2 Corinthians 10:5

These weapons demolish arguments and every proud thing raised against the knowledge of God, taking every thought captive to obey Christ. The gospel conquers the mind and will.

Cross-references · 40

• Heb 4:12For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
• Isa 55:7Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will freely pardon.
• 1 Pet 1:14–15as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,
• Rom 7:23but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.
• Matt 15:19For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.
• Rom 1:21Because, knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.
• Jer 4:14Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?
• 1 Cor 3:19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”
• Ps 139:2You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.
• Isa 2:11–12The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the haughtiness of men will be bowed down, and Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.
• 1 Cor 1:19For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing.”
• Prov 15:26Yahweh detests the thoughts of the wicked, but the thoughts of the pure are pleasing.
• Matt 11:29–30Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.
• Ps 10:4The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.
• Heb 5:9Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,
• 1 Pet 1:22Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:
• 1 Cor 1:27–29but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong;
• Ezek 17:24All the trees of the field will know that I, Yahweh, have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish. I, Yahweh, have spoken and have done it.’”
• Prov 24:9The schemes of folly are sin. The mocker is detested by men.
• Phil 3:4–9though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has confidence in the flesh, I yet more:
• 2 Th 2:8Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will kill with the breath of his mouth, and destroy by the manifestation of his coming;
• Deut 15:9Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand”; and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.
• Luke 1:51He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
• Isa 2:17The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; and Yahweh alone shall be exalted in that day.
• Isa 59:7Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. desolation and destruction are in their paths.
• 2 Cor 9:13seeing that through the proof given by this service, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the Good News of Christ, and for the liberality of your contribution to them and to all;
• 2 Th 2:4he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped; so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God.
• Dan 4:37Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.
• Rom 16:26—
• 2 Kgs 19:22Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel!
• Isa 60:14The sons of those who afflicted you will come bowing to you; and all those who despised you will bow themselves down at the soles of your feet. They will call you Yahweh’s City, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
• 2 Kgs 19:28Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.’
• Rom 1:5through whom we received grace and apostleship, for obedience of faith among all the nations, for his name’s sake;
• 1 Pet 1:2according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.
• Acts 4:25–26who by the mouth of your servant, David, said, ‘Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
• Dan 5:23–30but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your concubines, have drunk wine from them; and you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which don’t see, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not glorified.
• Exod 9:16–17but indeed for this cause I have made you stand: to show you my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth;
• Job 40:11–12Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low.
• Ps 18:27For you will save the afflicted people, but the haughty eyes you will bring down.
• Acts 9:4–6He fell on the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”

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