2 Corinthians 10:8

King James Version 1611 (Original)

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:

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  • 2 Cor 13:10 : 10 Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.
  • 2 Cor 13:2-3 : 2 I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare: 3 Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.
  • 2 Cor 13:8 : 8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
  • 2 Cor 1:24 : 24 Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.
  • 2 Cor 7:14 : 14 For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.
  • 2 Cor 12:6 : 6 For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.
  • Gal 1:1 : 1 Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;)
  • 2 Tim 1:12 : 12 For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.

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  • 2 Cor 10:9-17
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    9 That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.

    10 For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.

    11 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.

    12 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.

    13 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.

    14 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:

    15 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,

    16 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.

    17 But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

  • 2 Cor 13:10
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    10 Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.

  • 2 Cor 7:14
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    14 For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.

  • 2 Cor 5:12-13
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    12 For we commend not ourselves again unto you, but give you occasion to glory on our behalf, that ye may have somewhat to answer them which glory in appearance, and not in heart.

    13 For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for your cause.

  • 2 Cor 11:16-18
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    16 I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.

    17 That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.

    18 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.

  • 2 Cor 12:5-6
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    5 Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities.

    6 For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.

  • 2 Cor 11:10
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    10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.

  • 2 Cor 10:7
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    7 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.

  • 2 Cor 9:3-4
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    3 Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, ye may be ready:

    4 Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting.

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    8 Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient,

  • 2 Cor 8:20
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    20 Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us:

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    11 I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.

  • 2 Cor 10:2
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    2 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.

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    21 I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.

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    12 If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.

  • Rom 15:17-18
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    17 I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God.

    18 For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed,

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    30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.

  • 2 Cor 11:5-7
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    5 For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.

    6 But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.

    7 Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?

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    12 But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.

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    9 Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.

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    8 I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.

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    19 Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.

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    6 Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.

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    6 And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.

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    15 But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.

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    24 Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.

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    12 For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

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    8 Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;

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    24 Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.

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    8 Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.

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    4 Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation.

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    2 If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.

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    15 Nevertheless, brethren, I have written the more boldly unto you in some sort, as putting you in mind, because of the grace that is given to me of God,