Bible verses about "strongholds" | Rotherham

²⁷ Above, is the God of aforetime, And, beneath, are the Arms of the ages,––So he driveth before thee the foe, And doth say––Destroy!

² Bless, O my soul, Yahweh, And forget not all his dealings:–– ³ Who forgiveth all thine iniquity, Who healeth all thy diseases; ⁴ Who redeemeth, from destruction, thy life, Who crowneth thee, with lovingkindness and compassion:

¹ [A Song of Ascents.]
I will lift up mine eyes, unto the mountains, From whence cometh my help! ² My help, is from Yahweh, who made heavens and earth. ³ May he not suffer thy foot, to slip, May thy keeper, not slumber! ⁴ Lo! neither will slumber nor sleep, The keeper of Israel. ⁵ Yahweh, is thy keeper, Yahweh, is thy shade, on thy right hand: ⁶ By day, the sun, shall not smite, nor, the moon, by night. ⁷ Yahweh, will keep thee from all harm, He will keep thy life. ⁸ Yahweh, will keep thy going out and thy coming in, from henceforth, even unto times age–abiding.

¹⁷ No instrument formed against thee, shall prosper, And, every tongue that riseth against thee in judgment, shalt thou prove to be lawless,––This, is the inheritance of the servants of Yahweh, And, their righteousness, is, from me, Declareth Yahweh.

⁵ Yet, he, was pierced for transgressions that were ours, was crushed for iniquities that were ours,––The chastisement for our well–being, was upon him, And, by his stripes, there is healing for us.

¹⁴ For, if ye forgive men their faults, Your Father who is in the heavens, will forgive, even you; ¹⁵ But, if ye forgive not men [their faults], neither will your Father forgive, your faults.

⁶ Jesus saith unto him––I, am the way, and the truth, and the life: No one, cometh unto the Father, but through me.

³⁴ Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you: Every one who committeth sin, is, a slave, [of sin:]

¹⁹ Or know ye not that, your body, is, a shrine of the Holy Spirit that is within you, which ye have from God? And ye are not your own; –– ²⁰ For ye have been bought with a price! Therefore glorify God in your body.

¹ But faith is, of things hoped for, a confidence, of facts, a conviction, when they are not seen;

¹⁶ Be openly confessing, therefore, one to another, your sins, and be praying in each other’s behalf,––that ye may be healed. Much availeth, the supplication of a righteous man, when it is energised:

⁹ If we are confessing our sins, faithful, is he and, righteous––that he should forgive us our sins, and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

⁵ and from––Jesus Christ,––The Faithful Witness, The Firstborn of the Dead, and The Ruler of the Kings of the Earth. Unto him that loveth us, and loosed us out of our sins with his blood,––

¹² Because our struggle is not against blood and flesh, but, against the principalities, against the authorities, against the world–holders, of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenlies.

¹ Beloved! not in every spirit, believe ye, but test the spirits, whether they are, of God; because, many false prophets, have gone out into the world.

¹ For the rest, brethren, we request and exhort you, in our Lord Jesus, [that], even as ye received from us, how ye must needs walk and please God,––even as ye also do walk, that ye would abound still more. ² For ye know what charges we gave you, through the Lord Jesus. ³ For, this, is a thing willed of God, your sanctification,––that ye should abstain from unchastity, ⁴ That ye should know, each one of you, how, of his own vessel, to possess himself in sanctification and honour: ⁵ Not with a passion of coveting,––just as even the nations who know not God,–– ⁶ Not over–reaching and defrauding, in the matter, his brother; because, an avenger, is the Lord, concerning all these things,––even as we before told you, and solemnly called you to witness. ⁷ For God did not call us, with a permission of impurity, but, in sanctification. ⁸ Therefore, indeed, he that disregardeth––it is, not a man, he disregardeth, but God,––Who giveth his Holy Spirit unto you.
⁹ But, concerning brotherly love––no need, have ye, that we be writing unto you; for, ye yourselves, are, God–taught, to the loving of one another; –– ¹⁰ And, in fact, ye are doing it unto all the brethren [who are] in the whole of Macedonia; but we exhort you, brethren, to abound still more, ¹¹ And to be ambitious to be quiet, and to be attending to your own affairs, and to be working with your hands,––even as, unto you, we gave charge–– ¹² That ye should walk reputably toward those without, and, of no one, have, need.
¹³ But we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them who are falling asleep,––lest ye be sorrowing, even as the rest also, who are without hope; ¹⁴ For, if we believe that, Jesus, died, and rose again, so, also will, God, bring forth with him, them who have fallen asleep through Jesus; ¹⁵ For, this, unto you, do we say, by a word of the Lord,––that, we, the living who are left unto the Presence of the Lord, shall in nowise get before them who have fallen asleep; ¹⁶ Because, the Lord himself, with a word of command, with a chief–messenger’s voice, and with a trumpet of God, shall descend from heaven,––and, the dead in Christ, shall rise, first, ¹⁷ After that, we, the living who are left, together with them, shall be caught away, in clouds, to meet the Lord in the air:––and, thus, evermore, with the Lord, shall we be! ¹⁸ So then, be consoling one another with these words.

¹³ Trial, hath not taken you, save such as man can bear; faithful, moreover is God, who will not suffer you to be tried above what ye are able, but will make, with the trial, also the way of escape, that ye may be able to hold out.

² And be not configuring yourselves unto this age, but be transforming yourselves by the renewing of your mind, to the end ye may be proving what is the thing willed by God––the good and acceptable and perfect.

¹³ For this cause, take up the complete armour of God, in order that ye may receive power to withstand in the evil day, and, all things, having accomplished, to stand! ¹⁴ Stand therefore,––having girded your loins with truth, and put on the breastplate of righteousness, ¹⁵ And shod your feet with the readiness of the glad–message of peace; ¹⁶ With all, having taken up the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall have power, all the ignited darts of the wicked one, to quench; ¹⁷ And, the helmet of salvation, welcome ye, and the sword of the spirit, which is what God hath spoken, ¹⁸ With all prayer and supplication, praying in every season, in spirit, and, thereunto, watching, with all perseverance and supplication, for all the saints,––

⁴ For, the weapons of our warfare, are not fleshly, but mighty, by God, unto a pulling down of strongholds,––

³ For, though, in flesh, we walk, not, according to flesh, do we war,–– ⁴ For, the weapons of our warfare, are not fleshly, but mighty, by God, unto a pulling down of strongholds,–– ⁵ When we pull down, calculations, and every height that uplifteth itself against the knowledge of God, and when we bring into captivity every thought unto the obedience of the Christ,