Bible verses about "strongholds" | MNT

¹⁴ "For if you forgive men their offenses against you, your heavenly Father will forgive you also; ¹⁵ "but if you do not forgive men your offenses, neither will your heavenly Father forgive you your offenses.

⁶ Jesus answered him. "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No man ever comes to the Father but by me.

³⁴ "In solemn truth I tell you," Jesus replied, "every one who commits sin is a slave

¹⁹ Do you not know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is within you, the Spirit whom you have from God? ²⁰ You are not your own; for you have been bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your bodies.

¹⁶ So confess your sins one to another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. For the fervent prayer of a righteous man is mighty in its working.

¹ Now faith is the title-deed of things hoped for; the putting to the proof of things not seen.

⁹ But if we confess our sins, faithful is he and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all wrong-doing.

⁵ and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has loosed us from our sins in his own blood;

¹² For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the despotisms, the empires, the rulers of this present darkness, the spirit-hosts of evil in the heavenly realm.

¹ Do not believe every spirit, beloved, but test the spirits to see whether they are of God; for many false prophets are gone out into the world.

¹ Finally then, my brothers, I continue to beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as you learned of me how to walk so as to please God—and you are actually doing so—that you abound in it yet more and more. ² For you know what charges I laid upon you through the Lord Jesus. ³ For this is God's will, even your sanctification; that you should abstain from sexual vice. ⁴ That each one should learn how to take a wife in purity and honor. ⁵ Not in the passion of lust, like the Gentiles who know not God. ⁶ That no man overreach or take advantage of his brother in such matters, because "the Lord takes vengeance" in all these things, as also I repeatedly forewarned you and testified to you. ⁷ For God has not called us for uncleanness, but in holiness. ⁸ So that he who rejects this is not rejecting man, but the God who gave you his Holy Spirit. ⁹ It is not needed that I should write to you about brotherly love; for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another. ¹⁰ As indeed you do love all the brothers in Macedonia. But I exhort you, brothers, to abound in this yet more. ¹¹ Also, that you endeavor to live quietly and to mind your own business, and to work with your hands (as I charged you). ¹² So that your conduct may be seemly toward those that are without, and that you may not need help from any man. ¹³ But I would not have you ignorant, brothers, about those who are falling asleep. You must not sorrow like other men, who have no hope. ¹⁴ For if we really believe that Jesus died and rose again, so even so will God through Jesus bring with him those also who have fallen asleep. ¹⁵ For this I tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are living, who survive unto the coming of the Lord, will in no wise precede those who have fallen asleep. ¹⁶ For the Lord himself with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God will descend from heaven. Then the dead in Christ will rise first. ¹⁷ And afterwards we who are alive, who remain, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we ever be with the Lord. ¹⁸ So comfort one another with these words.

¹³ No temptation has overtaken you that is beyond man's power; but God is faithful, who will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear, but will, with every temptation, provide the way of escape also, so that you may be able to withstand.

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

¹³ Therefore take up the panoply of God, so that when the evil day comes you may be able to withstand them, and having overthrown them all, to stand your ground. ¹⁴ Stand firm then, girt about with the belt of truth, and wearing the breastplate of righteousness, ¹⁵ and having your feet shod with the stability of the gospel of peace. ¹⁶ And take up to cover you the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the flaming darts of the Evil One. ¹⁷ Take likewise the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. ¹⁸ Continue to pray at all times, with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching for it with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;

⁴ for the weapons of my warfare are not weapons of the flesh, but mighty for God, in pulling down all fortresses.

³ Though I do walk on the low level of the flesh, I do not make war as the flesh does; ⁴ for the weapons of my warfare are not weapons of the flesh, but mighty for God, in pulling down all fortresses. ⁵ For I pull down imaginations and every crag that lifts itself against the knowledge of God. And I carry every thought away into captivity and subjection to Christ;