Cross references

Ephesians 6:16

In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.

Ephesians 6:16 BSB

Ephesians 6:16 has 12 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 11 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to 1 Peter 5:8–9 (49 votes) and 1 John 5:4–5 (36 votes). 38 other verses point back to it. It links with 26 other books, from Genesis 15 to Revelation 12.

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Which verses does Ephesians 6:16 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in your faith and in the knowledge that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kinds of suffering.

  2. because everyone born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith. Who then overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.

  3. The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe.

  4. When I am afraid, I put my trust in You. In God, whose word I praise—in God I trust. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

  5. Genesis 15:120 votes

    After these events, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward.”

  6. In God, whose word I praise, in the LORD, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

  7. Therefore we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, yet our inner self is being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory that is far beyond comparison. …

  8. By faith Moses, when he was grown, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter. He chose to suffer oppression with God’s people rather than to experience the fleeting enjoyment of sin. …

  9. Not that we lord it over your faith, but we are fellow workers with you for your joy, because it is by faith that you stand firm.

  10. So when God wanted to make the unchanging nature of His purpose very clear to the heirs of the promise, He guaranteed it with an oath. Thus by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be strongly encouraged.

Which verses point to Ephesians 6:16?

The 10 strongest of 38.