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For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world`s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
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Your Fight Isn't With People
All commentators agree that the Christian's primary struggle is "not against flesh and blood." While conflicts with people are real, this verse identifies the true source as spiritual. As John Calvin notes, humans can be like "darts thrown by the hand of Satan." This perspective encourages believers to direct their fight against the spiritual powers of evil, not the people they may be influencing.
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Ephesians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
For we wrestle. Greek, "The wrestling to us;" or, "There is not to us a wrestling with flesh and blood." There is undoubtedly an allusion …
Our wrestling is not (ουκ εστιν ημιν η παλη). "To us the wrestling is not." Παλη is an old word from παλλω, to throw, to swing (fr…
19th Century
Anglican
For we wrestle.—Properly, For our wrestling is. That there is a struggle, a “battle of life,” must be assumed at once by …
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Baptist
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood,
Our great fight is not against our fellow-men. As Christians, we do not go forth armed w…
In military strategy one must never underestimate the strength of the enemy. Paul is certainly not guilty of such fatal misjudgment but gives a rea…
16th Century
Protestant
For we wrestle not. To impress them even more deeply with their danger, he points out the nature of the enemy, which he illustrat…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood The Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions, and some copies, read "you", i…
Spiritual strength and courage are needed for our spiritual warfare and suffering. Those who wish to prove they have true grace must aim at all gra…
