Verse 3

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

Referenced Verses

  • 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,