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down of strong holds;)
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Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against
the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
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And
having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
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Do ye look
on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Christ’s, let him of
himself think this again, that, as he
is
Christ’s, even so
are
we Christ’s.
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For though I should boast
somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your
destruction, I should not be ashamed:
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That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.
10
For
his
letters, say they,
are
weighty and powerful; but
his
bodily presence
is
weak, and
his
speech
contemptible.
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Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we are
absent, such
will we be
also in deed when we are present.
12
For we dare not make ourselves of the
number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves
by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.
13
But we will not boast
of things without
our
measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed
to us, a measure to reach even unto you.
14
For we stretch not ourselves beyond
our measure,
as
though we reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in
preaching
the gospel of
Christ:
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Not boasting of things without
our
measure,
that is,
of other men’s labours; but having
hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly,
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To preach the gospel in the
regions
beyond you,
and
not to boast in another man’s line of things
made ready to our hand.
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But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
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For not he that
commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.
CHAPTER CORINTHIANS 11
Would to God ye could bear with me a little in
my
folly: and indeed bear with me.
2
For I am jealous
over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present
you as
a chaste virgin to Christ.
3
But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his
subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
4
For if he that
cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or
if
ye receive another spirit, which
ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with
him.
5
For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
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But though
I be
rude in speech,
yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.
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Have
I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you
the gospel of God freely?
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I robbed other churches, taking wages
of them,
to do you service.
9
And
when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking
to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all
things
I have kept myself from
being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep
myself.
10
As the truth of Christ is in me, no man
shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
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Wherefore? because I love you not? God
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