2 Corinthians 10:1-11 ▼

1 Now I, Paul, myself exhort you? by the mildness and gentleness of Christ—I who indeed as to presence am humble among you?, but being absent am bold toward you?.

2 Now I implore you that being present, I need not to be bold with the confidence with which I reckon to be daring toward some reckoning us as walking according to the flesh.

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

4 For the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly, but powerful before God toward the tearing down of strongholds,

5 tearing down arguments and every high thing lifting itself up against the knowledge of God, and taking captive every thought into the obedience of Christ,

6 and having readiness within to avenge all disobedience, when your? obedience shall have been fulfilled.

7 You? are looking at things according to appearance. If anyone has been persuaded in himself to be of Christ, let him reckon this upon himself again, that as he is of Christ, so also are we.

8 For even if I should boast somewhat more abundantly concerning our authority, which the Lord gave us for building up and not for tearing you? down, I will not be ashamed,

9 so that I might not seem as if to frighten you? through the letters.

10 For they say, “The letters indeed are weighty and strong, but the presence of the body is weak, and the word is of no account.”

11 Let such a one reckon this, that such as we are in word through letters being absent, also such we are in deed being present.