2 Corinthians 10 (New American Standard)

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Paul Describes Himself

1 Now ¹I, Paul, myself ²urge you by the ³meekness and gentleness of Christ -I who ⁴am ^ameek when face to face with you, but bold toward you when absent ! 2 I ask that ⁵when I am present I need not be bold with the confidence with which I propose to be courageous against ⁶some, who regard us as if we walked ⁷according to the flesh. 3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war ⁸according to the flesh, 4 for the ⁹weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but ^bdivinely powerful ¹⁰for the destruction of fortresses. 5 We are destroying speculations and every ¹¹lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the ¹²obedience of Christ, 6 and we are ready to punish all disobedience, whenever ¹³your obedience is complete. 7 ^c¹⁴You are looking at ^dthings as they are outwardly . ¹⁵If anyone is confident in himself that he is Christ's, let him consider this again within himself, that just as he is Christ's, ¹⁶so also are we. 8 For even if ¹⁷I boast somewhat ^efurther about our ¹⁸authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for destroying you, I will not be put to shame, 9 ^ffor I do not wish to seem as if I would terrify you by my letters. 10 For they say, "His letters are weighty and strong, but his ^gpersonal presence is ¹⁹unimpressive and ²⁰his speech contemptible." 11 Let such a person consider this, that what we are in word by letters when absent, such persons we are also in deed when present. 12 For we are not bold to class or compare ourselves with ^hsome of those who ²¹commend themselves ; but when they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are without understanding. 13 But we will not boast ²²beyond our measure, but ⁱ²³within the measure of the sphere which God apportioned to us as a measure, to reach even as far as you. 14 For we are not overextending ourselves, as if we did not reach to you, for ²⁴we were the first to come even as far as you in the ²⁵gospel of Christ ; 15 not boasting ²⁶beyond our measure, that is, in ²⁷other men's labors, but with the hope that as ²⁸your faith grows, we will be, ^jwithin our sphere, ²⁹enlarged even more by you, 16 so as to ³⁰preach the gospel even to ³¹the regions beyond you, and not to boast ^k³²in what has been accomplished in the sphere of another. 17 But ³³HE WHO BOASTS IS TO BOAST IN THE LORD. 18 For it is not he who ³⁴commends himself that is approved, but he ³⁵whom the Lord commends.

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