21 Bible Verses about People Overcoming
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God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and every creature that crawls on the earth.”
But Isaac said to his son, “How did you ever find it so quickly, my son?”
He replied, “Because the Lord your God worked it out for me.”
A wise person went up against a city of warriors
and brought down its secure fortress.
Without guidance, people fall,
but with many counselors there is deliverance.
You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall before you by the sword.
Five of you will pursue 100, and 100 of you will pursue 10,000; your enemies will fall before you by the sword.
God brought him out of Egypt;
He is like the horns of a wild ox for them.
He will feed on enemy nations
and gnaw their bones;
he will strike them with his arrows.
Edom will become a possession;
Seir will become a possession of its enemies,
but Israel will be triumphant.
You did not go up to the gaps or restore the wall around the house of Israel so that it might stand in battle on the day of the Lord.
I will indeed bless you and make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the gates of their enemies.
They blessed Rebekah, saying to her:
Our sister, may you become
thousands upon ten thousands.
May your offspring possess
the gates of their enemies.
Then Caleb quieted the people in the presence of Moses and said, “We must go up and take possession of the land because we can certainly conquer it!”
Jonathan’s bow never retreated,
Saul’s sword never returned unstained,
from the blood of the slain,
from the bodies of the mighty.
I wipe them out and crush them,
and they do not rise;
they fall beneath my feet.
I crush them, and they cannot get up;
they fall beneath my feet.
When evildoers came against me to devour my flesh,
my foes and my enemies stumbled and fell.
“You know my father David was not able to build a temple for the name of Yahweh his God. This was because of the warfare all around him until the Lord put his enemies under his feet.
Rachel said, “In my wrestlings with God, I have wrestled with my sister and won,” and she named him Naphtali.
But Moses replied:
It’s not the sound of a victory cry
and not the sound of a cry of defeat;
I hear the sound of singing!
