2 Corinthians 10

1 Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.

But I myself, Paul, entreat you by the meekness and gentleness of the Christ, who, as to appearance, [when present] [am] mean among you, but absent am bold towards you;

2 Yes, I beg you that I may not, when present, show courage with the confidence with which I intend to be bold against some, who consider us to be walking according to the flesh.

but I beseech that present I may not be bold with the confidence with which I think to be daring towards some who think of us as walking according to flesh.

3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh;

For walking in flesh, we do not war according to flesh.

4 for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds,

For the arms of our warfare [are] not fleshly, but powerful according to God to [the] overthrow of strongholds;

5 throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

overthrowing reasonings and every high thing that lifts itself up against the knowledge of God, and leading captive every thought into the obedience of the Christ;

6 and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience when your obedience is made full.

and having in readiness to avenge all disobedience when your obedience shall have been fulfilled.

7 Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again with himself, that even as he is Christ’s, so we also are Christ’s.

Do ye look at what concerns appearance? If any one has confidence in himself that he is of Christ, let him think this again in himself, that even as he [is] of Christ, so also [are] we.

8 For even if I boast somewhat abundantly concerning our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for casting you down, I will not be ashamed,

For and if I should boast even somewhat more abundantly of our authority, which the Lord has given [to us] for building up and not for your overthrowing, I shall not be put to shame;

9 that I may not seem as if I desire to terrify you by my letters.

that I may not seem as if I was frightening you by letters:

10 For, “His letters”, they say, “are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised.”

because his letters, he says, [are] weighty and strong, but his presence in the body weak, and his speech naught.

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

Let such a one think this, that such as we are in word by letters [when] absent, such also present in deed.

12 For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.

For we dare not class ourselves or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves; but these, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are not intelligent.

13 But we will not boast beyond proper limits, but within the boundaries with which God appointed to us, which reach even to you.

Now we will not boast out of measure, but according to the measure of the rule which the God of measure has apportioned to us, to reach to you also.

14 For we do not stretch ourselves too much, as though we did not reach to you. For we came even as far as to you with the Good News of Christ,

For we do not, as not reaching to you, overstretch ourselves, (for we have come to you also in the glad tidings of the Christ; )

15 not boasting beyond proper limits in other men’s labors, but having hope that as your faith grows, we will be abundantly enlarged by you in our sphere of influence,

not boasting out of measure in other people's labours, but having hope, your faith increasing, to be enlarged amongst you, according to our rule, yet more abundantly

16 so as to preach the Good News even to the parts beyond you, not to boast in what someone else has already done.

to announce the glad tidings to that [which is] beyond you, not to be boasting in another's rule of things made ready to hand.

17 But “he who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.”

But he that boasts, let him boast in the Lord.

18 For it is not he who commends himself who is approved, but whom the Lord commends.

For not he that commends himself is approved, but whom the Lord commends.