2 Cor 10:8 For even if I boast somewhat further about our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for destroying you, I will not be put to shame,
2 Cor 10:9 for I do not wish to seem as if I would terrify you by my letters.
2 Cor 10:10 For they say, "His letters are weighty and strong, but his personal presence is unimpressive and his speech contemptible."
2 Cor 10:11 Let such a person consider this, that what we are in word by letters when absent, such persons we are also in deed when present.
2 Cor 10:12 ¶ For we are not bold to class or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves; but when they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are without understanding.
2 Cor 10:13 But we will not boast beyond our measure, but within the measure of the sphere which God apportioned to us as a measure, to reach even as far as you.
2 Cor 10:14 For we are not overextending ourselves, as if we did not reach to you, for we were the first to come even as far as you in the gospel of Christ;
2 Cor 10:15 not boasting beyond our measure, thatis, in other men's labors, but with the hope that as your faith grows, we will be, within our sphere, enlarged even more by you,
2 Cor 10:16 so as to preach the gospel even to the regions beyond you, and not to boast in what has been accomplished in the sphere of another.
2 Cor 10:18 For it is not he who commends himself that is approved, but he whom the Lord commends.
2 Cor 11:1 I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness; but indeed you are bearing with me.
2 Cor 11:2 For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy; for I betrothed you to one husband, so that to Christ I might present you as a pure virgin.
2 Cor 11:3 But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ.
2 Cor 11:4 For if one comes and preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted, you bear this beautifully.
2 Cor 11:5 For I consider myself not in the least inferior to the most eminent apostles.
2 Cor 11:6 But even if I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not so in knowledge; in fact, in every way we have made this evident to you in all things.
2 Cor 11:7 ¶ Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself so that you might be exalted, because I preached the gospel of God to you without charge?
2 Cor 11:8 I robbed other churches by taking wages fromthem to serve you;
2 Cor 11:9 and when I was present with you and was in need, I was not a burden to anyone; for when the brethren came from Macedonia they fully supplied my need, and in everything I kept myself from being a burden to you, and will continue to do so.
2 Cor 11:10 As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be stopped in the regions of Achaia.