Ephesians 6:16

Above all, faith is the shield that catches and extinguishes every flaming attack of the evil one. It matters because trusting God's promises is the believer's chief defense against temptation and doubt.

Cross-references · 12

• 1 Pet 5:8–9Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
• 1 Jn 5:4–5For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.
• Prov 18:10Yahweh’s name is a strong tower: the righteous run to him, and are safe.
• Ps 56:3–4When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.
• Gen 15:1After these things Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”
• Ps 56:10–11In God, I will praise his word. In Yahweh, I will praise his word.
• 2 Cor 4:16–18Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.
• Heb 11:24–34By faith, Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter,
• 2 Cor 1:24Not that we control your faith, but are fellow workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith.
• Heb 6:17–18In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;
• 1 Th 5:19Don’t quench the Spirit.
• Ps 120:4Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.

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