³ Now let all your fighting-men make a circle round the town, going all round it once. Do this for six days.

⁹ Only, do not go against the Lord or go in fear of the people of the land, for they will be our food; their strength has been taken from them and the Lord is with us: have no fear of them.

⁷ And he said to the people, Go forward, circling the town, and let the armed men go before the ark of the Lord.

¹⁴ The second day they went all round the town once, and then went back to their tents: and so they did for six days.

²¹ For because, by the purpose of God, the world, with all its wisdom, had not the knowledge of God, it was God's pleasure, by so foolish a thing as preaching, to give salvation to those who had faith in him.

²² Seeing that the Jews make request for signs, and the Greeks are looking for knowledge:

²³ But we give the good news of Christ on the cross, a hard thing to the Jews, and a foolish thing to the Gentiles;

²⁴ But to those of God's selection, Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power and the wisdom of God.

²⁵ Because what seems foolish in God is wiser than men; and what seems feeble in God is stronger than men.

⁷ But we have this wealth in vessels of earth, so that it may be seen that the power comes not from us but from God;