2 Corinthians 10:4-18 ▼

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.

12 For we do not dare to classify or to compare ourselves with some commending themselves. But these, measuring themselves by themselves and comparing themselves with themselves, do not understand.

13 But we will not boast unto the things without measure, but according to the measure of the area that God apportioned to us, a measure to reach even as far as you?.

14 For we are not overextending ourselves, as not reaching to you?. For we came also as far as you? in the gospel of Christ,

15 not boasting unto the things without measure in others’ labors, but having hope of your? faith increasing among you? to be enlarged according to our area, to abundance,

16 so as to preach the gospel in the places beyond you?, not to boast in the things ready in another’s area.

17 But, “The one boasting, let him boast in the Lord.”

18 For the one commending himself, that one is not approved, but the one whom the Lord commends.