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Chapter 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: |
| 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. |
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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. |
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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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| 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. |
