2 Corinthians 10

¹And I Paul myself beseech you by the mildness and modesty of Christ, who in presence indeed am humble among you, but absent am bold on you.

²But I beseech you, that being present I need not be bold by that confidence wherewith I am thought to be bold against some: which think us as though we walk according to the flesh.

³For walking in the flesh, we war not according to the flesh.

⁴For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal: but mighty to God unto the destruction of munitions, destroying counsels,

⁵and all loftiness extolling itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity all understanding unto the obedience of Christ,

⁶and having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience shall be fulfilled.

⁷See the things that are according to appearance. If any man have affiance in himself, that he is Christ's: let him think this again with himself, that as he is Christ's, so we also.

⁸For and if I should glory some-what more of our power, which our Lord hath given us unto edification and not to your destruction; I shall not be ashamed.

⁹But that I may not be thought as it were to terrify you by epistles

¹⁰(for his epistles indeed, say they, are sore and vehement; but his bodily presence weak, & his speech contemptible)

¹¹let him this think that is such a one, that such as we are in word by epistles, absent: such also we are in deed, present.

¹²For we dare not match or compare ourselves with certain, that commend themselves: but we measure ourselves in ourselves, & compare ourselves to ourselves.

¹³But we will not glory above our measure: but according to the measure of the rule; which God hath measured to us, a measure to reach even unto you.

¹⁴For not, as though we reached not unto you, do we extend ourselves beyond. For we are come as far as to you in the Gospel of Christ.

¹⁵not glorying above measure in other men's labours: but having hope of your faith increasing, to be magnified in you according to our rule aboundantly,

¹⁶yea unto those places that are beyond you, to evangelize, not in another man's rule, to glory in those things that are prepared before.

¹⁷But he that glorieth, let him glory in our Lord.

¹⁸For not he that commendeth himself, the same is approved; but whom God commendeth.