Bible verses about "strongholds" | Haweis

¹⁴ For if ye forgive men their offences, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: ¹⁵ but if ye forgive not to men their offences, neither will your Father forgive your offences.

⁶ Jesus saith to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no man cometh to the Father, but by me.

³⁴ Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, That every one who committeth sin is the slave of sin.

¹⁹ Do ye not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which ye have from God, and ye are not your own? ²⁰ For ye have been bought with a price: glorify then God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

¹⁶ Confess your offences one to another, and pray for one another, that ye may be healed. The energetic prayer of a righteous man is mightily prevalent.

¹ NOW faith is the realizing confidence of the things hoped for, and the demonstration of things unseen:

⁹ If we confess our sins, faithful is he and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

⁵ and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, and first-born from the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth: to him who loved us, and washed us from our sins by his blood,

¹² For our conflict is not merely against flesh and blood, but against principalities, and against powers, and against the rulers of the darkness of this world, and against wicked spirits in the aerial regions.

¹ BELOVED, believe not every pretender to inspiration, but bring these spirits to the trial whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone forth into the world.

¹ FINALLY, brethren, we beseech you therefore, and conjure you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk, and please God, so ye would abound more and more. ² For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus. ³ For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that you should abstain from whoredom; ⁴ that every one of you may know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honour, ⁵ not in the vile passion of lewdness, as the Gentiles which know not God; ⁶ that no man transgress against, or act dishonestly to his brother in this matter because the Lord is the avenger of all such things, as we have told you before, and testified. ⁷ For God hath not called us unto impurity, but unto holiness. ⁸ Therefore he that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his Holy Spirit. ⁹ Now concerning brotherly love, I have no need to write unto you: for ye yourselves are divinely taught to love one another. ¹⁰ And indeed ye practise it towards all the brethren that are throughout Macedonia: but we conjure you, brethren, to abound more and more; ¹¹ and that you make it your study to live peaceably, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we have enjoined you; ¹² that ye walk becomingly towards those without, and need no assistance from any person. ¹³ Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are fallen asleep, that ye be not afflicted, as the rest [of mankind] who have no hope. ¹⁴ For if we believe that Jesus died, and rose again, so also those that have fallen asleep for Jesus shall God bring with him. ¹⁵ For this I say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left unto the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent those who are fallen asleep. ¹⁶ For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first: ¹⁷ then we who are alive, who remain, shall be caught up together with them into the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we be ever with the Lord. ¹⁸ Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

¹³ No temptation hath overtaken you, but what is common to men. And God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted beyond what ye are able to bear; but will with the temptation make also a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear up under it.

² And be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renovation of your mind, that you may prove by experience what is the will of God, that is good, acceptable, and perfect.

¹³ Therefore take the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all things to stand. ¹⁴ Stand therefore, girded about your loins with truth, and putting on the breastplate of righteousness; ¹⁵ and underneath your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; ¹⁶ and over all lifting up the shield of faith, with which ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. ¹⁷ And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: ¹⁸ praying at every opportunity with all prayer and supplication in Spirit, and watching for this very purpose with perseverance and intercession for all the saints;

⁴ for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God for the casting down the strong holds [of corruption];

³ For though we walk in the flesh, we war not after the flesh: ⁴ for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God for the casting down the strong holds [of corruption]; ⁵ laying low proud reasonings, and every high thing which exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and making every thought captive to the obedience of Christ: