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2 Corinthians 10

Paul Describes Himself

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Now  aI, Paul, myself  burge you by the  cmeekness and gentleness of Christ--I who  dam  1meek when face to face with you, but bold toward you when absent!

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I ask that  awhen I am present I need not be bold with the confidence with which I propose to be courageous against  bsome, who regard us as if we walked  caccording to the flesh.

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For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war  aaccording to the flesh,

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for the  aweapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but  1divinely powerful  bfor the destruction of fortresses.

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We are destroying speculations and every  alofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the  bobedience of Christ,

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and we are ready to punish all disobedience, whenever  ayour obedience is complete.

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 1 aYou are looking at  2things as they are outwardly.  bIf anyone is confident in himself that he is Christ's, let him consider this again within himself, that just as he is Christ's,  cso also are we.

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For even if  aI boast somewhat  1further about our  bauthority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for destroying you, I will not be put to shame,

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 1for I do not wish to seem as if I would terrify you by my letters.

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For they say, "His letters are weighty and strong, but his  1personal presence is  aunimpressive and  bhis speech contemptible."

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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.

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For we are not bold to class or compare ourselves with  1some of those who  acommend themselves; but when they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are without understanding.

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But we will not boast  abeyond our measure, but  1 bwithin the measure of the sphere which God apportioned to us as a measure, to reach even as far as you.

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For we are not overextending ourselves, as if we did not reach to you, for  awe were the first to come even as far as you in the  bgospel of Christ;

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not boasting  abeyond our measure, that is, in  bother men's labors, but with the hope that as  cyour faith grows, we will be,  1within our sphere,  denlarged even more by you,

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so as to  apreach the gospel even to  bthe regions beyond you, and not to boast  1 cin what has been accomplished in the sphere of another.

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But  aHE WHO BOASTS IS TO BOAST IN THE LORD.

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For it is not he who  acommends himself that is approved, but he  bwhom the Lord commends.



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