Chapter 10

Against the false Apostles granting the infirmity of his person, he doth notwithstanding set out the power of his Apostleship, ℣.12 reprehending them also for challenging to themselves the praise of other men's labours.

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   And I mildness and modesty of Christ, who in presence indeed am humble among you, , Paul my self beseech you by the but absent am bold on you.

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   But I beseech you, that being present I need not be bold by that confidence wherewith I am thought to be bold against some: which think us as though we walk according to the flesh.

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

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   For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal: but mighty to God unto the destruction of munitions, destroying counsels,

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   and all loftiness extolling itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity all understanding unto the obedience of Christ,

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   and having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience shall be fulfilled.

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   See the things that are according to appearance. If any man have affiance in himself, that he is Christ's: let him think this again with himself, that as he is Christ's, so we also.

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   For and if I should glory some-what more of our power, which our Lord hath given us unto edification and not to your destruction; I shall not be ashamed.

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   But that I may not be thought as it were to terrify you by epistles

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    (for his epistles indeed, say they, are sore and vehement; but his bodily presence weak, & his speech contemptible)

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    let him this think that is such a one, that such as we are in word by epistles, absent: such also we are in deed, present.

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    For we dare not match or compare our selves with certain, that commend themselves: but we measure our selves in our selves, & compare our selves to our selves.

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    But we will not glory above our measure: but according to the measure of the rule; which God hath measured to us, a measure to reach even unto you.

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    For not, as though we reached not unto you, do we extend ourselves beyond. For we are come as far as to you in the Gospel of Christ.

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    not glorying above measure in other men's labours: but having hope of your faith increasing, to be magnified in you according to our rule aboundantly,

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    yea unto those places that are beyond you, to evangelize, not in an other man's rule, to glory in those things that are prepared before.

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    But he that glorieth, let him glory in our Lord.

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    For not he that commendeth himself, the same is approved; but whom God commendeth.