Bible Dictionary: War: The Contest of Saints With the Enemies of Their Salvation

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Romans 7:23
But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
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2 Corinthians 10:3
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
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Ephesians 6:12
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
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1 Timothy 1:18
This charge I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on you, that you by them might war a good warfare;
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Library

Psalm CXVIII.
... For no man falleth in the contest, except he whose strength ... did not know the inward
joy of the saints in their ... and who, when we spoke to them, made war upon us ...
/.../augustine/exposition on the book of psalms/psalm cxviii.htm

The Power of God
... The Lord is a man of war.' Exodus 15:5. He has ... Who has resisted his will?' To contest
with him, is as if ... power is an eagle's wing, to carry the saints to heaven ...
//christianbookshelf.org/watson/a body of divinity/6 the power of god.htm

Third Sunday in Lent
... Wherever there is a contest, or a battle ... miracles, pilgrimages, masses, worship of
saints, indulgencies, and so ... so much famine, pestilence, war and bloodshed to ...
//christianbookshelf.org/luther/epistle sermons vol ii/third sunday in lent.htm

Who is the Rich Man that Shall be Saved?
... his trainer, and Christ the President of the contest; and for ... good things God hath
prepared for the saints and the ... War also made on one is easily put an end to ...
/.../clement/who is the rich man that shall be saved/who is the rich man.htm

Prayer and vigilance
... is a warfare, an intense conflict, a lifelong contest. ... The cause of God, His saints,
their woes and trials ... prepared to take advantage of the fortunes of war. ...
/.../bounds/the necessity of prayer/xi prayer and vigilance.htm

Matt. xx. 17-19.
... that many excellent combatants went down to the contest, and that ... Since for this
we admire the saints also, that being ... that it is he with whom He is at war. ...
/.../chrysostom/homilies on the gospel of saint matthew/homily lxv matt xx 17-19.htm

Twenty Fourth Sunday after Trinity Prayer and Spiritual Knowledge.
... If war or other calamity results complain to him who ... to be partakers of the inheritance
of the saints in light ... and win honor and praise in the contest with the ...
/.../luther/epistle sermons vol iii/twenty fourth sunday after trinity.htm

Of Passages from the Holy Scriptures, and from the Apocrypha ...
... by sorcerers, not by false prophets, but by saints: as if ... Were the contest to be
decided by such authority (to ... With the Church we wage no war, since, with one ...
/.../calvin/the institutes of the christian religion/of passages from the holy.htm

Homilies on Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians.
... to have a portion of the Saints in Light ... Enemies, spiritual, enumerated, [1291]336;
to be talked to ... General, specially attacked in war, [1485]391; all succor him ...
/.../homilies on philippians colossians and.htm

Prosperity under Persecution
... to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join ... new name is brought in,
and the contest appears to ... Then the saints have been like clusters thrown into ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 17 1871/prosperity under persecution.htm