Spiritual Warfare
A collection of passages throughout Scripture to memorize on the topic of spiritual warfare, taken from the Legacy Standard Bible translation.
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24 verses Luke Childress Nov. 14, 2024 English 1
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1 Corinthians 10:12-14LSB
¹² Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed that he does not fall. ¹³ No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man, but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it. ¹⁴ Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
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1 Corinthians 6:18-20LSB
¹⁸ Flee sexual immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral man sins against his own body. ¹⁹ Or do you not know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? ²⁰ For you were bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.
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1 Corinthians 9:25-27LSB
²⁵ Now everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. They then do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. ²⁶ Therefore I run in such a way, as not without aim; I box in such a way, as not beating the air; ²⁷ but I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.
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1 Peter 2:11LSB
Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against the soul.
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1 Peter 5:8-10LSB
⁸ Be of sober spirit, be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. ⁹ But resist him, firm in the faith, knowing that the same experiences of suffering are being accomplished among your brethren who are in the world. ¹⁰ And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself restore, strengthen, confirm, and ground you.
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1 Thessalonians 4:3-7LSB
³ For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; ⁴ that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor. ⁵ not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God; ⁶ and that no man transgress and defraud his brother in the matter because the Lord is the avenger in all these things, just as we also told you before and solemnly warned you. ⁷ For God did not call us to impurity, but in sanctification.
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2 Timothy 2:22LSB
Now flee from youthful lusts and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
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Colossians 3:5LSB
Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.
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Ephesians 5:3-4LSB
³ But sexual immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints; ⁴ nor filthiness and foolish talk, or coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks.
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Ephesians 6:11-18LSB
¹¹ Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil. ¹² For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. ¹³ Therefore, take up the full armor of God, so that you will be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm. ¹⁴ Stand firm therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, ¹⁵ and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace. ¹⁶ In addition to all, having taken up the shield of faith with which you will be able to extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one, ¹⁷ also receive the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, ¹⁸ praying at all times with all prayer and petition in the Spirit, and to this end, being on the alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints,
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Galatians 5:16-17LSB
¹⁶ But I say, walk by the Spirit and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh. ¹⁷ For the flesh sets its desire against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are in opposition to one another, so that you do not do the things that you want.
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Galatians 6:1LSB
Brothers, even if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, each of you looking to yourself, so that you too will not be tempted.
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Hebrews 13:5-6LSB
⁵ Make sure that your way of life is free from the love of money, being content with what you have; for
He Himself has said, “I WILL NEVER DESERT YOU, NOR WILL I EVER FORSAKE YOU,” ⁶ so that we
confidently say, “THE LORD IS MY HELPER, I WILL NOT BE AFRAID. WHAT WILL MAN DO TO ME?” -
James 1:12LSB
Blessed is a man who perseveres under trial; for once he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.
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James 1:13-15LSB
¹³ Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil, and He Himself does not tempt anyone. ¹⁴ But each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by his own lust. ¹⁵ Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is fully matured, it brings forth death.
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James 1:22LSB
But become doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves.
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James 4:7LSB
Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
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John 14:15LSB
If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
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Luke 4:1-2LSB
¹ Now Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was being led around by the Spirit in the wilderness ² for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And He ate nothing during those days, and when they had finished, He was hungry.
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Matthew 26:41LSB
Keep watching and praying that you may not enter into temptation; the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.
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Matthew 5:29-30LSB
²⁹ But if your right eye makes you stumble, tear it out and throw it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. ³⁰ And if your right hand makes you stumble, cut it off and throw it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to go into hell.
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Romans 12:1-2LSB
¹ Therefore I exhort you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice—living, holy, and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. ² And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may approve what the will of God is, that which is good and pleasing and perfect.
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Romans 13:13-14LSB
¹³ Let us walk properly as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and sensuality, not in strife and jealousy. ¹⁴ But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts.
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Romans 6:12-14LSB
¹² Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, ¹³ and do not go on presenting your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. ¹⁴ For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.