10:1 Now I Paul myself entreat you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am of good courage toward you:

10:2 yea, I beseech you, that I may not when present show courage with the confidence wherewith I count to be bold against some, who count of 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 of the flesh, but mighty before God to the casting down of strongholds),

10:5 casting 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;

10:6 and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience, when your obedience shall be made full.

10:7 Ye look at the things that are before your face. If any man trusteth in himself that he is Christ`s, let him consider this again with himself, that, even as he is Christ`s, so also are we.

10:8 For though I should glory somewhat abundantly concerning our authority (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down), I shall not be put to shame:

10:9 that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by my letters.

10:10 For, His letters, they say, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account.

10:11 Let such a one reckon this, that, what we are in word by letters when we are absent, such [are we] also in deed when we are present.

10:12 For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with certain of them that commend themselves: but they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.

10:13 But we will not glory beyond [our] measure, but according to the measure of the province which God apportioned to us as a measure, to reach even unto you.

10:14 For we stretch not ourselves overmuch, as though we reached not unto you: for we came even as far as unto you in the gospel of Christ:

10:15 not glorying beyond [our] measure, [that is,] in other men`s labors; but having hope that, as your faith groweth, we shall be magnified in you according to our province unto [further] abundance,

10:16 so as to preach the gospel even unto the parts beyond you, [and] not to glory in another`s province in regard of things ready to our hand.

10:17 But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.