Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
KJV
King James Version
Now by the mildness
and gentleness of Christ, I
appeal
to
you—I,
Paul,
who am humble
when
face
to
face
with
you, but bold when
away.
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:
I beg
you that when
I come
I
may not need
to
be as
bold as
I expect
toward
those
who
presume
that we live
according to the flesh.
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.
For though we live
in the flesh, we do not wage
war according
to
the flesh .
For though we walk
in the flesh, we do not war after
the flesh :
The weapons of our warfare are not the
weapons
of
the
world.
Instead
, they
have
divine
power
to demolish
strongholds.
(For
the weapons of our warfare are not carnal
, but
mighty
through
God
to the
pulling
down
of
strong
holds;)
We
tear
down arguments
and every presumption
set
up
against the knowledge of God ;
and we
take
captive
every thought to make
it
obedient
to
Christ .
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 ;
And we
will
be
ready
to punish
every
act
of
disobedience, as
soon
as
your obedience is complete
.
And having
in
a
readiness
to revenge
all
disobedience, when
your obedience is fulfilled
.
You
are
looking
at
outward appearances.
If anyone
is
confident
that he belongs
to
Christ
, he
should
remind
himself that we
belong
to
Christ
just
as
much
as he does
.
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
.
For even
if
I boast somewhat excessively
about
the
authority the Lord gave
us for building
you
up
rather
than
tearing
you
down
, I will
not be ashamed .
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 :
I do
not want
to
seem to
be
trying
to
frighten
you by my
letters.
That
I may
not seem as
if
I
would
terrify
you by letters.
For some
say,
“
His letters are weighty and forceful,
but his physical
presence is unimpressive
, and his speaking
is
of
no
account
. ”
For his letters ,
say
they,
are weighty and powerful;
but his bodily
presence is weak
, and his speech
contemptible
.
Such people
should
consider
that what
we are in our
letters when absent, we
will be in our
actions
when present.
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.
We do
not
dare to
classify
or compare ourselves with some who
commend themselves .
When
they measure
themselves by themselves and compare
themselves with
themselves, they
show
their
ignorance
.
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
.
We ,
however,
will not boast beyond
our limits
, but only
within
the field
of influence
that
God has
assigned
to us —
a field
that
reaches
even
to you.
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.
We are
not overstepping
our bounds
, as if
we had
not come
to
you .
Indeed,
we were
the
first
to reach
you with
the gospel of Christ .
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 :
Neither
do
we
boast
beyond
our limits
in
the
labors
of others.
But we
hope that
as
your faith increases
, our
area
of
influence
among
you will
greatly
increase
as
well
,
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
,
so
that
we
can
preach the gospel in the regions beyond you .
Then
we
will
not be
boasting
in
the
work
already
done
in another man’s
territory
.
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
.
Rather
, “
Let him who
boasts
boast
in the Lord. ”
But
he
that
glorieth
, let him glory
in the Lord.
For it
is
not the
one
who
commends
himself who
is approved, but the
one
whom the Lord commends
.
For not he
that
commendeth
himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth
.
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