2 Corinthians 10:3

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For though we live as human beings, we do not wage war according to human standards,

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  • 2 Tim 2:3-4 : 3 Take your share of suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. 4 No one in military service gets entangled in matters of everyday life; otherwise he will not please the one who recruited him.
  • 1 Pet 4:1-2 : 1 So, since Christ suffered in the flesh, you also arm yourselves with the same attitude, because the one who has suffered in the flesh has finished with sin, 2 in that he spends the rest of his time on earth concerned about the will of God and not human desires.
  • 1 Tim 1:18 : 18 I put this charge before you, Timothy my child, in keeping with the prophecies once spoken about you, in order that with such encouragement you may fight the good fight.
  • 2 Tim 4:7 : 7 I have competed well; I have finished the race; I have kept the faith!
  • Rom 8:13 : 13 (for if you live according to the flesh, you will die), but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live.
  • 2 Cor 10:4 : 4 for the weapons of our warfare are not human weapons, but are made powerful by God for tearing down strongholds. We tear down arguments
  • Gal 2:20 : 20 I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So the life I now live in the body, I live because of the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
  • Heb 12:1 : 1 The Lord’s Discipline Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, we must get rid of every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and run with endurance the race set out for us,

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  • 2 Cor 10:4-5
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    4for the weapons of our warfare are not human weapons, but are made powerful by God for tearing down strongholds. We tear down arguments

    5and every arrogant obstacle that is raised up against the knowledge of God, and we take every thought captive to make it obey Christ.

  • 2 Cor 10:2
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    2now I ask that when I am present I may not have to be bold with the confidence that(I expect) I will dare to use against some who consider us to be behaving according to human standards.

  • Rom 8:4-6
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    4so that the righteous requirement of the law may be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

    5For those who live according to the flesh have their outlook shaped by the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit have their outlook shaped by the things of the Spirit.

    6For the outlook of the flesh is death, but the outlook of the Spirit is life and peace,

  • Eph 6:10-13
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    10Exhortations for Spiritual Warfare Finally, be strengthened in the Lord and in the strength of his power.

    11Clothe yourselves with the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.

    12For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavens.

    13For this reason, take up the full armor of God so that you may be able to stand your ground on the evil day, and having done everything, to stand.

  • 2 Cor 5:6-7
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    6Therefore we are always full of courage, and we know that as long as we are alive here on earth we are absent from the Lord–

    7for we live by faith, not by sight.

  • Rom 8:12-13
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    12So then, brothers and sisters, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh

    13(for if you live according to the flesh, you will die), but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live.

  • Gal 5:16-17
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    16But I say, live by the Spirit and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh.

    17For the flesh has desires that are opposed to the Spirit, and the Spirit has desires that are opposed to the flesh, for these are in opposition to each other, so that you cannot do what you want.

  • Phil 3:3-4
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    3For we are the circumcision, the ones who worship by the Spirit of God, exult in Christ Jesus, and do not rely on human credentials

    4– though mine too are significant. If someone thinks he has good reasons to put confidence in human credentials, I have more:

  • Gal 5:25
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    25If we live by the Spirit, let us also behave in accordance with the Spirit.

  • Rom 8:8-9
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    8Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

    9You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, this person does not belong to him.

  • Eph 4:17
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    17Live in Holiness So I say this, and insist in the Lord, that you no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.

  • 2 Cor 5:16
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    16So then from now on we acknowledge no one from an outward human point of view. Even though we have known Christ from such a human point of view, now we do not know him in that way any longer.

  • 1 Cor 3:3
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    3for you are still influenced by the flesh. For since there is still jealousy and dissension among you, are you not influenced by the flesh and behaving like unregenerate people?

  • 1 Pet 4:1-2
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    1So, since Christ suffered in the flesh, you also arm yourselves with the same attitude, because the one who has suffered in the flesh has finished with sin,

    2in that he spends the rest of his time on earth concerned about the will of God and not human desires.

  • 2 Cor 4:16
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    16Therefore we do not despair, but even if our physical body is wearing away, our inner person is being renewed day by day.

  • 2 Thess 3:9
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    9It was not because we do not have that right, but to give ourselves as an example for you to imitate.

  • Rom 13:13-14
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    13Let us live decently as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in discord and jealousy.

    14Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh to arouse its desires.

  • 2 Tim 2:4
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    4No one in military service gets entangled in matters of everyday life; otherwise he will not please the one who recruited him.

  • 2 Cor 10:11
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    11Let such a person consider this: What we say by letters when we are absent, we also are in actions when we are present.

  • 1 Cor 9:26
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    26So I do not run uncertainly or box like one who hits only air.

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    5For even when we came into Macedonia, our body had no rest at all, but we were troubled in every way– struggles from the outside, fears from within.

  • 2 Cor 5:3
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    3if indeed, after we have put on our heavenly house, we will not be found naked.

  • Rom 7:5
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    5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful desires, aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.

  • Eph 2:3
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    3among whom all of us also formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as the rest…

  • 2 Cor 4:10-12
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    10always carrying around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our body.

    11For we who are alive are constantly being handed over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our mortal body.

    12As a result, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.

  • Eph 2:10
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    10For we are his creative work, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works that God prepared beforehand so we can do them.

  • 2 Cor 4:18
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    18because we are not looking at what can be seen but at what cannot be seen. For what can be seen is temporary, but what cannot be seen is eternal.

  • Rom 7:14
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    14For we know that the law is spiritual– but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin.

  • 2 Cor 10:9
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    9I do not want to seem as though I am trying to terrify you with my letters,

  • 1 Cor 2:13
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    13And we speak about these things, not with words taught us by human wisdom, but with those taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual things to spiritual people.

  • Rom 8:1
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    1The Believer’s Relationship to the Holy Spirit There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

  • Eph 6:17
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    17And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit(which is the word of God).

  • Phil 3:16
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    16Nevertheless, let us live up to the standard that we have already attained.

  • 2 Cor 3:4
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    4Now we have such confidence in God through Christ.

  • 2 Cor 10:7
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    7You are looking at outward appearances. If anyone is confident that he belongs to Christ, he should reflect on this again: Just as he himself belongs to Christ, so too do we.