61 Bible Verses about Self Defense
Want to know what the Bible says about Self Defense? Here are 61 Bible verses about Self Defense from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.
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Joel 3:10 NIV
Beat your plowshares into swords
and your pruning hooks into spears.
Let the weakling say,
“I am strong!”
and your pruning hooks into spears.
Let the weakling say,
“I am strong!”
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John 15:13 NIV
Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
27
Exodus 21:24-25 NIV
24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.
27
Esther 8:11 NIV
The king’s edict granted the Jews in every city the right to assemble and protect themselves; to destroy, kill and annihilate the armed men of any nationality or province who might attack them and their women and children, and to plunder the property of their enemies.
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Proverbs 25:28 NIV
Like a city whose walls are broken through
is a person who lacks self-control.
is a person who lacks self-control.
23
Ephesians 6:12 NIV
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
23
Judges 5:8 NIV
God chose new leaders
when war came to the city gates,
but not a shield or spear was seen
among forty thousand in Israel.
when war came to the city gates,
but not a shield or spear was seen
among forty thousand in Israel.
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Nehemiah 4:13-14 NIV
13 Therefore I stationed some of the people behind the lowest points of the wall at the exposed places, posting them by families, with their swords, spears and bows. 14 After I looked things over, I stood up and said to the nobles, the officials and the rest of the people, “Don’t be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your families, your sons and your daughters, your wives and your homes.”
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Luke 3:14 NIV
Then some soldiers asked him, “And what should we do?”
He replied, “Don’t extort money and don’t accuse people falsely —be content with your pay.”
17
1 Samuel 13:19-20 NIV
19 Not a blacksmith could be found in the whole land of Israel, because the Philistines had said, “Otherwise the Hebrews will make swords or spears! ” 20 So all Israel went down to the Philistines to have their plow points, mattocks, axes and sickles sharpened.
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