The Concordant Literal New Testament

Paul To The Corinthians (II.)

¹ Now I, Paul, myself am entreating you, through the meekness and leniency of Christ, who, as to personal appearance, indeed, am humble among you, yet, being absent, have courage toward you.
² Yet I am beseeching, that I may not, being present, have to have courage with the confidence with which I am reckoning to dare any who reckon us as walking according to the flesh,
³ For, walking in flesh, we are not warring according to the flesh.
⁴ For the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly, but powerful to God toward the pulling down of bulwarks;
⁵ pulling down reckonings and every height elevating itself against the knowledge of God, and leading into captivity every apprehension into the obedience of Christ,
⁶ and having all in readiness to avenge every disobedience, whenever your obedience may be completed.
⁷ Are you looking at that on the surface? If anyone is presuming to have confidence in himself to be Christ's, let him be reckoning this again with himself, that, according as he is Christ's, thus also are we.
⁸ For if ever I, besides, should also be boasting somewhat more excessively concerning our authority (which the Lord gives us for building you up and not for pulling you down),
⁹ lest I should seem as ever terrifying you through epistles,
¹⁰ seeing that he is averring, "His epistles, indeed, are weighty and strong, yet his bodily presence is weak and his expression to be scorned."
¹¹ Let such a one be reckoning this, that such as we are in word, through epistles, being absent, such also, being present, are we in act.
¹² For we are not daring to judge ourselves by, or compare ourselves with, some who are commending themselves. But they, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, do not understand.
¹³ Now we shall not be boasting immeasurably, but according to the measure of our range -- which measure God parts to us -- to reach on as far as you also
¹⁴ (for it is not as though, not reaching on to you, we are overstretching ourselves, for we outstrip others even as far as you in the evangel of Christ),
¹⁵ not boasting immeasurably in others' toils, yet having the expectation, your faith growing, to be magnified among you superabundantly,
¹⁶ according to our range, so as to bring the evangel beyond you, not to boast in another's range over that which is ready.
¹⁷ Now he who is boasting, in the Lord let him be boasting.
¹⁸ For not he who is commending himself is qualified, but whom the Lord is commending.

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