2 Corinthians 10
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| 1 | Now I myself, Paul, exhort you by the gentleness and fairness of the Anointed, who concerning stature am humble among you, but being absent am bold towards you; |
| 2 | but I want, not being present, that you would be bold with the confidence with which I reckon you should be daring towards certain others who are reckoning us as walking in accordance with the flesh. |
| 3 | Indeed walking in the flesh, we do not serve in accordance with flesh. |
| 4 | For the arms of our warfare are not fleshly, but through Yahweh they are able to destroy strongholds, |
| 5 | destroying reasonings and every bulwark raising itself up against the knowledge of Yahweh, and taking captive every thought into the obedience of the Anointed; |
| 6 | also being in readiness to avenge all disobedience, whenever you shall have fulfilled your obedience. |
| 7 | You must look at things according to appearance. If one is confident in himself to be of the Anointed, he must again reckon this by himself: that just as he is of the Anointed, even so are we. |
| 8 | Then if perhaps I would boast somewhat more excessively concerning our authority, which the Prince has given for building and not for your destruction, I shall not be disgraced. |
| 9 | At which I would not think as if to frighten you through letters, |
| 10 | because the letters, says one, are burdensome and severe, but the presence of the body weak, and the speech nothing. |
| 11 | Such a one must reckon this: that as we are in pretense through letters being absent, even so in reality being present. |
| 12 | For we do not venture to rank or compare ourselves with any of those recommending themselves; rather these, measuring themselves with themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, do not understand. |
| 13 | Now we will not boast in regard to things without measure, but according to the measure of the standard of which Yahweh has of measure distributed to us, to reach even as far as you. |
| 14 | For not as if reaching to you do we overextend ourselves, indeed as far as you we also came before with the good message of the Anointed; |
| 15 | not in regard to things without measure boasting in others' troubles; but having hope, increasing your faith, with you to be magnified in accordance with our standard for abundance; |
| 16 | to announce the good message to those beyond you, not ready to boast by another's standard for things, |
| 17 | but "he who is boasting, in Yahweh he must boast." |
| 18 | For it is not he who is recommending himself, who is the person approved, but he whom the Prince recommends. |