2Corinthians10

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(2co 10:1) Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence {am} base among you, but being absent am bold toward you:
(2co 10:2) But I beseech {you}, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.
(2co 10:3) For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
(2co 10:4) (For the weapons of our warfare {are} not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
(2co 10:5) 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;
(2co 10:6) And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
(2co 10:7) 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.
(2co 10:8) 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:
(2co 10:9) That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.
(2co 10:10) For {his} letters, say they, {are} weighty and powerful; but {his} bodily presence {is} weak, and {his} speech contemptible.
(2co 10:11) 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.
(2co 10:12) 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.
(2co 10:13) 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.
(2co 10:14) 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:
(2co 10:15) 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,
(2co 10:16) 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.
(2co 10:17) But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
(2co 10:18) For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.
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