Because our struggle is not against blood and flesh, but, against the principalities, against the authorities, against the world-holders, of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenlies.

For this cause, take up the complete armour of God, in order that ye may receive power to withstand in the evil day, and, all things, having accomplished, to stand!

Put on the complete armour of God, with a view to your having power to stand against the strategies of the adversary;

Over-above all principality, authority, and power, and lordship, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in the coming one,

Spoiling the principalities and the authorities, he made of them an open example, celebrating a triumph over them thereby.

In order that now, unto the principalities and the authorities in the heavenlies, might be made known, through means of the assembly, the manifold wisdom of God, -

And ye are, in him, filled full, - Who, is the head of all principality and authority,

For I am persuaded that - neither death nor life, nor messengers nor principalities, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers,

Who is on the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, messengers and authorities and powers, having been made subject unto him.

Because, in him, were created all things in the heavens and upon the earth, the things seen and the things unseen, whether thrones or lordships or principalities or authorities, - they all, through him and for him, have been created,

Say thou to the king and to the queen-mother, Abase yourselves - Sit down, - For descended have your Head-tires, your Crown of adornment.

Be putting them in mind, unto rulerships, unto authorities, to be in submission, to be yielding to rule, for every good work, to be, prepared,

And raised us up together, and seated us together in the heavenlies, in Christ:

Who shall separate us from the love of the Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? -

Lo! I have given you the authority - to be treading upon serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and, nothing, unto you, shall in anywise do harm;

Let, every soul, unto protecting authorities be in subjection; for there is no authority save by God, and, they that are in being, have by God been arranged, -

Which, none of the rulers of this age had come to know, for, had they known, not, in that case, the Lord of the glory, would they have crucified!

For, with the stones of the field, shall be thy covenant, and, the wild beast of the field, hath been made thy friend;