2 Corinthians 10:1-6
PAUL'S APOSTOLIC AUTHORITY. Paul does not care to use his authority with severity:... [ Continue Reading ]
PAUL'S APOSTOLIC AUTHORITY. Paul does not care to use his authority with severity:... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW I, PAUL, MYSELF BESEECH YOU BY THE MEEKNESS AND GENTLENESS OF CHRIST, WHO IN PRESENCE AM BASE AMONG YOU, BUT, BEING ABSENT, AM BOLD TOWARD YOU;... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT I BESEECH YOU THAT I MAY NOT BE BOLD WHEN I AM PRESENT WITH THAT CONFIDENCE WHEREWITH I THINK TO BE BOLD AGAINST SOME, WHICH THINK OF US AS IF WE WALKED ACCORDING TO THE FLESH.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THOUGH WE WALK IN THE FLESH, WE DO NOT WAR AFTER THE FLESH,... [ Continue Reading ]
(FOR THE WEAPONS OF OUR WARFARE ARE NOT CARNAL, BUT MIGHTY THROUGH GOD TO THE PULLING DOWN OF STRONGHOLDS,)... [ Continue Reading ]
CASTING DOWN IMAGINATIONS, AND EVERY HIGH THING THAT EXALTETH ITSELF AGAINST THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD, AND BRINGING INTO CAPTIVITY EVERY THOUGHT TO THE OBEDIENCE OF CHRIST,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HAVING IN A READINESS TO REVENGE ALL DISOBEDIENCE WHEN YOUR OBEDIENCE IS FULFILLED. While Titus had brought encouraging news from Corinth with regard to the case of church discipline and the continued willingness of the Corinthian Christians to take part in the collection for the poor at Jerusa... [ Continue Reading ]
DO YE LOOK ON THINGS AFTER THE OUTWARD APPEARANCE? IF ANY MAN TRUST TO HIMSELF THAT HE IS CHRIST'S, LET HIM OF HIMSELF THINK THIS AGAIN, THAT, AS HE IS CHRIST'S, EVEN SO ARE WE CHRIST'S.... [ Continue Reading ]
Paul's authority is powerful:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THOUGH I SHOULD BOAST SOMEWHAT MORE OF OUR AUTHORITY, WHICH THE LORD HATH GIVEN US FOR EDIFICATION AND NOT FOR YOUR DESTRUCTION, I SHOULD NOT BE ASHAMED,... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT I MAY NOT SEEM AS IF I WOULD TERRIFY YOU BY LETTERS.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR HIS LETTERS, SAY THEY, ARE WEIGHTY AND POWERFUL, BUT HIS BODILY PRESENCE IS WEAK AND HIS SPEECH CONTEMPTIBLE.... [ Continue Reading ]
LET SUCH AN ONE THINK THIS, THAT, SUCH AS WE ARE IN WORD BY LETTERS WHEN WE ARE ABSENT, SUCH WILL WE BE ALSO IN DEED WHEN WE ARE PRESENT. With this thought, that he will duly avenge all disobedience to his apostolic preaching, Paul returns to the thought of v. 1, since his slanderers had construed h... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR WE DARE NOT MAKE OURSELVES OF THE NUMBER, OR COMPARE OURSELVES WITH SOME THAT COMMEND THEMSELVES; BUT THEY, MEASURING THEMSELVES BY THEMSELVES AND COMPARING THEMSELVES AMONG THEMSELVES, ARE NOT WISE.... [ Continue Reading ]
Paul appeals to the work actually done by him as apostle:... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT WE WILL NOT BOAST OF THINGS WITHOUT OUR MEASURE, BUT ACCORDING TO THE MEASURE OF THE RULE WHICH GOD HATH DISTRIBUTED TO US, A MEASURE TO REACH EVEN UNTO YOU.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR WE STRETCH NOT OURSELVES BEYOND OUR MEASURE, AS THOUGH WE REACHED UNTO YOU; FOR WE ARE COME AS FAR AS TO YOU ALSO IN PREACHING THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST,... [ Continue Reading ]
NOT BOASTING OF THINGS WITHOUT OUR MEASURE, THAT IS, OF OTHER MEN'S LABORS, BUT HAVING HOPE, WHEN YOUR FAITH IS INCREASED, THAT WE SHALL BE ENLARGED BY YOU ACCORDING TO OUR RULE ABUNDANTLY,... [ Continue Reading ]
TO PREACH THE GOSPEL IN THE REGIONS BEYOND YOU, AND NOT TO BOAST IN ANOTHER MAN'S LINE OF THINGS MADE READY TO OUR HAND.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT HE THAT GLORIES, LET HIM GLORY IN THE LORD.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR NOT HE THAT COMMENDETH HIMSELF IS APPROVED, BUT WHOM THE LORD COMMENDETH. The outstanding feature of Paul's ministry was that, unlike his arrogant opponents, he had confined himself to the work with which he had been charged and had riot meddled in the affairs of others. With a fine display of i... [ Continue Reading ]