dynamicbible/bibles/asv/47-10.json

{"ch":10,"vss":[{"v":1,"w":[{"t":"Now I Paul myself entreat you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am of good courage toward you:"}]},{"v":2,"w":[{"t":"yea, I beseech you, that I may not when present show courage with the confidence wherewith I count to be bold against some, who count of us as if we walked according to the flesh."}]},{"v":3,"w":[{"t":"For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh"}]},{"v":4,"w":[{"t":"(for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the casting down of strongholds),"}]},{"v":5,"w":[{"t":"casting 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;"}]},{"v":6,"w":[{"t":"and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience, when your obedience shall be made full."}]},{"v":7,"w":[{"t":"Ye look at the things that are before your face. If any man trusteth in himself that he is Christ`s, let him consider this again with himself, that, even as he is Christ`s, so also are we."}]},{"v":8,"w":[{"t":"For though I should glory somewhat abundantly concerning our authority (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down), I shall not be put to shame:"}]},{"v":9,"w":[{"t":"that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by my letters."}]},{"v":10,"w":[{"t":"For, His letters, they say, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account."}]},{"v":11,"w":[{"t":"Let such a one reckon this, that, what we are in word by letters when we are absent, such [are we] also in deed when we are present."}]},{"v":12,"w":[{"t":"For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with certain of them that commend themselves: but they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding."}]},{"v":13,"w":[{"t":"But we will not glory beyond [our] measure, but according to the measure of the province which God apportioned to us as a measure, to reach even unto you."}]},{"v":14,"w":[{"t":"For we stretch not ourselves overmuch, as though we reached not unto you: for we came even as far as unto you in the gospel of Christ:"}]},{"v":15,"w":[{"t":"not glorying beyond [our] measure, [that is,] in other men`s labors; but having hope that, as your faith groweth, we shall be magnified in you according to our province unto [further] abundance,"}]},{"v":16,"w":[{"t":"so as to preach the gospel even unto the parts beyond you, [and] not to glory in another`s province in regard of things ready to our hand."}]},{"v":17,"w":[{"t":"But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord."}]},{"v":18,"w":[{"t":"For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth."}]}]}