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darby (darby) - eBible.org Darby 1890 plaintext
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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;
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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.
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For walking in flesh, we do not war according to flesh.
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For the arms of our warfare [are] not fleshly, but powerful according toGod to [the] overthrow of strongholds;
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overthrowing reasonings and every high thing that lifts itself up against the knowledge ofGod, and leading captive every thought into the obedience of the Christ;
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and having in readiness to avenge all disobedience when your obedience shall have been fulfilled.
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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.
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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;
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that I may not seem as if I was frightening you by letters:
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because his letters, he says, [are] weighty and strong, but his presence in the body weak, and his speech naught.
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Let such a one think this, that such as we are in word by letters [when] absent, such also present in deed.
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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.
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Now we will not boast out of measure, but according to the measure of the rule which theGod of measure has apportioned to us, to reach to you also.
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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;)
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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
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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.
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But he that boasts, let him boast in the Lord.
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For not he that commends himself is approved, but whom the Lord commends.
vul1914 (vul1914) - Vulgate 1914 UTF-8 (sacredbible.org)
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Ipse autem ego Paulus obsecro vos per mansuetudinem, et modestiam Christi, qui in facie quidem humilis sum inter vos, absens autem confido in vos.
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Rogo autem vos ne præsens audeam per eam confidentiam, qua existimor audere in quosdam, qui arbitrantur nos tamquam secundum carnem ambulemus.
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In carne enim ambulantes, non secundum carnem militamus.
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Nam arma militiæ nostræ non carnalia sunt, sed potentia Deo ad destructionem munitionum, consilia destruentes,
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et omnem altitudinem extollentem se adversus scientiam Dei, et in captivitatem redigentes omnem intellectum in obsequium Christi,
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et in promptu habentes ulcisci omnem inobedientiam, cum impleta fuerit vestra obedientia.
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Quæ secundum faciem sunt, videte. Si quis confidit sibi Christi se esse, hoc cogitet iterum apud se: quia sicut ipse Christi est, ita et nos.
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Nam, etsi amplius aliquid gloriatus fuero de potestate nostra, quam dedit nobis Dominus in ædificationem, et non in destructionem vestram: non erubescam.
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Ut autem non existimer tamquam terrere vos per epistolas:
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quoniam quidem epistolæ, inquiunt, graves sunt et fortes: præsentia autem corporis infirma, et sermo contemptibilis:
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hoc cogitet qui eiusmodi est, quia quales sumus verbo per epistolas absentes, tales et præsentes in facto.
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Non enim audemus inserere, aut comparare nos quibusdam, qui seipsos commendant: sed ipsi in nobis nosmetipsos metientes, et comparantes nosmetipsos nobis.
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Nos autem non in immensum gloriabimur, sed secundum mensuram regulæ, qua mensus est nobis Deus, mensuram pertingendi usque ad vos.
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Non enim quasi non pertingentes ad vos, superextendimus nos: usque ad vos enim pervenimus in Evangelio Christi.
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non in immensum gloriantes in alienis laboribus: spem autem habentes crescentis fidei vestræ, in vobis magnificari secundum regulam nostram in abundantiam,
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etiam in illa, quæ ultra vos sunt, evangelizare, non in aliena regula in iis quæ præparata sunt gloriari.
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Qui autem gloriatur, in Domino glorietur.
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Non enim qui seipsum commendat, ille probatus est: sed quem Deus commendat.
ylt (ylt) - Bible.com YLT98 plain UTF-8
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And I, Paul, myself, do call upon you--through the meekness and gentleness of the Christ--who in presence, indeed <FI>am<Fi> humble among you, and being absent, have courage toward you,
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and I beseech <FI>you<Fi> , that, being present, I may not have courage, with the confidence with which I reckon to be bold against certain reckoning us as walking according to the flesh;
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for walking in the flesh, not according to the flesh do we war,
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for the weapons of our warfare <FI>are<Fi> not fleshly, but powerful to God for bringing down of strongholds,
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reasonings bringing down, and every high thing lifted up against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of the Christ,
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and being in readiness to avenge every disobedience, whenever your obedience may be fulfilled.
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The things in presence do ye see? if any one hath trusted in himself to be Christ's, this let him reckon again from himself, that according as he is Christ's, so also we <FI>are<Fi> Christ's;
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for even if also anything more abundantly I shall boast concerning our authority, that the Lord gave us for building up, and not for casting you down, I shall not be ashamed;
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that I may not seem as if I would terrify you through the letters,
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`because the letters indeed--saith one--<FI> are<Fi> weighty and strong, and the bodily presence weak, and the speech despicable.'
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This one--let him reckon thus: that such as we are in word, through letters, being absent, such also, being present, <FI>we are<Fi> in deed.
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For we do not make bold to rank or to compare ourselves with certain of those commending themselves, but they, among themselves measuring themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are not wise,
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and we in regard to the unmeasured things will not boast ourselves, but after the measure of the line that the God of measure did appoint to us--to reach even unto you;
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for not as not reaching to you do we stretch ourselves overmuch, for even unto you did we come in the good news of the Christ,
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not boasting of the things not measured, in other men's labours, and having hope--your faith increasing--in you to be enlarged, according to our line--into abundance,
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in the <FI>places<Fi> beyond you to proclaim good news, not in another's line in regard to the things made ready, to boast;
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and he who is boasting--in the Lord let him boast;
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for not he who is commending himself is approved, but he whom the Lord doth commend.