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  • 新标点和合本 - 我们争战的兵器本不是属血气的,乃是在 神面前有能力,可以攻破坚固的营垒,
  • 和合本2010(上帝版-简体) - 因为我们争战的兵器本不是属血气的,而是凭着上帝的能力,能够攻破坚固的营垒。我们攻破各样的计谋,
  • 和合本2010(神版-简体) - 因为我们争战的兵器本不是属血气的,而是凭着 神的能力,能够攻破坚固的营垒。我们攻破各样的计谋,
  • 当代译本 - 我们争战的兵器不是属血气的,而是从上帝而来的能力,可以摧毁坚固的营垒,
  • 圣经新译本 - 因为我们作战所用的兵器,不是属于这世界的,而是在 神面前有能力的,可以攻陷坚固的堡垒,
  • 中文标准译本 - 因为我们争战所用的兵器不是属肉体的,而是有属神的能力,可以拆毁堡垒——拆毁各样的心思,
  • 现代标点和合本 - 我们争战的兵器本不是属血气的,乃是在神面前有能力,可以攻破坚固的营垒,
  • 和合本(拼音版) - 我们争战的兵器,本不是属血气的,乃是在上帝面前有能力,可以攻破坚固的营垒,
  • New International Version - The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.
  • New International Reader's Version - The weapons I fight with are not the weapons the world uses. In fact, it is just the opposite. My weapons have the power of God to destroy the camps of the enemy.
  • English Standard Version - For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds.
  • New Living Translation - We use God’s mighty weapons, not worldly weapons, to knock down the strongholds of human reasoning and to destroy false arguments.
  • Christian Standard Bible - since the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but are powerful through God for the demolition of strongholds. We demolish arguments
  • New American Standard Bible - for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses.
  • New King James Version - For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds,
  • Amplified Bible - The weapons of our warfare are not physical [weapons of flesh and blood]. Our weapons are divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses.
  • American Standard Version - (for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the casting down of strongholds);
  • King James Version - (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
  • New English Translation - for the weapons of our warfare are not human weapons, but are made powerful by God for tearing down strongholds. We tear down arguments
  • World English Bible - for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds,
  • 新標點和合本 - 我們爭戰的兵器本不是屬血氣的,乃是在神面前有能力,可以攻破堅固的營壘,
  • 和合本2010(上帝版-繁體) - 因為我們爭戰的兵器本不是屬血氣的,而是憑着上帝的能力,能夠攻破堅固的營壘。我們攻破各樣的計謀,
  • 和合本2010(神版-繁體) - 因為我們爭戰的兵器本不是屬血氣的,而是憑着 神的能力,能夠攻破堅固的營壘。我們攻破各樣的計謀,
  • 當代譯本 - 我們爭戰的兵器不是屬血氣的,而是從上帝而來的能力,可以摧毀堅固的營壘,
  • 聖經新譯本 - 因為我們作戰所用的兵器,不是屬於這世界的,而是在 神面前有能力的,可以攻陷堅固的堡壘,
  • 呂振中譯本 - 我們交戰的武器並不是屬肉體的,乃是有屬神之能力的;能夠攻倒堅固的營壘,
  • 中文標準譯本 - 因為我們爭戰所用的兵器不是屬肉體的,而是有屬神的能力,可以拆毀堡壘——拆毀各樣的心思,
  • 現代標點和合本 - 我們爭戰的兵器本不是屬血氣的,乃是在神面前有能力,可以攻破堅固的營壘,
  • 文理和合譯本 - 蓋我之戰具、非屬血氣、乃上帝視為有能、破諸堅壘、
  • 文理委辦譯本 - 蓋余用兵、非任血氣、乃託上帝有能、破諸堅壘、
  • 施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 蓋我儕之戰具、非屬血氣、乃賴天主、有力能破諸堅壘、
  • 吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 因吾人作戰之武器、非屬形而下者、顧賴主之力其效能則足以掃蕩一切險固之壁壘。
  • Nueva Versión Internacional - Las armas con que luchamos no son del mundo, sino que tienen el poder divino para derribar fortalezas.
  • 현대인의 성경 - 우리의 무기는 육적인 것이 아니라 마귀의 요새라도 파괴할 수 있는 하나님의 강력한 무기입니다.
  • Новый Русский Перевод - Мы сражаемся не обычным оружием, но оружием Бога, которое способно разрушить самые неприступные духовные твердыни. Мы опровергаем доводы
  • Восточный перевод - Мы сражаемся не обычным оружием, которое используется в этом мире, но оружием Всевышнего, которое способно разрушить самые неприступные духовные твердыни. Мы опровергаем ложные доводы
  • Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Мы сражаемся не обычным оружием, которое используется в этом мире, но оружием Всевышнего, которое способно разрушить самые неприступные духовные твердыни. Мы опровергаем ложные доводы
  • Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Мы сражаемся не обычным оружием, которое используется в этом мире, но оружием Всевышнего, которое способно разрушить самые неприступные духовные твердыни. Мы опровергаем ложные доводы
  • La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Car les armes avec lesquelles nous combattons ne sont pas simplement humaines ; elles tiennent leur puissance de Dieu qui les rend capables de renverser des forteresses. Oui, nous renversons les faux raisonnements
  • リビングバイブル - 悪魔の要塞を打ち破るために、人間の手によらない神の強力な武器を使います。
  • Nestle Aland 28 - τὰ γὰρ ὅπλα τῆς στρατείας ἡμῶν οὐ σαρκικὰ ἀλλὰ δυνατὰ τῷ θεῷ πρὸς καθαίρεσιν ὀχυρωμάτων, λογισμοὺς καθαιροῦντες
  • unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - τὰ γὰρ ὅπλα τῆς στρατείας ἡμῶν οὐ σαρκικὰ, ἀλλὰ δυνατὰ τῷ Θεῷ πρὸς καθαίρεσιν ὀχυρωμάτων, λογισμοὺς καθαιροῦντες,
  • Nova Versão Internacional - As armas com as quais lutamos não são humanas ; ao contrário, são poderosas em Deus para destruir fortalezas.
  • Hoffnung für alle - Ich setze nicht die Waffen dieser Welt ein, sondern die Waffen Gottes. Sie sind mächtig genug, jede Festung zu zerstören, jedes menschliche Gedankengebäude niederzureißen,
  • Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Khí giới chiến đấu của chúng tôi không do loài người chế tạo, nhưng là vũ khí vô địch của Đức Chúa Trời san bằng mọi chiến luỹ kiên cố,
  • พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - อาวุธที่เราใช้ต่อสู้ไม่ใช่อาวุธของโลก แต่เป็นอาวุธที่เปี่ยมด้วยฤทธิ์อำนาจของพระเจ้าสามารถทำลายล้างที่มั่นต่างๆ ได้
  • พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - เพราะ​อาวุธ​ที่​เรา​ใช้​ใน​การ​สู้รบ​ไม่​ใช่​อาวุธ​แบบ​โลก แต่​เป็น​ฤทธานุภาพ​ของ​พระ​เจ้า​เพื่อ​ทำลาย​ที่​มั่น​อัน​แข็ง​แกร่ง​ของ​ศัตรู
Cross Reference
  • 1 Corinthians 1:18 - The Message that points to Christ on the Cross seems like sheer silliness to those hellbent on destruction, but for those on the way of salvation it makes perfect sense. This is the way God works, and most powerfully as it turns out. It’s written, I’ll turn conventional wisdom on its head, I’ll expose so-called experts as shams. So where can you find someone truly wise, truly educated, truly intelligent in this day and age? Hasn’t God exposed it all as pretentious nonsense? Since the world in all its fancy wisdom never had a clue when it came to knowing God, God in his wisdom took delight in using what the world considered stupid—preaching, of all things!—to bring those who trust him into the way of salvation.
  • 1 Corinthians 1:22 - While Jews clamor for miraculous demonstrations and Greeks go in for philosophical wisdom, we go right on proclaiming Christ, the Crucified. Jews treat this like an anti-miracle—and Greeks pass it off as absurd. But to us who are personally called by God himself—both Jews and Greeks—Christ is God’s ultimate miracle and wisdom all wrapped up in one. Human wisdom is so cheap, so impotent, next to the seeming absurdity of God. Human strength can’t begin to compete with God’s “weakness.”
  • 2 Corinthians 13:10 - I’m writing this to you now so that when I come I won’t have to say another word on the subject. The authority the Master gave me is for putting people together, not taking them apart. I want to get on with it, and not have to spend time on reprimands. * * *
  • Isaiah 41:14 - “Do you feel like a lowly worm, Jacob? Don’t be afraid. Feel like a fragile insect, Israel? I’ll help you. I, God, want to reassure you. The God who buys you back, The Holy of Israel. I’m transforming you from worm to harrow, from insect to iron. As a sharp-toothed harrow you’ll smooth out the mountains, turn those tough old hills into loamy soil. You’ll open the rough ground to the weather, to the blasts of sun and wind and rain. But you’ll be confident and exuberant, expansive in The Holy of Israel!
  • Judges 7:13 - Gideon arrived just in time to hear a man tell his friend a dream. He said, “I had this dream: A loaf of barley bread tumbled into the Midianite camp. It came to the tent and hit it so hard it collapsed. The tent fell!”
  • Judges 7:14 - His friend said, “This has to be the sword of Gideon son of Joash, the Israelite! God has turned Midian—the whole camp!—over to him.”
  • Judges 7:15 - When Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its interpretation, he dropped to his knees before God in prayer. Then he went back to the Israelite camp and said, “Get up and get going! God has just given us the Midianite army!”
  • Judges 7:16 - He divided the three hundred men into three companies. He gave each man a trumpet and an empty jar, with a torch in the jar. He said, “Watch me and do what I do. When I get to the edge of the camp, do exactly what I do. When I and those with me blow the trumpets, you also, all around the camp, blow your trumpets and shout, ‘For God and for Gideon!’”
  • Judges 7:19 - Gideon and his hundred men got to the edge of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just after the sentries had been posted. They blew the trumpets, at the same time smashing the jars they carried. All three companies blew the trumpets and broke the jars. They held the torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands, ready to blow, and shouted, “A sword for God and for Gideon!” They were stationed all around the camp, each man at his post. The whole Midianite camp jumped to its feet. They yelled and fled. When the three hundred blew the trumpets, God aimed each Midianite’s sword against his companion, all over the camp. They ran for their lives—to Beth Shittah, toward Zererah, to the border of Abel Meholah near Tabbath.
  • Judges 7:23 - Israelites rallied from Naphtali, from Asher, and from all over Manasseh. They had Midian on the run.
  • Judges 15:14 - As he approached Lehi, the Philistines came to meet him, shouting in triumph. And then the Spirit of God came on him with great power. The ropes on his arms fell apart like flax on fire; the strips of leather slipped off his hands. He spotted a fresh donkey jawbone, reached down and grabbed it, and with it killed the whole company. And Samson said, With a donkey’s jawbone I made heaps of donkeys of them. With a donkey’s jawbone I killed an entire company.
  • Hebrews 11:30 - By faith, the Israelites marched around the walls of Jericho for seven days, and the walls fell flat.
  • Joshua 6:20 - The priests blew the trumpets. When the people heard the blast of the trumpets, they gave a thunderclap shout. The wall fell at once. The people rushed straight into the city and took it.
  • Hebrews 11:32 - I could go on and on, but I’ve run out of time. There are so many more—Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, the prophets. . . . Through acts of faith, they toppled kingdoms, made justice work, took the promises for themselves. They were protected from lions, fires, and sword thrusts, turned disadvantage to advantage, won battles, routed alien armies. Women received their loved ones back from the dead. There were those who, under torture, refused to give in and go free, preferring something better: resurrection. Others braved abuse and whips, and, yes, chains and dungeons. We have stories of those who were stoned, sawed in two, murdered in cold blood; stories of vagrants wandering the earth in animal skins, homeless, friendless, powerless—the world didn’t deserve them!—making their way as best they could on the cruel edges of the world.
  • 2 Corinthians 4:7 - If you only look at us, you might well miss the brightness. We carry this precious Message around in the unadorned clay pots of our ordinary lives. That’s to prevent anyone from confusing God’s incomparable power with us. As it is, there’s not much chance of that. You know for yourselves that we’re not much to look at. We’ve been surrounded and battered by troubles, but we’re not demoralized; we’re not sure what to do, but we know that God knows what to do; we’ve been spiritually terrorized, but God hasn’t left our side; we’ve been thrown down, but we haven’t broken. What they did to Jesus, they do to us—trial and torture, mockery and murder; what Jesus did among them, he does in us—he lives! Our lives are at constant risk for Jesus’ sake, which makes Jesus’ life all the more evident in us. While we’re going through the worst, you’re getting in on the best!
  • 1 Samuel 17:45 - David answered, “You come at me with sword and spear and battle-ax. I come at you in the name of God-of-the-Angel-Armies, the God of Israel’s troops, whom you curse and mock. This very day God is handing you over to me. I’m about to kill you, cut off your head, and serve up your body and the bodies of your Philistine buddies to the crows and coyotes. The whole earth will know that there’s an extraordinary God in Israel. And everyone gathered here will learn that God doesn’t save by means of sword or spear. The battle belongs to God—he’s handing you to us on a platter!”
  • 1 Samuel 17:48 - That roused the Philistine, and he started toward David. David took off from the front line, running toward the Philistine. David reached into his pocket for a stone, slung it, and hit the Philistine hard in the forehead, embedding the stone deeply. The Philistine crashed, facedown in the dirt.
  • 1 Samuel 17:50 - That’s how David beat the Philistine—with a sling and a stone. He hit him and killed him. No sword for David!
  • Ephesians 6:13 - Be prepared. You’re up against far more than you can handle on your own. Take all the help you can get, every weapon God has issued, so that when it’s all over but the shouting you’ll still be on your feet. Truth, righteousness, peace, faith, and salvation are more than words. Learn how to apply them. You’ll need them throughout your life. God’s Word is an indispensable weapon. In the same way, prayer is essential in this ongoing warfare. Pray hard and long. Pray for your brothers and sisters. Keep your eyes open. Keep each other’s spirits up so that no one falls behind or drops out.
Parallel VersesCross Reference
  • 新标点和合本 - 我们争战的兵器本不是属血气的,乃是在 神面前有能力,可以攻破坚固的营垒,
  • 和合本2010(上帝版-简体) - 因为我们争战的兵器本不是属血气的,而是凭着上帝的能力,能够攻破坚固的营垒。我们攻破各样的计谋,
  • 和合本2010(神版-简体) - 因为我们争战的兵器本不是属血气的,而是凭着 神的能力,能够攻破坚固的营垒。我们攻破各样的计谋,
  • 当代译本 - 我们争战的兵器不是属血气的,而是从上帝而来的能力,可以摧毁坚固的营垒,
  • 圣经新译本 - 因为我们作战所用的兵器,不是属于这世界的,而是在 神面前有能力的,可以攻陷坚固的堡垒,
  • 中文标准译本 - 因为我们争战所用的兵器不是属肉体的,而是有属神的能力,可以拆毁堡垒——拆毁各样的心思,
  • 现代标点和合本 - 我们争战的兵器本不是属血气的,乃是在神面前有能力,可以攻破坚固的营垒,
  • 和合本(拼音版) - 我们争战的兵器,本不是属血气的,乃是在上帝面前有能力,可以攻破坚固的营垒,
  • New International Version - The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.
  • New International Reader's Version - The weapons I fight with are not the weapons the world uses. In fact, it is just the opposite. My weapons have the power of God to destroy the camps of the enemy.
  • English Standard Version - For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds.
  • New Living Translation - We use God’s mighty weapons, not worldly weapons, to knock down the strongholds of human reasoning and to destroy false arguments.
  • Christian Standard Bible - since the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but are powerful through God for the demolition of strongholds. We demolish arguments
  • New American Standard Bible - for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses.
  • New King James Version - For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds,
  • Amplified Bible - The weapons of our warfare are not physical [weapons of flesh and blood]. Our weapons are divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses.
  • American Standard Version - (for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the casting down of strongholds);
  • King James Version - (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
  • New English Translation - for the weapons of our warfare are not human weapons, but are made powerful by God for tearing down strongholds. We tear down arguments
  • World English Bible - for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds,
  • 新標點和合本 - 我們爭戰的兵器本不是屬血氣的,乃是在神面前有能力,可以攻破堅固的營壘,
  • 和合本2010(上帝版-繁體) - 因為我們爭戰的兵器本不是屬血氣的,而是憑着上帝的能力,能夠攻破堅固的營壘。我們攻破各樣的計謀,
  • 和合本2010(神版-繁體) - 因為我們爭戰的兵器本不是屬血氣的,而是憑着 神的能力,能夠攻破堅固的營壘。我們攻破各樣的計謀,
  • 當代譯本 - 我們爭戰的兵器不是屬血氣的,而是從上帝而來的能力,可以摧毀堅固的營壘,
  • 聖經新譯本 - 因為我們作戰所用的兵器,不是屬於這世界的,而是在 神面前有能力的,可以攻陷堅固的堡壘,
  • 呂振中譯本 - 我們交戰的武器並不是屬肉體的,乃是有屬神之能力的;能夠攻倒堅固的營壘,
  • 中文標準譯本 - 因為我們爭戰所用的兵器不是屬肉體的,而是有屬神的能力,可以拆毀堡壘——拆毀各樣的心思,
  • 現代標點和合本 - 我們爭戰的兵器本不是屬血氣的,乃是在神面前有能力,可以攻破堅固的營壘,
  • 文理和合譯本 - 蓋我之戰具、非屬血氣、乃上帝視為有能、破諸堅壘、
  • 文理委辦譯本 - 蓋余用兵、非任血氣、乃託上帝有能、破諸堅壘、
  • 施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 蓋我儕之戰具、非屬血氣、乃賴天主、有力能破諸堅壘、
  • 吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 因吾人作戰之武器、非屬形而下者、顧賴主之力其效能則足以掃蕩一切險固之壁壘。
  • Nueva Versión Internacional - Las armas con que luchamos no son del mundo, sino que tienen el poder divino para derribar fortalezas.
  • 현대인의 성경 - 우리의 무기는 육적인 것이 아니라 마귀의 요새라도 파괴할 수 있는 하나님의 강력한 무기입니다.
  • Новый Русский Перевод - Мы сражаемся не обычным оружием, но оружием Бога, которое способно разрушить самые неприступные духовные твердыни. Мы опровергаем доводы
  • Восточный перевод - Мы сражаемся не обычным оружием, которое используется в этом мире, но оружием Всевышнего, которое способно разрушить самые неприступные духовные твердыни. Мы опровергаем ложные доводы
  • Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Мы сражаемся не обычным оружием, которое используется в этом мире, но оружием Всевышнего, которое способно разрушить самые неприступные духовные твердыни. Мы опровергаем ложные доводы
  • Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Мы сражаемся не обычным оружием, которое используется в этом мире, но оружием Всевышнего, которое способно разрушить самые неприступные духовные твердыни. Мы опровергаем ложные доводы
  • La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Car les armes avec lesquelles nous combattons ne sont pas simplement humaines ; elles tiennent leur puissance de Dieu qui les rend capables de renverser des forteresses. Oui, nous renversons les faux raisonnements
  • リビングバイブル - 悪魔の要塞を打ち破るために、人間の手によらない神の強力な武器を使います。
  • Nestle Aland 28 - τὰ γὰρ ὅπλα τῆς στρατείας ἡμῶν οὐ σαρκικὰ ἀλλὰ δυνατὰ τῷ θεῷ πρὸς καθαίρεσιν ὀχυρωμάτων, λογισμοὺς καθαιροῦντες
  • unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - τὰ γὰρ ὅπλα τῆς στρατείας ἡμῶν οὐ σαρκικὰ, ἀλλὰ δυνατὰ τῷ Θεῷ πρὸς καθαίρεσιν ὀχυρωμάτων, λογισμοὺς καθαιροῦντες,
  • Nova Versão Internacional - As armas com as quais lutamos não são humanas ; ao contrário, são poderosas em Deus para destruir fortalezas.
  • Hoffnung für alle - Ich setze nicht die Waffen dieser Welt ein, sondern die Waffen Gottes. Sie sind mächtig genug, jede Festung zu zerstören, jedes menschliche Gedankengebäude niederzureißen,
  • Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Khí giới chiến đấu của chúng tôi không do loài người chế tạo, nhưng là vũ khí vô địch của Đức Chúa Trời san bằng mọi chiến luỹ kiên cố,
  • พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - อาวุธที่เราใช้ต่อสู้ไม่ใช่อาวุธของโลก แต่เป็นอาวุธที่เปี่ยมด้วยฤทธิ์อำนาจของพระเจ้าสามารถทำลายล้างที่มั่นต่างๆ ได้
  • พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - เพราะ​อาวุธ​ที่​เรา​ใช้​ใน​การ​สู้รบ​ไม่​ใช่​อาวุธ​แบบ​โลก แต่​เป็น​ฤทธานุภาพ​ของ​พระ​เจ้า​เพื่อ​ทำลาย​ที่​มั่น​อัน​แข็ง​แกร่ง​ของ​ศัตรู
  • 1 Corinthians 1:18 - The Message that points to Christ on the Cross seems like sheer silliness to those hellbent on destruction, but for those on the way of salvation it makes perfect sense. This is the way God works, and most powerfully as it turns out. It’s written, I’ll turn conventional wisdom on its head, I’ll expose so-called experts as shams. So where can you find someone truly wise, truly educated, truly intelligent in this day and age? Hasn’t God exposed it all as pretentious nonsense? Since the world in all its fancy wisdom never had a clue when it came to knowing God, God in his wisdom took delight in using what the world considered stupid—preaching, of all things!—to bring those who trust him into the way of salvation.
  • 1 Corinthians 1:22 - While Jews clamor for miraculous demonstrations and Greeks go in for philosophical wisdom, we go right on proclaiming Christ, the Crucified. Jews treat this like an anti-miracle—and Greeks pass it off as absurd. But to us who are personally called by God himself—both Jews and Greeks—Christ is God’s ultimate miracle and wisdom all wrapped up in one. Human wisdom is so cheap, so impotent, next to the seeming absurdity of God. Human strength can’t begin to compete with God’s “weakness.”
  • 2 Corinthians 13:10 - I’m writing this to you now so that when I come I won’t have to say another word on the subject. The authority the Master gave me is for putting people together, not taking them apart. I want to get on with it, and not have to spend time on reprimands. * * *
  • Isaiah 41:14 - “Do you feel like a lowly worm, Jacob? Don’t be afraid. Feel like a fragile insect, Israel? I’ll help you. I, God, want to reassure you. The God who buys you back, The Holy of Israel. I’m transforming you from worm to harrow, from insect to iron. As a sharp-toothed harrow you’ll smooth out the mountains, turn those tough old hills into loamy soil. You’ll open the rough ground to the weather, to the blasts of sun and wind and rain. But you’ll be confident and exuberant, expansive in The Holy of Israel!
  • Judges 7:13 - Gideon arrived just in time to hear a man tell his friend a dream. He said, “I had this dream: A loaf of barley bread tumbled into the Midianite camp. It came to the tent and hit it so hard it collapsed. The tent fell!”
  • Judges 7:14 - His friend said, “This has to be the sword of Gideon son of Joash, the Israelite! God has turned Midian—the whole camp!—over to him.”
  • Judges 7:15 - When Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its interpretation, he dropped to his knees before God in prayer. Then he went back to the Israelite camp and said, “Get up and get going! God has just given us the Midianite army!”
  • Judges 7:16 - He divided the three hundred men into three companies. He gave each man a trumpet and an empty jar, with a torch in the jar. He said, “Watch me and do what I do. When I get to the edge of the camp, do exactly what I do. When I and those with me blow the trumpets, you also, all around the camp, blow your trumpets and shout, ‘For God and for Gideon!’”
  • Judges 7:19 - Gideon and his hundred men got to the edge of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just after the sentries had been posted. They blew the trumpets, at the same time smashing the jars they carried. All three companies blew the trumpets and broke the jars. They held the torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands, ready to blow, and shouted, “A sword for God and for Gideon!” They were stationed all around the camp, each man at his post. The whole Midianite camp jumped to its feet. They yelled and fled. When the three hundred blew the trumpets, God aimed each Midianite’s sword against his companion, all over the camp. They ran for their lives—to Beth Shittah, toward Zererah, to the border of Abel Meholah near Tabbath.
  • Judges 7:23 - Israelites rallied from Naphtali, from Asher, and from all over Manasseh. They had Midian on the run.
  • Judges 15:14 - As he approached Lehi, the Philistines came to meet him, shouting in triumph. And then the Spirit of God came on him with great power. The ropes on his arms fell apart like flax on fire; the strips of leather slipped off his hands. He spotted a fresh donkey jawbone, reached down and grabbed it, and with it killed the whole company. And Samson said, With a donkey’s jawbone I made heaps of donkeys of them. With a donkey’s jawbone I killed an entire company.
  • Hebrews 11:30 - By faith, the Israelites marched around the walls of Jericho for seven days, and the walls fell flat.
  • Joshua 6:20 - The priests blew the trumpets. When the people heard the blast of the trumpets, they gave a thunderclap shout. The wall fell at once. The people rushed straight into the city and took it.
  • Hebrews 11:32 - I could go on and on, but I’ve run out of time. There are so many more—Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, the prophets. . . . Through acts of faith, they toppled kingdoms, made justice work, took the promises for themselves. They were protected from lions, fires, and sword thrusts, turned disadvantage to advantage, won battles, routed alien armies. Women received their loved ones back from the dead. There were those who, under torture, refused to give in and go free, preferring something better: resurrection. Others braved abuse and whips, and, yes, chains and dungeons. We have stories of those who were stoned, sawed in two, murdered in cold blood; stories of vagrants wandering the earth in animal skins, homeless, friendless, powerless—the world didn’t deserve them!—making their way as best they could on the cruel edges of the world.
  • 2 Corinthians 4:7 - If you only look at us, you might well miss the brightness. We carry this precious Message around in the unadorned clay pots of our ordinary lives. That’s to prevent anyone from confusing God’s incomparable power with us. As it is, there’s not much chance of that. You know for yourselves that we’re not much to look at. We’ve been surrounded and battered by troubles, but we’re not demoralized; we’re not sure what to do, but we know that God knows what to do; we’ve been spiritually terrorized, but God hasn’t left our side; we’ve been thrown down, but we haven’t broken. What they did to Jesus, they do to us—trial and torture, mockery and murder; what Jesus did among them, he does in us—he lives! Our lives are at constant risk for Jesus’ sake, which makes Jesus’ life all the more evident in us. While we’re going through the worst, you’re getting in on the best!
  • 1 Samuel 17:45 - David answered, “You come at me with sword and spear and battle-ax. I come at you in the name of God-of-the-Angel-Armies, the God of Israel’s troops, whom you curse and mock. This very day God is handing you over to me. I’m about to kill you, cut off your head, and serve up your body and the bodies of your Philistine buddies to the crows and coyotes. The whole earth will know that there’s an extraordinary God in Israel. And everyone gathered here will learn that God doesn’t save by means of sword or spear. The battle belongs to God—he’s handing you to us on a platter!”
  • 1 Samuel 17:48 - That roused the Philistine, and he started toward David. David took off from the front line, running toward the Philistine. David reached into his pocket for a stone, slung it, and hit the Philistine hard in the forehead, embedding the stone deeply. The Philistine crashed, facedown in the dirt.
  • 1 Samuel 17:50 - That’s how David beat the Philistine—with a sling and a stone. He hit him and killed him. No sword for David!
  • Ephesians 6:13 - Be prepared. You’re up against far more than you can handle on your own. Take all the help you can get, every weapon God has issued, so that when it’s all over but the shouting you’ll still be on your feet. Truth, righteousness, peace, faith, and salvation are more than words. Learn how to apply them. You’ll need them throughout your life. God’s Word is an indispensable weapon. In the same way, prayer is essential in this ongoing warfare. Pray hard and long. Pray for your brothers and sisters. Keep your eyes open. Keep each other’s spirits up so that no one falls behind or drops out.
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