³ for walking in the flesh, not according to the flesh do we war,

³ thou, therefore, suffer evil as a good soldier of Jesus Christ;

⁴ no one serving as a soldier did entangle himself with the affairs of life, that him who did enlist him he may please;

¹ Christ, then, having suffered for us in the flesh, ye also with the same mind arm yourselves, because he who did suffer in the flesh hath done with sin,

² no more in the desires of men, but in the will of God, to live the rest of the time in the flesh;

¹³ for if according to the flesh ye do live, ye are about to die; and if, by the Spirit, the deeds of the body ye put to death, ye shall live;

⁴ for the weapons of our warfare `are' not fleshly, but powerful to God for bringing down of strongholds,

¹⁸ This charge I commit to thee, child Timotheus, according to the prophesies that went before upon thee, that thou mayest war in them the good warfare,

⁷ the good strife I have striven, the course I have finished, the faith I have kept,

²⁰ with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh -- in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

¹ Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us,