More Spiritual Warfare - Part 6 - The Armour of God Now I'd like to elaborate more about the Armour of God in Ephesians 6:13-17. Notice what each piece has in common! "Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth." When we talk about our loins girt about with truth, note that Ephesians 1:13 says the word of truth is the gospel of your salvation. That is the same word of truth. "And having on the breastplate of righteousness." I feel this refers to 2 Corinthians 5:21 where we are made the righteousness of God in him, so wear this righteousness as a breastplate. "And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel", correspond to Romans 10:15 where Paul says, “how beautiful are the feet of those that preach the gospel of peace and bring glad tidings of good things.” "With the preparation of the gospel of peace", seems to relate to Romans 5:1. “Being justified by faith, we have peace with God. "Taking the shield of faith", I link this to Romans 1:17 where “the righteousness of God was revealed from faith to faith that is as is written, the just shall live [be saved] by faith.” We are saved by faith. "Take the helmet of salvation, I likened that to Romans 1:16. and I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it's the power of God unto salvation to everyone who believeth. And 1Thes. 5:8 says, “But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.” The knowledge of being saved is our helmet. "And the sword of the Spirit, is the Word of God." Notice what Paul tells Timothy. 2 Timothy 3:15 tells us “And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation.” The Word of God makes us wise unto salvation. So that's what I think the meaning of the armor is and that each piece has to do with sharing the gospel and believing it, never doubting your salvation. This is the armour, i.e. our weapons, we use to wage our spiritual warfare. Since we are battling the wicked spirits over the souls of mankind, it makes perfect sense that our armour/our weapons having everything to do with saving souls.