{save that they bow down under the prisoners and fall under the slain}? In all of this his anger has not turned away, and still his hand [is] stretched out.

For [even] if you struck the whole army of [the] Chaldeans who are fighting against you, and [only] men pierced through remained among them, each one in his tent, they would rise up and they would burn this city with fire.'"

persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed;

And he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, because the power is perfected in weakness." Therefore rather I will boast most gladly in my weaknesses, in order that the power of Christ may reside in me.

Stand therefore, girding your waist with truth, and putting on the breastplate of righteousness,

I am able [to do] all [things] by the one who strengthens me.

extinguished the effectiveness of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were made strong from weakness, became mighty in battle, put to flight enemy battle lines.

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Then he said, "If they have come out for peace, seize them alive; and if they have come out for war, seize them alive."