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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.
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