Verse 8
2 Corinthians 10:8
Young's Literal Translation
8
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;
Original Language Text
greek
ἐάν ⸀τε ⸀γὰρ περισσότερόν τι καυχήσωμαι περὶ τῆς ἐξουσίας ἡμῶν, ἧς ἔδωκεν ὁ ⸀κύριος εἰς οἰκοδομὴν καὶ οὐκ εἰς καθαίρεσιν ὑμῶν, οὐκ αἰσχυνθήσομαι,
English Translation
For if I should boast more about our authority, which the Lord gave for building up and not for pulling down you, I will not be ashamed.
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Chapter 10 Context
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And I, Paul, myself, do call upon you -- through the meekness and gentleness of the Christ -- who in...
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and I beseech [you], that, being present, I may not have courage, with the confidence with which I r...
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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 [are] not fleshly, but powerful to God (Elohim) for bringing down of...
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reasonings bringing down, and every high thing lifted up against the knowledge of God (Elohim), and...
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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 re...
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for even if also anything more abundantly I shall boast concerning our authority, that the Lord gave...
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that I may not seem as if I would terrify you through the letters,
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10
'because the letters indeed -- saith one -- [are] weighty and strong, and the bodily presence weak,...
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This one -- let him reckon thus: that such as we are in word, through letters, being absent, such al...
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12
For we do not make bold to rank or to compare ourselves with certain of those commending themselves,...
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13
and we in regard to the unmeasured things will not boast ourselves, but after the measure of the lin...
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14
for not as not reaching to you do we stretch ourselves overmuch, for even unto you did we come in th...
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15
not boasting of the things not measured, in other men's labours, and having hope -- your faith incre...
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in the [places] beyond you to proclaim good news, not in another's line in regard to the things made...
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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.
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