⁶ For by plans thou makest for thyself war, And deliverance `is' in a multitude of counsellors.

¹⁴ Without counsels do a people fall, And deliverance `is' in a multitude of counsellors.

¹⁸ Purposes by counsel thou dost establish, And with plans make thou war.

²² Without counsel `is' the making void of purposes, And in a multitude of counsellors it is established.

³¹ `Or what king going on to engage with another king in war, doth not, having sat down, first consult if he be able with ten thousand to meet him who with twenty thousand is coming against him?

¹⁰ As to the rest, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might;

¹¹ put on the whole armour of God, for your being able to stand against the wiles of the devil,

¹² because we have not the wrestling with blood and flesh, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual things of the evil in the heavenly places;

¹³ because of this take ye up the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to resist in the day of the evil, and all things having done -- to stand.

¹⁴ Stand, therefore, having your loins girt about in truth, and having put on the breastplate of the righteousness,

¹⁵ and having the feet shod in the preparation of the good-news of the peace;

¹⁶ above all, having taken up the shield of the faith, in which ye shall be able all the fiery darts of the evil one to quench,

¹⁷ and the helmet of the salvation receive, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the saying of God,

¹⁸ through all prayer and supplication praying at all times in the Spirit, and in regard to this same, watching in all perseverance and supplication for all the saints --

¹⁹ and in behalf of me, that to me may be given a word in the opening of my mouth, in freedom, to make known the secret of the good news,

²⁰ for which I am an ambassador in a chain, that in it I may speak freely -- as it behoveth me to speak.

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

²⁵ and every one who is striving, is in all things temperate; these, indeed, then, that a corruptible crown they may receive, but we an incorruptible;

²⁶ I, therefore, thus run, not as uncertainly, thus I fight, as not beating air;

²⁷ but I chastise my body, and bring `it' into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others -- I myself may become disapproved.

¹¹ and thou, O man of God, these things flee, and pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, meekness;

¹² be striving the good strife of the faith, be laying hold on the life age-during, to which also thou wast called, and didst profess the right profession before many witnesses.