1 Now AGal 5:2; Eph 3:1; Col 1:23I, Paul, myself BRom 12:1urge you by the CMatt 11:29; 1 Cor 4:21; Phil 4:5meekness and gentleness of Christ—I who D1 Cor 2:3f; 2 Cor 10:10am 1Lit lowlymeek when face to face with you, but bold toward you when absent! 2 I ask that A1 Cor 4:21; 2 Cor 13:2, 10when I am present I need not be bold with the confidence with which I propose to be courageous against B1 Cor 4:18fsome, who regard us as if we walked CRom 8:4; 2 Cor 1:17according to the flesh. 3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war ARom 8:4; 2 Cor 1:17according to the flesh, 4 for the A1 Cor 9:7; 2 Cor 6:7; 1 Tim 1:18weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but 1Or mighty before Goddivinely powerful BJer 1:10; 2 Cor 10:8; 13:10for the destruction of fortresses. 5 We are destroying speculations and every AIs 2:11flofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the B2 Cor 9:13obedience of Christ, 6 and we are ready to punish all disobedience, whenever A2 Cor 2:9your obedience is complete.

7 1Or Look at... or Do you look at...?AJohn 7:24; 2 Cor 5:12You are looking at 2Lit what is before your facethings as they are outwardly. B1 Cor 1:12; 14:37If anyone is confident in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again within himself, that just as he is Christ’s, C1 Cor 9:1; 2 Cor 11:23; Gal 1:12so also are we. 8 For even if A2 Cor 7:4I boast somewhat 1Or more abundantlyfurther about our B2 Cor 13:10authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for destroying you, I will not be put to shame, 9 1Lit so that I may not seemfor I do not wish to seem as if I would terrify you by my letters. 10 For they say, “His letters are weighty and strong, but his 1Lit bodily presence is weakpersonal presence is A1 Cor 2:3; 2 Cor 12:7; Gal 4:13funimpressive and B1 Cor 1:17; 2 Cor 11:6his speech contemptible.” 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.

12 For we are not bold to class or compare ourselves with 1Or anysome of those who A2 Cor 3:1; 10:18commend themselves; but when they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are without understanding. 13 But we will not boast A2 Cor 10:15beyond our measure, but 1Lit according to the measureBRom 12:3; 2 Cor 10:15fwithin the measure of the sphere which God apportioned to us as a measure, to reach even as far as you. 14 For we are not overextending ourselves, as if we did not reach to you, for A1 Cor 3:6we were the first to come even as far as you in the B2 Cor 2:12gospel of Christ; 15 not boasting A2 Cor 10:13beyond our measure, that is, in BRom 15:20other men’s labors, but with the hope that as C2 Thess 1:3your faith grows, we will be, 1Lit according to our spherewithin our sphere, DActs 5:13enlarged even more by you, 16 so as to A2 Cor 11:7preach the gospel even to BActs 19:21the regions beyond you, and not to boast 1Lit to the things prepared in theCRom 15:20in what has been accomplished in the sphere of another. 17 But AJer 9:24; 1 Cor 1:31ʜᴇ wʜo ʙoᴀsᴛs ɪs ᴛo ʙoᴀsᴛ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ Loʀᴅ. 18 For it is not he who A2 Cor 10:12commends himself that is approved, but he BRom 2:29; 1 Cor 4:5whom the Lord commends.