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And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God" -- Ephesians 6:17

Oh, c'mon, that's one of those concoctions, a little bit from here and a little bit from there to make it sound like it's somewhere in the scripture all in one neat little package. It's obviously biblical engineering;

Let's look at it closely:

"And take the helmet of salvation"—from Isa 59:17

He put on righteousness like a breastplate, And a helmet of salvation on His head; And He put on garments of vengeance for clothing And wrapped Himself with zeal as a mantle.

"and the sword of the Spirit"—Isa 49:2,

He has made My mouth like a sharp sword, In the shadow of His hand He has concealed Me; And He has also made Me a select arrow, He has hidden Me in His quiver.

and Hos 6:5

therefore I have hewn them in pieces by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of My mouth; And the judgments on you are like the light that goes forth.

(notice how the words of God here don't "save" but kill)

"[the Spirit] which is the word of God"—not fund in this context anywhere in the OT (Oh, no, what did the Bereans do!?)and is completely Paul's own construct.

So, what we have here is a collage of two different chapters of Isaiah and one addition made by Paul, neatly packaged as a Biblical statement.

This is like cutting and pasting from various editions of the NY Times the following words Red, Sea, blue, the, not, red, is, but and claiming the NYT says "the Red Sea is red and not blue!"