Luke 11:22
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“But when someone stronger attacks and overpowers him, he takes away the armor in which the man trusted, and then he divides up his plunder.”
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“But when someone stronger attacks and overpowers him, he takes away the armor in which the man trusted, and then he divides up his plunder.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils.”
King James Version · Public Domain“but when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him his whole armor wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“but when the stronger than he, having come upon <FI>him<Fi> , may overcome him, his whole-armour he doth take away in which he had trusted, and his spoils he distributeth;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Luke 11:22 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 3:15And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
- Isaiah 27:1In that day the LORD will take His sharp, great, and mighty sword, and bring judgment on Leviathan the fleeing serpent—Leviathan the coiling serpent—and He will slay the dragon of the sea.
- Isaiah 49:24Can the plunder be snatched from the mighty, or the captives of a tyrant be delivered?
- Isaiah 53:12Therefore I will allot Him a portion with the great, and He will divide the spoils with the strong, because He has poured out His life unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors. Yet He bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.
- Isaiah 63:1Who is this coming from Edom, from Bozrah with crimson-stained garments? Who is this robed in splendor, marching in the greatness of His strength? “It is I, proclaiming vindication, mighty to save.”
- Colossians 2:15And having disarmed the powers and authorities, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.
- 1 John 3:8The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the very start. This is why the Son of God was revealed, to destroy the works of the devil.
- 1 John 4:4You, little children, are from God and have overcome them, because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.
- Revelation 20:1Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven with the key to the Abyss, holding in his hand a great chain.
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