from him the Christian can do nothing (John 15:1–5), but there is available all the strength of his might. This phrase brings us back to two of the words that have been used already in 1:19 (and a third, dynamis, is the verb that he has employed), and the repetition gives the same emphasis on God’s resources of prevailing, triumphant power as we noted in that passage. 11. Such strength is needed, for the conflict is fierce and long. But Paul now expresses in another way the equipping that the Christian