1. And I, Paul, myself, do call upon you--through the meekness and gentleness of the Christ--who in presence, indeed [am] humble among you, and being absent, have courage toward you,
2. and I beseech [you], that, being present, I may not have courage, with the confidence with which I reckon to be bold against certain reckoning us as walking according to the flesh;
3. for walking in the flesh, not according to the flesh do we war,
4. for the weapons of our warfare [are] not fleshly, but powerful to God for bringing down of strongholds,
5. reasonings bringing down, and every high thing lifted up against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of the Christ,