哥林多後書 10
1 我保祿──就是那在你們中面對面時就謙卑，不在的時候就對你們膽大的──親自藉基督的溫良和良善勸告你們，
And I, Paul, myself, call on you—through the meekness and gentleness of the Christ—who in presence [am] indeed humble among you, and being absent, have courage toward you,
2 甚至求你們，不要叫我到你們那裏時，因果決而大了膽──這種果決，本來是我決意要對付那些，以我們為按照血肉而行事的人的──
and I implore [you], that, being present, I may not have courage, with the confidence with which I reckon to be bold against certain reckoning us as walking according to the flesh;
3 我們固然是在血肉中行事，卻不是按照血肉而交戰，
for walking in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh,
4 因為我們作戰的武器，不是屬於血肉的，而是憑天主有力的武器，足以攻破堅固的堡壘：攻破敵人詭計，
for the weapons of our warfare [are] not fleshly, but powerful to God for bringing down of strongholds,
5 以及一切為反對天主的智識所樹立的高塞，並擄獲一切人的心意，使之基督；
bringing down reasonings, and every high thing lifted up against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of the Christ,
6 並且我們已準備停當，及至你們完全a寺，來懲罰一切的不服從。
and being in readiness to avenge every disobedience whenever your obedience may be fulfilled.
7 你們看看擺在眼前的事實罷! 如果自信是屬於基督的，他自己該再想想：他怎樣屬於基督，我們也怎樣是；
You see the outward appearance. If anyone has trusted in himself to be Christ’s, let him reckon this again from himself, that according as he is Christ’s, so also we [are] Christ’s;
8 因為既便我對我們的權柄有一點過份的誇耀──這權柄是由主所賜與，為建樹，而不是為破壞你們的──我也不羞愧，
for even if I will also boast anything more abundantly concerning our authority, that the LORD gave us for building up, and not for casting you down, I will not be ashamed,
9 免得有人以為我好像只會藉著書信來恐嚇你們。
that I may not seem as if I would terrify you through the letters,
10 因為有人說：「他的書信的確嚴厲而又強硬，但他本人在時卻軟弱無能，言語又空洞可輕。」
“because the letters indeed,” says one, “[are] weighty and strong, and the bodily presence weak, and the speech despicable.”
11 這樣的人該想一想，我們不在的時候，寫信時在言語上是怎樣，我們來到的時候，在行事上也必是這樣。
This one—let him reckon thus: that such as we are in word, through letters, being absent, such also, being present, [we are] in deed.
12 其實；我們不敢拿自己與某些舉薦自己的人同例或相比：他們是以自己來度量自己，以自己來跟自己相比，這決不是明智。
For we do not make bold to rank or to compare ourselves with certain of those commending themselves, but they, measuring themselves among themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are not wise,
13 我們誇耀決不越過範圍，而只是按照天主所指給我們的界限範圍，照這範圍也一直達到你們那裏。
and we will not boast ourselves in regard to the unmeasured things, but after the measure of the line that the God of measure appointed to us—to reach even to you;
14 我們並沒有過於伸展自己，好像從沒有到達你們那裏似的，其實，是我們先帶著基督的福音，到了你們那裏的；
for we do not stretch ourselves too much, as not reaching to you, for even to you we came in the good news of the Christ,
15 我們共並沒有越過了範圍，以別人勞苦而誇耀；我們只希望因著你們信德的長進，在你們中按照指給我們的界限越發開展，
not boasting of the things not measured, in other men’s labors, and having hope—your faith increasing—in you to be enlarged, according to our line—into abundance,
16 以致將福音傳到你們以外的地方，但不在別人的界限內，以別人已成的事而誇耀。
to proclaim good news in the [places] beyond you, not in another’s line in regard to the things made ready, to boast;
17 『凡要誇耀的，應當因主而誇耀。』
and he who is boasting—let him boast in the LORD;
18 因為不是自己舉薦自己的，那人是可取的，而是天主所舉薦的。
for he who is commending himself is not approved, but he whom the LORD commends.
