¹¹ And he saith, `If Aram be stronger than I, then thou hast been to me for salvation, and if the Bene-Ammon be stronger than thou, then I have come to give salvation to thee;

⁹ and the sons of Ammon come out and set battle in array at the opening of the city, and the kings who have come `are' by themselves in the field.

¹⁰ And Joab seeth that the front of the battle hath been unto him, before and behind, and he chooseth out of all the choice in Israel, and setteth in array to meet Aram,

¹¹ and the remnant of the people he hath given into the hand of Abishai his brother, and they set in array to meet the sons of Ammon.

¹² And he saith, `If Aram be stronger than I, then thou hast been to me for salvation; and if the sons of Ammon be stronger than thou, then I have saved thee;

²⁰ in the place that ye hear the voice of the trumpet thither ye are gathered unto us; our God doth fight for us.'

³² and I besought for thee, that thy faith may not fail; and thou, when thou didst turn, strengthen thy brethren.'

¹ And we ought -- we who are strong -- to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves;

² of one another the burdens bear ye, and so fill up the law of the Christ,

²⁷ Only worthily of the good news of the Christ conduct ye yourselves, that, whether having come and seen you, whether being absent I may hear of the things concerning you, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul, striving together for the faith of the good news,

²⁸ and not terrified in anything by those opposing, which to them indeed is a token of destruction, and to you of salvation, and that from God;