³ For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does.^{(A) 4} The weapons we fight with^(B) are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power^(C) to demolish strongholds.^{(D) 5} We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God,^(E) and we take captive every thought to make it obedient^(F) to Christ.

¹⁷ But, “Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord.”^{[a](A) 18} For it is not the one who commends himself^(B) who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends.^(C)