³ For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh

³ Suffer hardship with `me', as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

⁴ No soldier on service entangleth himself in the affairs of `this' life; that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

¹ Forasmuch then as Christ suffered in the flesh, arm ye yourselves also with the same mind; for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;

² that ye no longer should live the rest of your time in flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

¹³ for if ye live after the flesh, ye must die; but if by the Spirit ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

⁴ (for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the casting down of strongholds),

¹⁸ This charge I commit unto thee, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which led the way to thee, that by them thou mayest war the good warfare;

⁷ I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith:

²⁰ I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me: and that `life' which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, `the faith' which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

¹ Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,