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G3696 names an implement, instrument, or weapon. John 18:3 uses the plural for the weapons carried by the party that comes to arrest Jesus. Romans 6:13 twice speaks of bodily members presented as instruments either to unrighteousness or to God for righteousness. Romans 13:12 calls believers to put on the weapons or armor of light. Second Corinthians 6:7 and 10:4 use weapons within ministry and warfare metaphors. The noun does not make every instrument violent or every metaphor a mandate for conflict.

Romans 6 addresses people alive to God in Christ and calls for embodied obedience. It must not be turned into contempt for the body, self-harm, or control of another person's body. Second Corinthians 10 contrasts the weapons of Paul's warfare with fleshly weapons and proceeds to arguments, knowledge, and obedience. The metaphor offers no permission for physical violence, militarized ministry, censorship, manipulation, forced confession, or treating people as enemies to be destroyed.

John 18 presents literal armed force in the arrest scene while Jesus steps forward and protects his disciples. The noun's presence does not endorse the arresting party or create a general rule about weapons. In every setting, moral evaluation comes from the agent, object, action, and passage. Spiritual-warfare language must never displace medical or mental-health care, label disability or disagreement as demonic, or shield abusive authority from evidence and accountability.

Six governed forms in five verses cover literal weapons, bodily instruments offered toward unrighteousness or righteousness, armor of light, weapons of righteousness, and non-fleshly weapons in Paul's ministry metaphor.