For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
For. Reason why they should regard him 'beseeching' them (2 Corinthians 10:2) not to oblige him to have recourse to "bold" exercise of authority. "We walk IN the flesh," and so in weakness; but not "ACCORDING TO the flesh" (2 Corinthians 10:2): though we WALK in it, we do not WAR according to it. A double contrast. They had better not put us to the proof that we neither walk nor war according to the flesh.