above all, having taken up the shield of belief with which you shall have power to quench all the burning arrows of the wicked one.
After these events the word of יהוה came to Aḇ
“And You give me the shield of Your deliverance, And Your lowliness makes me great.
Sharp arrows of a mighty man, With coals of the broom-wood!
And He has prepared for Himself instruments of death, He makes His arrows hot for pursuers.
The Name of יהוה is a strong tower; The righteous run into it and are safe.
“But let your word ‘Yea’ be ‘Yea,’ and your ‘No’ be ‘No.’ And what goes beyond these is from the wicked one.
Not that we rule over your belief, but we are fellow workers for your joy, for you stand by belief.
Do not quench the Spirit.
But we who are of the day should be sober, putting on the breastplate of belief and love, and as a helmet the expectation of deliverance.