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2 Corinthians 10:8

For even if I boast somewhat further about our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for destroying you, I will not be put to shame,

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2 Corinthians 10:9

for I do not wish to seem as if I would terrify you by my letters.

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2 Corinthians 10:10

For they say, "His letters are weighty and strong, but his personal presence is unimpressive and his speech contemptible."

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2 Corinthians 10:11

Let such a person consider this, that what we are in word by letters when absent, such persons we are also in deed when present.

2 Corinthians 10:12

For we are not bold to class or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves; but when they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are without understanding.

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2 Corinthians 10:13

But we will not boast beyond our measure, but within the measure of the sphere which God apportioned to us as a measure, to reach even as far as you.

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2 Corinthians 10:14

For we are not overextending ourselves, as if we did not reach to you, for we were the first to come even as far as you in the gospel of Christ;

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2 Corinthians 10:15

not boasting beyond our measure, that is, in other men's labors, but with the hope that as your faith grows, we will be, within our sphere, enlarged even more by you,

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2 Corinthians 10:16

so as to preach the gospel even to the regions beyond you, and not to boast in what has been accomplished in the sphere of another.

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