1. Now I, Paul, make a personal appeal to you by the gentleness and graciousness of Christ — I who am humble among you in person but bold toward you when absent.
2. I beg you that when I am present I will not need to be bold with the confidence by which I plan to challenge certain people who think we are behaving in an unspiritual way.
3. For though we live in the body, we do not wage war in an unspiritual way,
4. since the weapons of our warfare are not worldly, but are powerful through God for the demolition of strongholds. We demolish arguments
5. and every high-minded thing that is raised up against the knowledge of God, taking every thought captive to obey Christ.
6. And we are ready to punish any disobedience, once your obedience has been confirmed.