These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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2 Corinthians 10
Brit Hadashah 18 verses
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But as for me , I entreat you by the gentleness and self-forgetfulness of —I who when among you have not an imposing personal presence, but when absent am fearlessly outspoken in dealing with you.
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Matthew 11:29 2 Corinthians 10:10 Romans 12:1 Galatians 5:2 Zechariah 9:9 1 Corinthians 2:3 Philemon 1:9 Romans 10:20 2 Corinthians 7:4 Matthew 21:5 Isaiah 42:3-4 2 Corinthians 3:12 1 Corinthians 4:10 2 Corinthians 10:2 2 Corinthians 10:7 1 Corinthians 16:21-22 2 Corinthians 5:20 1 Peter 2:22-23 Ephesians 4:1 Psalm 45:4 2 Corinthians 6:1 2 Corinthians 12:7-9 1 Peter 2:11 Romans 15:15 Matthew 12:19-20 2 Corinthians 11:21 2 Corinthians 13:2-4 Galatians 4:13 Revelation 1:9 2 Thessalonians 3:17 Acts 8:32 2 Corinthians 11:30 2 Corinthians 12:5 - 2 I beseech you not to compel me when present to make a bold display of the confidence with which I reckon I shall show my ‘courage’ against some who reckon that we are guided by worldly principles.
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For, though we are still living in the world, it is no worldly warfare that we are waging.
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The weapons with which we fight are not human weapons, but are mighty for in overthrowing strong fortresses.
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Jeremiah 1:10 2 Corinthians 6:7 2 Corinthians 13:3-4 1 Corinthians 2:5 1 Timothy 1:18 Ephesians 6:13-18 1 Thessalonians 5:8 2 Corinthians 4:7 Isaiah 41:14-16 Hebrews 11:30 Joshua 6:20 1 Samuel 17:45-50 Hebrews 11:32-33 Psalm 110:2 Acts 7:22 Judges 15:14-16 Isaiah 30:25 1 Corinthians 9:7 Romans 6:13 Judges 7:13-23 Zechariah 4:6-7 1 Corinthians 1:18-24 2 Corinthians 13:10 2 Corinthians 3:5 Romans 13:12 2 Timothy 2:3 -
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For we overthrow arrogant ‘reckonings,’ and every stronghold that towers high in defiance of the knowledge of , and we carry off every thought as if into slavery—into subjection to ;
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Matthew 15:19 Romans 7:23 1 Peter 1:14-15 Isaiah 55:7 Isaiah 2:11-12 Hebrews 4:12 Romans 1:21 Jeremiah 4:14 1 Corinthians 1:19 Psalm 10:4 1 Corinthians 3:19 Hebrews 5:9 Romans 16:26 1 Peter 1:22 2 Thessalonians 2:8 Psalm 139:2 Isaiah 2:17 2 Corinthians 9:13 2 Kings 19:22 Proverbs 15:26 Job 40:11-12 2 Kings 19:28 Isaiah 59:7 Philippians 3:4-9 Romans 1:5 Acts 9:4-6 Psalm 110:2-3 Exodus 5:2 Deuteronomy 15:9 2 Thessalonians 2:4 Matthew 11:29-30 Proverbs 24:9 Psalm 18:44 Exodus 9:16-17 Daniel 4:37 Daniel 5:23-30 Luke 1:51 Psalm 18:27 Acts 4:25-26 1 Corinthians 1:27-29 Isaiah 60:14 Ezekiel 17:24 Genesis 8:21 Job 42:6 1 Peter 1:2 - 6 while we hold ourselves in readiness to punish every act of disobedience, as soon as ever you as a Church have fully shown your obedience.
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Is it outward appearances you look to? If any man is confident as regards himself that he specially belongs to , let him consider again and reflect that just as he belongs to , so also do we.
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2 Corinthians 5:12 1 Corinthians 14:37 John 7:24 2 Corinthians 11:23 1 Corinthians 9:1 1 Corinthians 3:23 Galatians 3:29 1 John 4:6 1 Corinthians 1:12 2 Corinthians 11:4 Matthew 23:5 1 Samuel 16:7 Luke 16:15 Galatians 2:5-9 2 Corinthians 12:11 1 Corinthians 15:23 2 Corinthians 11:18 Romans 2:28-29 Galatians 1:11-13 2 Corinthians 13:3 2 Corinthians 10:1 - 8 If, however, I were to boast more loudly of our Apostolic authority, which the Lord has given us that we may build you up, not pull you down, I should have no reason to feel ashamed.
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Let it not seem as if I wanted to frighten you by my letters.
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- 10 For they say “His letters are authoritative and forcible, but his personal presence is unimpressive, and as for eloquence, he has none.”
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Let such people take this into their reckoning, that whatever we are in by our letters when absent, the same are we also in act when present.
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- 12 For we have not the ‘courage’ to rank ourselves among, or compare ourselves with, certain persons distinguished by their self-commendation. Yet they are not wise, measuring themselves, as they do, by one another and comparing themselves with one another.
- 13 We, however, will not exceed due limits in our boasting, but will keep within the limits of the sphere which has assigned to us as a limit, which reaches even to you.
- 14 For there is no undue stretch of authority on our part, as though it did not extend to you. We pressed on even to Corinth, and were the first to proclaim to you the Good News of the .
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We do not exceed our due limits, and take credit for other men’s labours; but we entertain the that, as your grows, we shall gain promotion among you—still keeping within our own sphere—promotion to a larger field of labour,
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and shall tell the Good News in the districts beyond you, not boasting in another man’s sphere about work already done by him.
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- 17 But “whoever boasts, let his boast be about the Lord.”
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For it is not the man that commends himself who is really approved, but he whom the Lord commends.
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Romans 2:29 2 Corinthians 10:12 1 Corinthians 4:5 Proverbs 27:2 2 Corinthians 6:4 1 Peter 1:7 Luke 16:15 John 5:42-44 Proverbs 21:2 Romans 16:10 2 Corinthians 13:7 2 Timothy 2:15 Romans 14:18 Luke 18:10-14 Matthew 25:20-23 Acts 2:22 1 Corinthians 11:19 John 12:43 2 Corinthians 3:1 2 Corinthians 5:12