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2 Corinthians 10 📜 📕 ↷
Paul's Apostolic Authority
1 AND I, Paul my self beseech you by the mildness and modesty of Christ, who in presence indeed am humble among you, but absent am bold on you.📜💬📚
2 But I beseech you, that being present I need not be bold by that confidence wherewith I am thought to be bold against some: which think us as though we walk according to the flesh.📜💬📚
3 For walking in the flesh, we war not according to the flesh.📜💬📚
4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal: but mighty to God unto the destruction of munitions, destroying counsels,📜💬📚
5 and all loftiness extolling itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity all understanding unto the obedience of Christ,📜💬📚
6 and having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience shall be fulfilled.📜💬📚
7 See the things that are according to appearance. If any man have affiance in himself, that he is Christ's: let him think this again with himself, that as he is Christ's, so we also.📜💬📚
8 For and if I should glory some-what more of our power, which our Lord hath given us unto edification and not to your destruction; I shall not be ashamed.📜💬📚
9 But that I may not be thought as it were to terrify you by epistles📜💬📚
10 (for his epistles indeed, say they, are sore and vehement; but his bodily presence weak, & his speech contemptible)📜💬📚
11 let him this think that is such a one, that such as we are in word by epistles, absent: such also we are in deed, present.📜💬📚
12 For we dare not match or compare our selves with certain, that commend themselves: but we measure our selves in our selves, & compare our selves to our selves.📜💬📚
13 But we will not glory above our measure: but according to the measure of the rule; which God hath measured to us, a measure to reach even unto you.📜💬📚
14 For not, as though we reached not unto you, do we extend ourselves beyond. For we are come as far as to you in the Gospel of Christ.📜💬📚
15 not glorying above measure in other men's labours: but having hope of your faith increasing, to be magnified in you according to our rule aboundantly,📜💬📚
16 yea unto those places that are beyond you, to evangelize, not in an other man's rule, to glory in those things that are prepared before.📜💬📚
17 But he that glorieth, let him glory in our Lord.📜💬📚
18 For not he that commendeth himself, the same is approved; but whom God commendeth.📜💬📚
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