18c and to this end keeping alert with all persistence and petition for all the saints.” 19 and pray in my behalf, that speech may be given to me in […]
through every prayer and petition Having commanded believers to take up their helmet of salvation and sword of the Spirit, Paul now describes the attitude that they should continually […]
The action word here is dechomai “take,”. Instead of just “put on” like with the breastplate or the boots, there is action here. The word for sword is machaira which […]
Christians are Always in the War Zone–As Christians, as long as we’re in this world—we’re always under impending danger of an ambush by the enemy, and especially when we think […]