 10:1  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:
 10:2  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.
 10:3  For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the
flesh:
 10:4  (For the weapons of our warfare [are] not carnal, but
mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
 10:5  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;
 10:6  And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience,
when your obedience is fulfilled.
 10:7  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.
 10:8  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:
 10:9  That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by
letters.
 10:10  For [his] letters, say they, [are] weighty and
powerful; but [his] bodily presence [is] weak, and [his] speech
contemptible.
 10:11  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.
 10:12  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.
 10:13  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.
 10:14  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:
 10:15  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,
 10:16  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.
 10:17  But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
 10:18  For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but
whom the Lord commendeth.
