11 (A)Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the [a]wiles of the devil. 12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against (B)principalities, against powers, against (C)the rulers of [b]the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

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  1. Ephesians 6:11 schemings
  2. Ephesians 6:12 NU this darkness,

11 (A)Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the (B)schemes of the devil. 12 For our (C)struggle is not against [a](D)flesh and blood, but (E)against the rulers, against the powers, against the (F)world forces of this (G)darkness, against the (H)spiritual forces of wickedness in (I)the heavenly places.

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  1. Ephesians 6:12 Lit blood and flesh

11 Put on the full armor of God [for His precepts are like the splendid armor of a heavily-armed soldier], so that you may be able to [successfully] stand up against all the schemes and the strategies and the deceits of the devil. 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood [contending only with physical opponents], but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this [present] darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly (supernatural) places.

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11 Put on the full armor of God,(A) so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood,(B) but against the rulers, against the authorities,(C) against the powers(D) of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.(E)

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that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the (A)power of God.

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so that your faith would not [a]rest on the [b]wisdom of mankind, but on (A)the power of God.

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  1. 1 Corinthians 2:5 Lit be
  2. 1 Corinthians 2:5 Or cleverness

so that your faith would not rest on the wisdom and rhetoric of men, but on the power of God.

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so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power.(A)

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