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title: 2 Corinthians 10
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createdAt: 2024-09-15T02:05:08.375Z
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**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: **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. **3 **For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: **4 **(For the weapons of our warfare *are* not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) **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; **6 **And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.

**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. **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: **9 **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. **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.

**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: **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, **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. **17 **But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. **18 **For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.