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2 Corinthians 10:8 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" For even if I boast somewhat abundantly concerning our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for casting you down, I will not be ashamed, "

2 Corinthians 10:8

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6 and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience when your obedience is made full.

7 Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again with himself, that even as he is Christ’s, so we also are Christ’s.

8 For even if I boast somewhat abundantly concerning our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for casting you down, I will not be ashamed,

9 that I may not seem as if I desire to terrify you by my letters.

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

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2 Corinthians 10:1

"Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you."

2 Corinthians 10:2

"Yes, I beg you that I may not, when present, show courage with the confidence with which I intend to be bold against some, who consider us to be walking according to the flesh."

2 Corinthians 10:3

"For though we walk in the flesh, we don’t wage war according to the flesh;"

2 Corinthians 10:4

"for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds,"

2 Corinthians 10:5

"throwing 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,"

2 Corinthians 10:6

"and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience when your obedience is made full."

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