Ephesians 6:12

Webster's Bible (1833)

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world's rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

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  • Col 1:13 : 13 who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;
  • Eph 2:2 : 2 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;
  • Col 2:15 : 15 having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
  • 1 Cor 9:25-27 : 25 Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. 26 I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air, 27 but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
  • Rom 8:38 : 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,
  • 2 Cor 4:4 : 4 in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.
  • Heb 12:1 : 1 Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
  • Eph 1:21 : 21 far above all rule, and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come.
  • Eph 3:10 : 10 to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places,
  • Eph 1:3 : 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ;
  • Acts 26:18 : 18 to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'
  • 1 Cor 15:50 : 50 Now I say this, brothers,{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} that flesh and blood can't inherit the Kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.
  • Job 2:2 : 2 Yahweh said to Satan, "Where have you come from?" Satan answered Yahweh, and said, "From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it."
  • Matt 16:17 : 17 Jesus answered him, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.
  • Luke 13:24 : 24 "Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.
  • Luke 22:53 : 53 When I was with you in the temple daily, you didn't stretch out your hands against me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness."
  • John 12:31 : 31 Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.
  • John 14:30 : 30 I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me.
  • John 16:11 : 11 about judgment, because the prince of this world has been judged.
  • 2 Tim 2:5 : 5 Also, if anyone competes in athletics, he isn't crowned unless he has competed by the rules.
  • Heb 12:4 : 4 You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin;
  • 1 Pet 3:22 : 22 who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.
  • Gal 1:16 : 16 to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn't immediately confer with flesh and blood,

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    4for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds,

    5throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;

  • 10to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places,

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  • 2in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;

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    20which he worked in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places,

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  • 7in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

  • 15having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

  • 6We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown; yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing.

  • 26I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air,

  • 7There was war in the sky. Michael and his angels made war on the dragon. The dragon and his angels made war.

  • 27neither give place to the devil.

  • 4You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin;

  • 2Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

  • 31Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.

  • 7Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

  • 14But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

  • 22But when someone stronger attacks him and overcomes him, he takes from him his whole armor in which he trusted, and divides his spoils.

  • 13Which things also we speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

  • 14Don't be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what communion has light with darkness?

  • 18while we don't look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

  • 14that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

  • 12Therefore don't let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

  • 8For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

  • 14for they are spirits of demons, performing signs; which go forth to the kings of the whole inhabited earth, to gather them together for the war of that great day of God, the Almighty.

  • 38For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,

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    17For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one other, that you may not do the things that you desire.

  • 29Or how can one enter into the house of the strong man, and plunder his goods, unless he first bind the strong man? Then he will plunder his house.

  • 5For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

  • 12So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

  • 6Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

  • 27But no one can enter into the house of the strong man to plunder, unless he first binds the strong man; and then he will plunder his house.

  • 21Don't be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

  • 16The man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overpowered them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.