12 Bible Verses about Strongholds In The Bible

2 Corinthians 10:4-5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,

Proverbs 21:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes

A wise man scales the city of the mighty and brings down the stronghold in which they trust.

Psalm 18:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

Matthew 16:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Nahum 1:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; he knows those who take refuge in him.

Joel 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The Lord roars from Zion, and utters his voice from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth quake. But the Lord is a refuge to his people, a stronghold to the people of Israel.

Jeremiah 16:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

O Lord, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in the day of trouble, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth and say: “Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, worthless things in which there is no profit.

Jeremiah 10:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation.

Isaiah 25:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat; for the breath of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall,

Psalm 144:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

He is my steadfast love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield and he in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me.

Psalm 91:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”

Psalm 9:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.

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