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10 : 1 Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you:
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10 : 2 But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.
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10 : 3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
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10 : 4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
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10 : 5 Casting 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;
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10 : 6 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
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10 : 7 Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust 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.
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10 : 8 For 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:
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10 : 9 That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.
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10 : 10 For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.
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10 : 11 Let such an 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.
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10 : 12 For 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.
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10 : 13 But 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 unto you.
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10 : 14 For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ:
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10 : 15 Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other men`s labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly,
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10 : 16 To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man`s line of things made ready to our hand.
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10 : 17 But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
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10 : 18 For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.
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