Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly 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 Yes, I beg you that I may not, when present, show courage with the confidence with which I intend to be bold against some, who consider us to be walking 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 don’t wage war according to 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 of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds, 2Co 6:7Eph 6:13-18Jer 1:101Co 2:51Sa 17:45-502Co 13:3-41Ti 1:18Zec 4:6-7 throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, Heb 4:12Isa 55:71Pe 1:14-15Rom 7:23Mat 15:19Rom 1:21Jer 4:141Co 3:19 and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience when your obedience is made full. 2Co 2:9Num 16:26-302Co 7:151Co 5:3-52Co 13:2Act 5:3-112Co 13:10Act 13:10-11
Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again with himself, that even as he is Christ’s, so we also are Christ’s. Jhn 7:241Co 14:372Co 5:122Co 11:231Co 3:231Co 9:11Jn 4:61Co 1:12 For even if I boast somewhat abundantly concerning our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for casting you down, I will 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 desire to terrify you by my letters. 1Co 4:19-211Co 4:52Co 10:10 For, “His letters”, they say, “are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised.” 1Co 1:17Exo 4:102Co 11:62Co 12:5-9Gal 4:13-14Jer 1:61Co 2:1-41Co 1:21 Let such a person consider this, that what we are in word by letters when we are absent, such are we also in deed when we are present. 2Co 12:202Co 13:102Co 13:2-31Co 4:19-20
For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding. Pro 27:2Pro 26:122Co 10:18Luk 18:11Rom 15:182Co 3:1Pro 25:272Co 5:12 But we will not boast beyond proper limits, but within the boundaries with which God appointed to us, which reach even to you. 1Pe 4:10Rom 12:62Co 10:14-15Eph 4:7Rom 12:3Rom 15:201Co 12:11Isa 28:17 For we don’t stretch ourselves too much, as though we didn’t reach to you. For we came even as far as to you with the Good News of Christ, Rom 1:161Co 4:151Ti 1:111Co 2:101Co 3:5-61Co 9:1-22Co 2:122Co 3:1-3 not boasting beyond proper limits in other men’s labors, but having hope that as your faith grows, we will be abundantly enlarged by you in our sphere of influence, 2Th 1:3Rom 15:202Co 10:13Act 5:13 so as to preach the Good News even to the parts beyond you, not to boast in what someone else has already done. Rom 15:24-28Act 19:21 But “he who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.” 1 Jer 9:23-241Co 1:31Jas 1:9-10Isa 65:16Psa 105:31Co 1:29Jer 4:2Php 3:3 For it isn’t he who commends himself who is approved, but whom the Lord commends. Pro 21:2Luk 16:151Co 4:5Rom 2:292Co 10:12Jhn 12:43Luk 18:10-14Jhn 5:42-44