2 Corinthians 10:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Now I, Paul, myself make request to you by the quiet and gentle behaviour of Christ, I who am poor in spirit when with you, but who say what is in my mind to you without fear when I am away from you:

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  • Matt 11:29 : 29 Take my yoke on you and become like me, for I am gentle and without pride, and you will have rest for your souls;
  • 2 Cor 10:10 : 10 For his letters, they say, have weight and are strong; but in body he is feeble, and his way of talking has little force.
  • Gal 5:2 : 2 See, I Paul say to you, that if you undergo circumcision, Christ will be of no use to you.
  • Rom 12:1 : 1 For this reason I make request to you, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you will give your bodies as a living offering, holy, pleasing to God, which is the worship it is right for you to give him.
  • 1 Cor 2:3 : 3 And I was with you without strength, in fear and in doubt.
  • Zech 9:9 : 9 Be full of joy, O daughter of Zion; give a glad cry, O daughter of Jerusalem: see, your king comes to you: he is upright and has overcome; gentle and seated on an ass, on a young ass.
  • Eph 4:1 : 1 I then, the prisoner in the Lord, make this request from my heart, that you will see that your behaviour is a credit to the position which God's purpose has given you,
  • 2 Thess 3:17 : 17 These words of love to you at the end are in my writing, Paul's writing, and this is the mark of every letter from me.
  • Phlm 1:9 : 9 Still, because of love, in place of an order, I make a request to you, I, Paul, an old man and now a prisoner of Christ Jesus:
  • 1 Pet 2:11 : 11 My loved ones, I make this request with all my heart, that, as those for whom this world is a strange country, you will keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh which make war against the soul;
  • 1 Pet 2:22-23 : 22 Who did no evil, and there was no deceit in his mouth: 23 To sharp words he gave no sharp answer; when he was undergoing pain, no angry word came from his lips; but he put himself into the hands of the judge of righteousness:
  • Rev 1:9 : 9 I, John, your brother, who have a part with you in the trouble and the kingdom and the quiet strength of Jesus, was in the island which is named Patmos, for the word of God and the witness of Jesus.
  • 2 Cor 11:21 : 21 I say this by way of shaming ourselves, as if we had been feeble. But if anyone puts himself forward (I am talking like a foolish person), I will do the same.
  • 2 Cor 11:30 : 30 If I have to take credit to myself, I will do so in the things in which I am feeble.
  • 2 Cor 12:5 : 5 On account of such a one I will have glory: for myself I will take no glory, but only in my feeble body.
  • 2 Cor 12:7-9 : 7 And because the revelations were so very great, in order that I might not be overmuch lifted up, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, one sent from Satan to give me pain. 8 And about this thing I made request to the Lord three times that it might be taken away from me. 9 And he said to me, My grace is enough for you, for my power is made complete in what is feeble. Most gladly, then, will I take pride in my feeble body, so that the power of Christ may be on me.
  • 2 Cor 13:2-4 : 2 I said before, and still say it before I come, as being present for the second time, though I am still away from you, to those who have done wrong before, and to all the others, that if I come again I will not have pity; 3 Seeing that you are looking for a sign of Christ giving out his word in me; who is not feeble in relation to you, but is strong in you: 4 For he was feeble in that he was put to death on the cross, but he is living by the power of God. And we are feeble in him, but we will be living with him through the power of God in relation to you.
  • Gal 4:13 : 13 But you have knowledge that with a feeble body I was preaching the good news to you the first time;
  • 1 Cor 4:10 : 10 We are made to seem foolish for Christ, but you are wise in Christ; we are feeble, but you are strong; you have glory, but we have shame.
  • 1 Cor 16:21-22 : 21 I, Paul, send you these words of love in my writing. 22 If any man has not love for the Lord, let him be cursed. Maran atha (our Lord comes).
  • 2 Cor 3:12 : 12 Having then such a hope, we keep nothing back,
  • 2 Cor 5:20 : 20 So we are the representatives of Christ, as if God was making a request to you through us: we make our request to you, in the name of Christ, be at peace with God.
  • 2 Cor 6:1 : 1 We then, working together with God, make our request to you not to take the grace of God to no purpose.
  • 2 Cor 7:4 : 4 My words to you are without fear, I am full of pride on account of you: I have great comfort and joy in all our troubles.
  • 2 Cor 10:2 : 2 Yes, I make my request to you, so that when I am with you I may not have to make use of the authority which may be needed against some to whom we seem to be walking after the flesh.
  • 2 Cor 10:7 : 7 Give attention to the things which are before you. If any man seems to himself to be Christ's, let him keep in mind that we are as much Christ's as he is.
  • Rom 15:15 : 15 But I have, in some measure, less fear in writing to you to put these things before you again, because of the grace which was given to me by God,
  • Ps 45:4 : 4 And go nobly on in your power, because you are good and true and without pride; and your right hand will be teaching you things of fear.
  • Isa 42:3-4 : 3 He will not let a crushed stem be quite broken, and he will not let a feebly burning light be put out: he will go on sending out the true word to the peoples. 4 His light will not be put out, and he will not be crushed, till he has given the knowledge of the true God to the earth, and the sea-lands will be waiting for his teaching.
  • Matt 12:19-20 : 19 His coming will not be with fighting or loud cries; and his voice will not be lifted up in the streets. 20 The crushed stem will not be broken by him; and the feebly burning light will he not put out, till he has made righteousness overcome all.
  • Matt 21:5 : 5 Say to the daughter of Zion, See, your King comes to you, gentle and seated on an ass, and on a young ass.
  • Acts 8:32 : 32 Now the place in the book where he was reading was this: He was taken, like a sheep, to be put to death; and as a lamb is quiet when its wool is being cut, so he made no sound:
  • Rom 10:20 : 20 And Isaiah says without fear, Those who were not searching for me made discovery of me; and I was seen by those whose hearts were turned away from me.

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