What
is an adversary?
An enemy, the devil, someone in opposition.
Dictionary
one
that contends with, opposes or resists,
an
enemy or opponent.
having
or involving antagonistic parties or opposing interests.
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The Enemy is our adversary.
In war, the enemy is our adversity.
Goliath was David's adversary.
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1
Peter 5;8
Be
of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil,
prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
Exodus
23;22
But
if you truly obey his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to
your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.
Numbers
10;9
When
you go to war in your land against the adversary who attacks you, then
you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets, that you may be remembered before
the Lord your God, and be saved from your enemies.
1
Kings 5;4
But
now the Lord my God has given me rest on every side; there is neither adversary
nor misfortune.
Job
6;23
Or,
‘Deliver me from the hand of the adversary,’ Or, ‘Redeem me from the
hand of the tyrants’?
Job
16;9
“His
anger has torn me and hunted me down, He has gnashed at me with His teeth; My adversary
glares at me.
Psalm
7;4
If I
have rewarded evil to my friend, Or have plundered him who without cause was my
adversary.
Psalm
60:;11
O
give us help against the adversary, For deliverance by man is in vain.
Psalm
78;61
And
gave up His strength to captivity And His glory into the hand of the adversary.
Psalm
107;2
Let
the redeemed of the Lord say so, Whom He has redeemed from the hand of
the adversary.
Lamentations
1;7
In
the days of her affliction and homelessness Jerusalem remembers all her
precious things That were from the days of old, When her people fell into the
hand of the adversary And no one helped her. The adversaries saw her,
They mocked at her ruin.
Lamentations
1;10
The adversary
has stretched out his hand Over all her precious things, For she has seen the
nations enter her sanctuary, The ones whom You commanded That they should not
enter into Your congregation.
Lamentations
2;4
He
has bent His bow like an enemy; He has set His right hand like an adversary
And slain all that were pleasant to the eye; In the tent of the daughter of
Zion He has poured out His wrath like fire.
Lamentations
4;12
The
kings of the earth did not believe, Nor did any of the inhabitants of
the world, That the adversary and the enemy Could enter the gates of
Jerusalem