Qorintiym Sheniy — Chapter 10

Now I myself, Paulos, urge you through the gentleness and reasonableness of the Anointed— I who, when face to face, am humble among you, but when absent, am bold toward you.

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But I ask that when present I may not need to be bold with the confidence with which I reckon to dare against some who reckon us as walking according to flesh.

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For though we walk in flesh, we do not wage war according to flesh.

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For the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly, but powerful through Elohim for tearing down strongholds,

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tearing down reasonings and every high thing raising itself against the knowledge of Elohim, and taking captive every thought into obedience of the Anointed,

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and being ready to correct every disobedience whenever your obedience is completed.

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You look at what is before the face. If anyone is confident in himself that he belongs to the Anointed, let him reckon this again from himself: that just as he belongs to the Anointed, so also do we.

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For even if I boast somewhat more concerning our authority, which the Master gave for building you and not for tearing you down, I shall not be put to shame.

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I do not desire to appear as though I am terrifying you through the letters.

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

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Let such a one reckon this: that what we are in word through letters when absent, such we shall also be in deed when present.

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For we do not dare to classify ourselves or compare ourselves with some who recommend themselves. But they, measuring themselves by themselves and comparing themselves with themselves, do not understand.

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But we shall not boast beyond measure, but according to the measure of the boundary which Elohim distributed to us— a measure reaching even to you.

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For we are not overextending ourselves as though we had not reached to you, for we came even as far as you in the Besorah of the Anointed.

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Not boasting beyond measure in the labors of others, but having hope that as your trust increases, we shall be enlarged among you according to our boundary to abundance,

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so that we may proclaim the Besorah in the regions beyond you, not boasting in what is ready within another’s boundary.

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But: “Let the one who boasts boast in Yahuah.”

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For not the one who recommends himself is approved, but the one whom Yahuah recommends.

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