2 Coríntios 10:3

3 Porque, embora andando na carne, não militamos segundo a carne,

2 Coríntios 10:3 Meaning and Commentary

2 Corinthians 10:3

For though we walk in the flesh
The apostle removes the calumny of walking after the flesh, by owning that they were in the flesh, in the body, in a state of imperfection, attended with many weaknesses and infirmities, and surrounded with a variety of afflictions and sorrows; in this sense they were, and lived and walked in the flesh; but then he denies the charge exhibited against them,

we do not war after the flesh:
every Christian's life is a warfare with Satan, and his principalities and powers, with the world, the men and lusts of it, and with the corruptions of their own hearts; and much more is the life of a minister of the Gospel, who is called forth to meet the adversary in the gate; to stand in the hottest place of the battle, and sustain the whole fire and artillery of the enemy; to fight the good fight of faith, endure hardness as a good soldier of Christ, and with the weapons he is furnished with to war a good warfare: which is not done "after the flesh"; in such a manner as the men of the world wage war with one another; or upon carnal principles; or with carnal selfish views; or in a weak way and manner; but in a spiritual way, with all simplicity and disinterested views, with great courage and intrepidity of mind.

2 Coríntios 10:3 In-Context

1 Ora eu mesmo, Paulo, vos rogo pela mansidão e benignidade de Cristo, eu que, na verdade, quando presente entre vós, sou humilde, mas quando ausente, ousado para convosco;

2 sim, eu vos rogo que, quando estiver presente, não me veja obrigado a usar, com confiança, da ousadia que espero ter para com alguns que nos julgam como se andássemos segundo a carne.

3 Porque, embora andando na carne, não militamos segundo a carne,

4 pois as armas da nossa milícia não são carnais, mas poderosas em Deus, para demolição de fortalezas;

5 derribando raciocínios e todo baluarte que se ergue contra o conhecimento de Deus, e levando cativo todo pensamento � obediência a Cristo;