102 Corinthians 10

1Now I Paul myself beseech you, by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence [am] base among you, but being absent am bold towards you:Select 2 Corinthians 10:1

2But I beseech [you], that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, with which I think to be bold against some, who think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.Select 2 Corinthians 10:2

3For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh:Select 2 Corinthians 10:3

4(For the weapons of our warfare [are] not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)Select 2 Corinthians 10:4

5Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;Select 2 Corinthians 10:5

6And having in a readiness to avenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.Select 2 Corinthians 10:6

7Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trusteth to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he [is] Christ's, even so [are] we Christ's.Select 2 Corinthians 10:7

8For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:Select 2 Corinthians 10:8

9That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.Select 2 Corinthians 10:9

10For [his] letters (say they) [are] weighty and powerful; but [his] bodily presence [is] weak, and [his] speech contemptible.Select 2 Corinthians 10:10

11Let such one think this, that such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such [will we be] also in deed when we are present.Select 2 Corinthians 10:11

12For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.Select 2 Corinthians 10:12

13But we will not boast of things without [our] measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure to reach even to you.Select 2 Corinthians 10:13

14For we stretch not ourselves beyond [our measure], as though we reached not to you; for we are come as far as to you also in [preaching] the gospel of Christ:Select 2 Corinthians 10:14

15Not boasting of things without [our] measure, [that is], of other men's labors; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you, according to our rule abundantly,Select 2 Corinthians 10:15

16To preach the gospel in the [regions] beyond you, [and] not to boast in another man's line of things made ready to our hand.Select 2 Corinthians 10:16

17But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.Select 2 Corinthians 10:17

18For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.Select 2 Corinthians 10:18