2Corinthians:10

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* But I myself , Paul , entreat you by the meekness and gentleness of the Christ , who , as to appearance , [when present ] [am ] mean among you , but absent am bold towards you ; * but I beseech that present I may not be bold with the confidence with which I think to be daring towards some who think of us as walking according to flesh . * For walking in flesh , we do not war according to flesh . * For the arms of our warfare [are ] not fleshly , but powerful according to God to [the ] overthrow of strongholds ; * overthrowing reasonings and every high thing that lifts itself up against the knowledge of God , and leading captive every thought into the obedience of the Christ ; * and having in readiness to avenge all disobedience when your obedience shall have been fulfilled . * Do ye look at what concerns appearance ? If any one has confidence in himself that he is of Christ , let him think this again in himself , that even as he [is ] of Christ , so also [are ] we . * For and if I should boast even somewhat more abundantly of our authority , which the Lord has given [to us ] for building up and not for your overthrowing , I shall not be put to shame ; * that I may not seem as if I was frightening you by letters : * because his letters , he says , [are ] weighty and strong , but his presence in the body weak , and his speech naught . * Let such a one think this , that such as we are in word by letters [when ] absent , such also present in deed . * For we dare not class ourselves or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves ; but these , measuring themselves by themselves , and comparing themselves with themselves , are not intelligent . * Now we will not boast out of measure , but according to the measure of the rule which the God of measure has apportioned to us , to reach to you also . * For we do not , as not reaching to you , overstretch ourselves , (for we have come to you also in the glad tidings of the Christ ;) * not boasting out of measure in other people 's labours , but having hope , your faith increasing , to be enlarged amongst you , according to our rule , yet more abundantly * to announce the glad tidings to that [which is ] beyond you , not to be boasting in another 's rule of things made ready to hand . * But he that boasts , let him boast in the Lord . * For not he that commends himself is approved , but whom the Lord commends .

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