{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/kjv/2-corinthians/10","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T03:50:12.474Z"},"reference":{"translation":"KJV","book":"2 Corinthians","bookSlug":"2-corinthians","chapter":10,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":9,"nextChapter":11,"totalChapters":13,"totalVerses":18},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence <i>am</i> base among you, but being absent am bold toward you:"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"But I beseech <i>you</i>, 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."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"(For the weapons of our warfare <i>are</i> not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Casting 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;"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Do 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 <i>is</i> Christ's, even so <i>are</i> we Christ's."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"For <i>his</i> letters, say they, <i>are</i> weighty and powerful; but <i>his</i> bodily presence <i>is</i> weak, and <i>his</i> speech contemptible."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such <i>will we be</i> also in deed when we are present."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"But we will not boast of things without <i>our</i> measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"For we stretch not ourselves beyond <i>our measure</i>, as though we reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in <i>preaching</i> the gospel of Christ:"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Not boasting of things without <i>our</i> measure, <i>that is</i>, of other men's labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly,"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"To preach the gospel in the <i>regions</i> beyond you, <i>and</i> not to boast in another man's line of things made ready to our hand."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth."}],"citation":{"inline":"2 Corinthians 10 (KJV)","markdown":"[2 Corinthians 10](https://primebible.com/kjv/2-corinthians/10)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* KJV. https://primebible.com/kjv/2-corinthians/10 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}