What Does the Bible Say About Spiritual Warfare?

The Bible addresses spiritual warfare across both Old and New Testaments. These verses are organized by biblical era — from the patriarchs to the apostles — letting Scripture speak for itself.

11 verses·4 eras·7 promises

Exile (~586 BC)

I will put my Spirit in you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land: and you shall know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it and performed it, says Yahweh.
Ezekiel 37:14· GodPromise
I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
Ezekiel 36:26· GodPromise

Life of Jesus (~30 AD)

Jesus answered, "My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn't be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here."
John 18:36· JesusPromise
but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life."
John 4:14· JesusPromise
For to everyone who has will be given, and he will have abundance, but from him who doesn't have, even that which he has will be taken away.
Matthew 25:29· JesusPromise
Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!
John 7:37· JesusPromise

Apostolic Era (~50 AD)

And on her forehead a name was written, "MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH."

United Kingdom (~1000 BC)

For with you is the spring of life. In your light shall we see light.
Psalms 36:9· DavidPrayer
Yahweh will keep you from all evil. He will keep your soul.
Psalms 121:7· DavidPromise
One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after, that I may dwell in the house of Yahweh all the days of my life, to see Yahweh's beauty, and to inquire in his temple.
Psalms 27:4· DavidPrayer
As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God.
Psalms 42:1· Sons of KorahPrayer

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