"For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh." (2 Corinthians 10:3)

This verse introduces a famous apologetic charge to the saints. The key to the whole passage is the qualifier "we do not war after the flesh."

"But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you." (Acts 1:8)

"|The| glory of children are their fathers." (Proverbs 17:6)

". . . the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost." (Titus 3:5)

"There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." (Romans 8:1)

This promise in our text is followed in a later Pauline epistle by two nuanced commands in the letter to the church at Galatia.