Bible Verses about People Overcoming

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Isaac said to his son, “How is it that you have it so quickly, my son?” And he said, “Because the Lord your God caused it to happen to me.”

A wise man scales the city of the mighty
And brings down the stronghold in which they trust.

Where there is no guidance the people fall,
But in abundance of counselors there is victory.

For by wise guidance you will wage war,
And in abundance of counselors there is victory.

But you will chase your enemies and they will fall before you by the sword;

five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and your enemies will fall before you by the sword.

“God brings him out of Egypt,
He is for him like the horns of the wild ox.
He will devour the nations who are his adversaries,
And will crush their bones in pieces,
And shatter them with his arrows.

“Edom shall be a possession,
Seir, its enemies, also will be a possession,
While Israel performs valiantly.

You have not gone up into the breaches, nor did you build the wall around the house of Israel to stand in the battle on the day of the Lord.

indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your seed shall possess the gate of their enemies.

They blessed Rebekah and said to her,
“May you, our sister,
Become thousands of ten thousands,
And may your descendants possess
The gate of those who hate them.”

Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, “We should by all means go up and take possession of it, for we will surely overcome it.”

“From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty,
The bow of Jonathan did not turn back,
And the sword of Saul did not return empty.

“And I have devoured them and shattered them, so that they did not rise;
And they fell under my feet.

I shattered them, so that they were not able to rise;
They fell under my feet.

When evildoers came upon me to devour my flesh,
My adversaries and my enemies, they stumbled and fell.

“You know that David my father was unable to build a house for the name of the Lord his God because of the wars which surrounded him, until the Lord put them under the soles of his feet.

So Rachel said, “With mighty wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister, and I have indeed prevailed.” And she named him Naphtali.

But he said,
“It is not the sound of the cry of triumph,
Nor is it the sound of the cry of defeat;
But the sound of singing I hear.”