Bible Verses about โswordsโ
The Bible contains 14 verses about swords across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โfor he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn't bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.โ
โAnd take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;โ
โFor the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.โ
โThen Jesus said to him, "Put your sword back into its place, for all those who take the sword will die by the sword.โ
โBlessed be Yahweh, my rock, who teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to battle:โ
โOr do you think that I couldn't ask my Father, and he would even now send me more than twelve legions of angels?โ
โHow then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that it must be so?"โ
โThen he said to them, "But now, whoever has a purse, let him take it, and likewise a wallet. Whoever has none, let him sell his cloak, and buy a sword.โ
โA man's foes will be those of his own household.โ
โFor I came to set a man at odds against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.โ
โ"Don't think that I came to send peace on the earth. I didn't come to send peace, but a sword.โ
โHe will judge between the nations, and will decide concerning many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.โ
โThey all built the wall and those who bore burdens loaded themselves; everyone with one of his hands worked in the work, and with the other held his weapon;โ
โand the builders, everyone wore his sword at his side, and so built. He who sounded the trumpet was by me.โ
