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Bible Verses about “war

The Bible contains 22 verses about war across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.

Ephesians 6:12
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For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high [places].

Romans 12:18
495 votes

If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.

Ecclesiastes 3:8
375 votes

A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

Matthew 5:9
275 votes

‹Blessed› [are] ‹the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.›

Matthew 24:6
239 votes

‹And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all› [these things] ‹must come to pass, but the end is not yet.›

James 4:2
187 votes

Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.

James 4:1
184 votes

¶ From whence [come] wars and fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your lusts that war in your members?

Psalms 144:1
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¶ [A Psalm] of David. Blessed [be] the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, [and] my fingers to fight:

Romans 7:21
65 votes

I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

Romans 7:22
65 votes

For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

Deuteronomy 20:4
64 votes

For the LORD your God [is] he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.

Romans 7:24
63 votes

O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

Romans 7:23
61 votes

But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

Romans 7:25
53 votes

I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

Deuteronomy 20:1
48 votes

¶ When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, [and] a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the LORD thy God [is] with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 20:2
42 votes

And it shall be, when ye are come nigh unto the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak unto the people,

Deuteronomy 20:3
42 votes

And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them;

Proverbs 21:31
40 votes

The horse [is] prepared against the day of battle: but safety [is] of the LORD.

Exodus 15:3
27 votes

The LORD [is] a man of war: the LORD [is] his name.

Isaiah 2:4
24 votes

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.

Jeremiah 51:20
17 votes

Thou [art] my battle axe [and] weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;

Psalms 144:2
12 votes

My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and [he] in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.

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