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With the Devil:

2 Corinthians 2:11 (NIV)
¹¹ in order that Satan might not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes.

1 Peter 5:8 (NIV)
⁸ Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.

With the Powers of Darkness:

Ephesians 6:12 (NIV)
¹² 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.

With the World Spiritual Warfare Scriptures:

John 15:18-19 (NIV)
¹⁸ "If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first.
¹⁹ If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.

1 John 2:15-17 (NIV)
¹⁵ Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
¹⁶ For everything in the world--the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does--comes not from the Father but from the world.
¹⁷ The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever.

With the Old Self Spiritual Warfare Scriptures:

Romans 6:6 (NIV)
⁶ For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin--

Romans 6:12 (NIV)
¹² Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires.

With the Sinful Nature Spiritual Warfare Scriptures:

Romans 8:5-9 (NIV)
⁵ Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.
⁶ The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace;
⁷ the sinful mind is hostile to God. It does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so.
⁸ Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God.
⁹ You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.

Galatians 5:16-25 (NIV)
¹⁶ So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature.
¹⁷ For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature. They are in conflict with each other, so that you do not do what you want.
¹⁸ But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under law.
¹⁹ The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery;
²⁰ idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions
²¹ and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.
²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
²³ gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
²⁴ Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires.
²⁵ Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.

With Sinful Desires Spiritual Warfare Scriptures:

Romans 7:15-20 (NIV)
¹⁵ I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.
¹⁶ And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good.
¹⁷ As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me.
¹⁸ I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.
¹⁹ For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do--this I keep on doing.
²⁰ Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

1 Peter 2:11 (NIV)
¹¹ Dear friends, I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires, which war against your soul.

With Death Spiritual Warfare Scriptures:

1 Corinthians 15:26 (NIV)
²⁶ The last enemy to be destroyed is death.

Hebrews 2:14-15 (NIV)
¹⁴ Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might destroy him who holds the power of death--that is, the devil--
¹⁵ and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.

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