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Ephesians 6:12
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Ephesians 6:12
12For 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.
12For wee wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darknes of this world, against ‖spirituall wickednes in ‖high places.
- Or, wicked spirits.
- Or, heauenly.
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DEFINED WORDS
Ephesians 6:12
To struggle or contend against an opponent, literally or figuratively.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Opposed to, contrary to, facing, toward, or in contact with; in some settings, exposed to or ready for a stated time.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
The soft substance of the body; also the body, human nature, kindred, or mankind.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The fluid that circulates through the body and is associated with life; in KJV usage, also life, bloodshed and its guilt, kindred, human nature, blood shed in sacrifice, or the juice of grapes.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
principalities
Dominions, ruling powers, ranks of authority, or territories governed by princes.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Persons who govern, direct, or exercise authority.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Absence of light; also obscurity, ignorance, distress, or moral evil by figure.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Pertaining to spirit or to the Holy Ghost; not merely material or carnal; or governed by the Spirit, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Raised or far above; great in height, rank, degree, or importance; as an adverb, greatly or aloft.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Locations, positions, rooms, occasions, offices, or passages, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study13Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
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Open the full verse study4In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
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Open the full verse study2Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
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Open the full verse study15And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
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Open the full verse study18To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
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Open the full verse study21Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:
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Open the full verse study38For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
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Open the full verse study25And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
26I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
27But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
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Open the full verse study10To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,
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Open the full verse study3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
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Open the full verse study50Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
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Open the full verse study22Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.
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Open the full verse study30Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.
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Open the full verse study1WHEREFORE seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
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Open the full verse study31Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.
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Open the full verse study2And the Lord said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan answered the Lord, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
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Open the full verse study11Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.
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Open the full verse study53When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness.
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Open the full verse study24¶ Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
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Open the full verse study17And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.
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Open the full verse study5And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.
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Open the full verse study4Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
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Open the full verse study16To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:
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