Sha'ul�s Second Letter to the Corinthians, Chapter 10
{10:1} Now I Sha'ul, myself, entreat you by the humility and
gentleness of Messiah; I who in your presence am lowly among you, but
being absent am of good courage toward you. {10:2} Yes, I beg you,
that I may not, when present, show courage with the confidence with
which I count to be bold against some, who count of us as if we walked
according to the flesh. {10:3} For though we walk in the flesh, we
don't wage war according to the flesh; {10:4} for the weapons of our
warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing
down of strongholds, {10:5} throwing down imaginations and every high
thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every
thought into captivity to the obedience of Messiah; {10:6} and being
in readiness to avenge all disobedience, when your obedience will be
made full. {10:7} Do you look at things only as they appear in front
of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Messiah's, let
him consider this again with himself, that, even as he is Messiah's,
so also we are Messiah's. {10:8} For though I should boast somewhat
abundantly concerning our authority, (which the Lord gave for building
you up, and not for casting you down) I will not be put to shame,
{10:9} that I may not seem as if I desire to terrify you by my
letters. {10:10} For, "His letters," they say, "are weighty and
strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised."
{10:11} Let such a person consider this, that what we are in word by
letters when we are absent, such are we also in deed when we are
present. {10:12} For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves
with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves,
measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with
themselves, are without understanding. {10:13} But we will not boast
beyond proper limits, but within the boundaries with which God
appointed to us, which reach even to you. {10:14} For we don't stretch
ourselves too much, as though we didn't reach to you. For we came even
as far as to you in the Good News of Messiah, {10:15} not boasting
beyond proper limits in other men's labors, but having hope that as
your faith grows, we will be magnified in you according to our
boundaries to abundance, {10:16} so as to preach the Good News even to
the parts beyond you, not to boast in what someone else has already
done. {10:17} But "he who boasts, let him boast in the Lord." {10:18}
For it isn't he who commends himself who is approved, but whom the
Lord commends.
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