Bible Verses about “swords”
The Bible contains 14 verses about swords across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to [execute] wrath upon him that doeth evil.”
“And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:”
“For the word of God [is] quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and [is] a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”
“Then said Jesus unto him, ‹Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.›”
“¶ [A Psalm] of David. Blessed [be] the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, [and] my fingers to fight:”
“‹Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?›”
“‹But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?›”
“Then said he unto them, ‹But now, he that hath a purse, let him take› [it], ‹and likewise› [his] ‹scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.›”
“‹And a man's foes› [shall be] ‹they of his own household.›”
“‹For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.›”
“‹Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.›”
“And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.”
“They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with those that laded, [every one] with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other [hand] held a weapon.”
“For the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and [so] builded. And he that sounded the trumpet [was] by me.”