Bible Verses about โwarโ
The Bible contains 22 verses about war across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โFor 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 forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.โ
โIf it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.โ
โa time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.โ
โBlessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.โ
โYou will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you aren't troubled, for all this must happen, but the end is not yet.โ
โYou lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. You don't have, because you don't ask.โ
โWhere do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members?โ
โBlessed be Yahweh, my rock, who teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to battle:โ
โI find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.โ
โFor I delight in God's law after the inward man,โ
โfor Yahweh your God is he who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you."โ
โWhat a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?โ
โbut I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.โ
โI thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God's law, but with the flesh, the sin's law.โ
โWhen you go forth to battle against your enemies, and see horses, and chariots, [and] a people more than you, you shall not be afraid of them; for Yahweh your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.โ
โIt shall be, when you draw near to the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak to the people,โ
โand shall tell them, "Hear, Israel, you draw near this day to battle against your enemies: don't let your heart faint; don't be afraid, nor tremble, neither be scared of them;โ
โThe horse is prepared for the day of battle; but victory is with Yahweh.โ
โYahweh is a man of war. Yahweh is his name.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
โYou are my battle axe and weapons of war: and with you will I break in pieces the nations; and with you will I destroy kingdoms;โ
โmy loving kindness, my fortress, my high tower, my deliverer, my shield, and he in whom I take refuge; who subdues my people under me.โ
