Ephesians 6:12

New American Bible - revised edition

For our struggle is not with flesh and blood but with the principalities, with the powers, with the world rulers of this present darkness, with the evil spirits in the heavens.

Cross References

Job 2:2

The Lord said to the satan, “Where have you been?” Then the satan answered the Lord and said, “Roaming the earth and patrolling it.”

Matthew 16:17

Jesus said to him in reply, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah. For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my heavenly Father.

Mark 4:19

but worldly anxiety, the lure of riches, and the craving for other things intrude and choke the word, and it bears no fruit.

Luke 13:24

“Strive to enter through the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will attempt to enter but will not be strong enough.

Luke 22:53

Day after day I was with you in the temple area, and you did not seize me; but this is your hour, the time for the power of darkness.” Peter’s Denial of Jesus.

John 12:31

Now is the time of judgment on this world; now the ruler of this world will be driven out.

John 14:30

I will no longer speak much with you, for the ruler of the world is coming. He has no power over me,

John 16:11

condemnation, because the ruler of this world has been condemned.

Acts 26:18

to open their eyes that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may obtain forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who have been consecrated by faith in me.’

Romans 8:38

For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor present things, nor future things, nor powers,

1 Corinthians 15:50

This I declare, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does corruption inherit incorruption.

2 Corinthians 11:14

And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.

2 Corinthians 4:4

in whose case the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, so that they may not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

Galatians 1:16

to reveal his Son to me, so that I might proclaim him to the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult flesh and blood,

Ephesians 1:21

far above every principality, authority, power, and dominion, and every name that is named not only in this age but also in the one to come.

Ephesians 1:3

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavens,

Ephesians 2:2

in which you once lived following the age of this world, following the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the disobedient.

Ephesians 3:10

so that the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known through the church to the principalities and authorities in the heavens.

Colossians 1:13

He delivered us from the power of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son,

Colossians 2:15

despoiling the principalities and the powers, he made a public spectacle of them, leading them away in triumph by it. Practices Contrary to Faith.

2 Timothy 2:5

Similarly, an athlete cannot receive the winner’s crown except by competing according to the rules.

Hebrews 12:1

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us rid ourselves of every burden and sin that clings to us and persevere in running the race that lies before us

Hebrews 12:4

In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood.

1 Peter 3:22

who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers subject to him.