[consisting] of righteousness 15 and having shod [your] feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace, 16 with all [these pieces of armor] taking up the shield of faith, with which you’ll have power to extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. 17 And grab the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is God’s word … [compare Isaiah 11:4–5; 59:17]. We read yet another “stand,” but this time in a command predicated on having been empowered by the donning of God’s full armor,
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