Epistle
2 Cor 9.12-10.7
Read in contextBrethren,
9:12For the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God;
9:13Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for [your] liberal distribution unto them, and unto all [men];
9:14And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you.
9:15Thanks [be] unto God for his unspeakable gift.
10:1Now 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:
10:2But 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.
10:3For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
10:4(For the weapons of our warfare [are] not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
10:5Casting 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;
10:6And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
10:7Do 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.