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9:15. Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift.
2 Corinthians Chapter 10
To stop the calumny and boasting of false apostles, he set forth the
power of his apostleship.
10:1. Now I Paul, myself beseech you, by the mildness and modesty of
Christ: who in presence indeed am lowly among you, but being absent am
bold toward you.
10:2. But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with
that confidence wherewith I am thought to be bold, against some who
reckon us as if we walked according to the flesh.
10:3. For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the
flesh.
10:4. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty to God,
unto the pulling down of fortifications, destroying counsels,
10:5. And every height that exalteth itself against the knowledge of
God: and bringing into captivity every understanding unto the obedience
of Christ:
10:6. And having in readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your
obedience shall be fulfilled.
10:7. See the things that are according to outward appearance. If any
man trust to himself, that he is Christ's let him think this again with
himself, that as he is Christ's, so are we also.
10:8. For if also I should boast somewhat more of our power, which the
Lord hath given us unto edification and not for your destruction, I
should not be ashamed.
10:9. But that I may not be thought as it were to terrify you by
epistles,
10:10. (For his epistles indeed, say they, are weighty and strong; but
his bodily presence is weak and his speech contemptible):
10:11. Let such a one think this, that such as we are in word by
epistles when absent, such also we will be indeed when present.
10:12. For we dare not match or compare ourselves with some that commend
themselves: but we measure ourselves by ourselves and compare ourselves
with ourselves.
10:13. But we will not glory beyond our measure: but according to the
measure of the rule which God hath measured to us, a measure to reach
even unto you.
10:14. For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as if we reached
not unto you. For we are come as far as to you in the Gospel of Christ.
10:15. Not glorying beyond measure in other men's labours: but having
hope of your increasing faith, to be magnified in you according to our
rule abundantly.
10:16. Yea, unto those places that are beyond you to preach the gospel:
not to glory in another man's rule, in those things that are made ready
to our hand.
10:17. But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
10:18. For not he who commendeth himself is approved: but he, whom God
commendeth.
2 Corinthians Chapter 11
He is forced to commend himself and his labours, lest the Corinthians
should be imposed upon by the false apostles.
11:1. Would to God you could bear with some little of my folly! But do
bear with me.
My folly... So he calls his reciting his own praises, which, commonly
speaking is looked upon as a piece of folly and vanity; though the
apostle was constrained to do it, for the good of the souls committed to
his charge.
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