Bible verses about "battlefield of the mind" | Riverside

¹ JESUS, full of the Holy Spirit, turned back from the Jordan and was led about in the Spirit in the wilderness ² forty days while being tempted by the Devil. During those days he ate nothing, and when they were ended he was hungry. ³ The Devil said to him, "If you are God's Son, tell this stone to become a loaf of bread." ⁴ Jesus answered him, "It is written, 'Man shall not live on bread alone.' " ⁵ The Devil led him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time, ⁶ and said to him, "To you I will give all this power and glory, for it has been handed over to me and I give it to whomever I will. ⁷ If you do homage before me, all shall be yours." ⁸ Jesus answered him, "It is written, 'Thou shalt do homage to the Lord thy God and him alone shalt thou worship.' " ⁹ The Devil took him to Jerusalem and placed him on the roof of the Temple, and said to him, "If you are God's Son, throw yourself down, ¹⁰ for it is written, 'He will command his angels to guard you,' ¹¹ and, 'On their hands they will bear you up, so that you shall not strike your foot against a stone.' " ¹² Jesus answered him, "It has been said, 'Thou shalt not try the Lord thy God.' " ¹³ After exhausting every kind of temptation, the Devil went away from him till a better opportunity.

²⁴ He said again to them, "Be careful what you hear. With the measure that you measure with, it will be measured to you, and more will be given you.

³² and you will know the truth and the truth will make you free."

¹³ for if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the practices of the body, you will live.

³⁷ On the contrary, in all these we more than conquer through him who loved us.

¹ THERE is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. ² For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has freed you from the Law of sin and death. ³ For, what was impossible for the Law, because it was weak through the flesh — God, sending his own Son in the form of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned the sin that is in the flesh, ⁴ so that the righteousness required by the Law might be fulfilled in us who live not according to the flesh, but according to the spirit. ⁵ For those who are living according to the flesh have their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are living according to the spirit have their minds on the things of the spirit. ⁶ Fleshly mindedness is death, but spiritual mindedness is life and peace. ⁷ Therefore fleshly mindedness is hostile to God; for it is not subject to the Law of God, nor can it be. ⁸ Those who are in the flesh cannot please God. ⁹ But you are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if the Spirit of God dwells in you. If any one has not the Spirit of Christ, that man is not his. ¹⁰ If Christ is in you the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is life because of righteousness. ¹¹ If the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead gives life even to your mortal bodies, through his indwelling Spirit in you. ¹² So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh to live according to the flesh; ¹³ for if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the practices of the body, you will live. ¹⁴ For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. ¹⁵ For you did not receive a spirit of bondage leading again to fear, but you received a spirit of sonship, in which we cry, Abba, Father. ¹⁶ The Spirit itself witnesses with our spirits that we are children of God. ¹⁷ And if children, we are also heirs — heirs of God, joint heirs with Christ, since we suffer with him that we may also be glorified with him. ¹⁸ For I estimate that the sufferings of this present time amount to nothing in comparison with the glory that is to be revealed for us. ¹⁹ For the earnest expectation of the creation is waiting for the revelation of the sons of God. ²⁰ For the creation was made subject to folly not willingly, but for the sake of him who subjected it, in hope, ²¹ because the creation itself will be freed from the slavery of decay into the glorious freedom of the children of God. ²² For we know that all the creation groans in the pangs of childbirth until now. ²³ And not the creation alone, but we ourselves also who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, groan within ourselves in expectation of the sonship, the liberation of our bodies. ²⁴ For we are saved by hope; but hope that is seen is not hope, for what any one sees, why does he hope for? ²⁵ But if we hope for what we do not see, we patiently wait for it. ²⁶ Thus also the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit itself intercedes for us with sighs beyond words. ²⁷ And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because he intercedes for the holy according to the will of God. ²⁸ We know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose. ²⁹ For those whom he foreknew he also predetermined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the first-born among many brethren. ³⁰ And those whom he predetermined he also called, and those whom he called he also pronounced righteous, and those whom he pronounced righteous he also glorified. ³¹ What then shall we say to this? If God is for us, who is against us? ³² He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all, how shall he not with him graciously give us all things? ³³ Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? God pronounces them righteous. ³⁴ Who is there to condemn? Christ Jesus died, or rather was raised, and he is on the right hand of God interceding for us. ³⁵ Who shall separate us from Christ's love? Shall trial or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? ³⁶ (As it is written, "For thy sake we are killed all the day. We are counted as sheep for slaughter.") ³⁷ On the contrary, in all these we more than conquer through him who loved us. ³⁸ For I am persuaded that neither death nor life nor angels nor archangels, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, ³⁹ nor height nor depth nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from God's love in Christ Jesus our Lord.

¹³ He has saved us from the power of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of his beloved Son,

⁵ Let your lives be free from the love of money. Be content with what you have. For he has said, "I will not fail you nor will I forsake you."

⁹ No one who has been born of God commits sin, for God's life-giving germ remains in him and he cannot continue sinning, because he has been born of God.

⁴ for the weapons of our warfare are not weapons of the flesh, but powerful under God for the destruction of fortresses.

⁷ Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the Devil and he will flee from you.

¹ BELOVED, do not trust every spirit, but test the spirits whether they are from God. For many false prophets have come out into the world. ² By this we know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, ³ and no spirit that does not confess Jesus is from God. This is the spirit of Antichrist, which you have heard is coming into the world and is already in the world. ⁴ But you are of God, little children, and have conquered them, because he who is in us is greater than he who is in the world. ⁵ They belong to the world and for that reason they speak as the world speaks and the world listens to them. ⁶ We are of God. Whoever knows God listens to us: whoever is not of God does not listen to us. In this way we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error. ⁷ Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and every one who loves has been born of God and knows God. ⁸ He who does not love does not know God; for God is love. ⁹ By this the love of God to us was made plain: that God sent his only Son into the world so that we may have life through him. ¹⁰ In this is love — not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be an atoning sacrifice for our sins. ¹¹ Beloved, if God has so loved us, we ought also to love one another. ¹² No one has ever seen God. If we love one another God abides in us and his love is made perfect in us. ¹³ By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has imparted to us of his Spirit. ¹⁴ We have seen and we bear witness that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world. ¹⁵ Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him and he in God. ¹⁶ We have come to know and have put our trust in the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God and God remains in him. ¹⁷ Thus love has been made perfect with us so that we may have confidence on the day of judgment, because as God is we also are in this world. ¹⁸ There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has pain. He who fears has not been made perfect in love. ¹⁹ We love because he first loved us. ²⁰ If any one says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar. For he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. ²¹ This command we have from him, that he who loves God shall love his brother also.

⁷ For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and love and self-control.

¹² For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the arch-angels, against the authorities, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly heights.

⁶ Do not worry, but in everything by prayer and entreaty with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. ⁷ And the peace of God which passes all understanding will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus. ⁸ To conclude, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is dignified, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovable, whatever is highly spoken of — if there is any virtue or any praise — think of that.

⁵ We overthrow reasonings and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and take captive every thought into obedience to Christ

³ For although living in the flesh we do not carry on our warfare according to the flesh, ⁴ for the weapons of our warfare are not weapons of the flesh, but powerful under God for the destruction of fortresses. ⁵ We overthrow reasonings and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and take captive every thought into obedience to Christ

² Do not follow the fashions of this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your minds so as to recognize what is the good and pleasing and perfect will of God.