Now 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: 2Co 10:10Mat 11:29Gal 5:2Rom 12:1Isa 42:3-42Co 12:7-91Co 2:32Co 11:30 But 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. 2Co 13:102Co 13:2Gal 5:16-25Eph 2:2-31Co 4:18-212Co 12:13-202Co 11:9-13Rom 8:1 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: 2Co 10:41Pe 4:1-2Gal 2:20Rom 8:132Ti 2:3-41Ti 1:182Ti 4:7Heb 12:1 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) 2Co 6:7Eph 6:13-18Jer 1:101Co 2:51Sa 17:45-502Co 13:3-41Ti 1:18Zec 4:6-7 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; Heb 4:12Isa 55:71Pe 1:14-15Rom 7:23Mat 15:19Rom 1:21Jer 4:141Co 3:19 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled. 2Co 2:9Num 16:26-302Co 7:151Co 5:3-52Co 13:2Act 5:3-112Co 13:10Act 13:10-11 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 is Christ’s, even so are we Christ’s. Jhn 7:241Co 14:372Co 5:122Co 11:231Co 3:231Co 9:11Jn 4:61Co 1:12 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: 2Co 13:102Ti 1:122Co 1:242Co 12:62Co 13:2-32Co 13:8Gal 1:12Co 7:14 That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters. 1Co 4:19-211Co 4:52Co 10:10 For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible. 1Co 1:17Exo 4:102Co 11:62Co 12:5-9Gal 4:13-14Jer 1:61Co 2:1-41Co 1:21 Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when we are present. 2Co 12:202Co 13:102Co 13:2-31Co 4:19-20 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. Pro 27:2Pro 26:122Co 10:18Luk 18:11Rom 15:182Co 3:1Pro 25:272Co 5:12 But we will not boast of things without our measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you. 1Pe 4:10Rom 12:62Co 10:14-15Eph 4:7Rom 12:3Rom 15:201Co 12:11Isa 28:17 For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ: Rom 1:161Co 4:151Ti 1:111Co 2:101Co 3:5-61Co 9:1-22Co 2:122Co 3:1-3 Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, 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, 2Th 1:3Rom 15:202Co 10:13Act 5:13 To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man’s line of things made ready to our hand. Rom 15:24-28Act 19:21 But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. Jer 9:23-241Co 1:31Jas 1:9-10Isa 65:16Psa 105:31Co 1:29Jer 4:2Php 3:3 For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth. Pro 21:2Luk 16:151Co 4:5Rom 2:292Co 10:12Jhn 12:43Luk 18:10-14Jhn 5:42-44