For though we live ¹  as human beings, ²  we do not wage war according to human standards, ³ 

No one in military service gets entangled in matters of everyday life; otherwise he will not please ¹  the one who recruited him.

Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and exiles to keep away from fleshly desires that do battle against the soul,

I put this charge ¹  before you, Timothy my child, in keeping with the prophecies once spoken about you, ²  in order that with such encouragement ³  you may fight the good fight.

Where do the conflicts and where ¹  do the quarrels among you come from? Is it not from this, ²  from your passions that battle inside you? ³ 

Then some soldiers ¹  also asked him, “And as for us – what should we do?” ²  He told them, “Take money from no one by violence ³  or by false accusation, ⁴  and be content with your pay.”

Who ever serves in the army at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Who tends a flock and does not consume its milk?