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I ask that 1when I am present I need not be bold with the confidence with which I propose to be courageousagainst2some, who regard us as if we walked3according to the flesh.
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Now I, Paul, myself urge you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ -I who am meek when face to face with you, but bold toward you when absent!
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I ask that when I am present I need not be bold with the confidence with which I propose to be courageous against some, who regard us as if we walked according to the flesh.
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For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh,
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for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses.
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We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ,