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Paul Describes Himself
Now I, Paul, myself urge you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ — I who am meek when face to face with you, but bold toward you when absent!
Now I, Paul, myself urge you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ — I who am meek when face to face with you, but bold toward you when absent!
Paul Defends his Ministry
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;
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;
I ask that when I am present I need not be bold with the confidence with which I propose to be courageous against some, who regard us as if we walked 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.
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh,
For walking in flesh, we do not war according to flesh.
for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses.
For the arms of our warfare [are] not fleshly, but powerful according to God to [the] overthrow of strongholds;
We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive 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;
and we are ready to punish all disobedience, whenever your obedience is complete.
and having in readiness to avenge all disobedience when your obedience shall have been fulfilled.
You are looking at things as they are outwardly. If anyone is confident in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again within himself, that just as he is Christ’s, so also are we.
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.
For even if I boast somewhat further about our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for destroying you, I will not be put to shame,
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;
for I do not wish to seem as if I would terrify you by my letters.
that I may not seem as if I was frightening you by letters:
For they say, “His letters are weighty and strong, but his personal presence is unimpressive and his speech contemptible.”
because his letters, he says, [are] weighty and strong, but his presence in the body weak, and his speech naught.
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.
Let such a one think this, that such as we are in word by letters [when] absent, such also present in deed.
For we are not bold to class or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves; but when they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they 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.
But we will not boast beyond our measure, but within the measure of the sphere which God apportioned to us as a measure, to reach even as far as 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.
For we are not overextending ourselves, as if we did not reach to you, for we were the first to come even as far as you in the gospel 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;)
not boasting beyond our measure, that is, in other men’s labors, but with the hope that as your faith grows, we will be, within our sphere, enlarged even more by you,
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
so as to preach the gospel even to the regions beyond you, and not to boast in what has been accomplished in the sphere of another.
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.