2 Corinthians 10:8

World English Bible (2000)

For though I should boast somewhat abundantly concerning our authority, (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down) I will not be disappointed,

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  • 2 Cor 13:10 : 10 For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not deal sharply when present, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for tearing down.
  • 2 Cor 13:2-3 : 2 I have said beforehand, and I do say beforehand, as when I was present the second time, so now, being absent, I write to those who have sinned before now, and to all the rest, that, if I come again, I will not spare; 3 seeing that you seek a proof of Christ who speaks in me; who toward you is not weak, but is powerful 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 that we have lordship over your faith, but are fellow workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith.
  • 2 Cor 7:14 : 14 For if in anything I have boasted to him on your behalf, I was not disappointed. But as we spoke all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth.
  • 2 Cor 12:6 : 6 For if I would desire to boast, I will not be foolish; for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, so that no man may think more of me than that which he sees in me, or hears from me.
  • Gal 1:1 : 1 Paul, an apostle (not from men, neither through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead),
  • 2 Tim 1:12 : 12 For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

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  • 2 Cor 10:9-17
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    9that I may not seem as if I desire to terrify you by my letters.

    10For, "His letters," they say, "are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised."

    11Let 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.

    12For 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.

    13But we will not boast beyond proper limits, but within the boundaries with which God appointed to us, which reach even to you.

    14For 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,

    15not 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,

    16so as to preach the Good News even to the parts beyond you, not to boast in what someone else has already done.

    17But "he who boasts, let him boast in the Lord."

  • 2 Cor 13:10
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    10For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not deal sharply when present, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for tearing down.

  • 2 Cor 7:14
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    14For if in anything I have boasted to him on your behalf, I was not disappointed. But as we spoke all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth.

  • 2 Cor 5:12-13
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    12For we are not commending ourselves to you again, but speak as giving you occasion of boasting on our behalf, that you may have something to answer those who boast in appearance, and not in heart.

    13For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God. Or if we are of sober mind, it is for you.

  • 2 Cor 11:16-18
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    16I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little.

    17That which I speak, I don't speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.

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

  • 2 Cor 12:5-6
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    5On behalf of such a one I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except in my weaknesses.

    6For if I would desire to boast, I will not be foolish; for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, so that no man may think more of me than that which he sees in me, or hears from me.

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

  • 2 Cor 10:7
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    7Do 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 also we are Christ's.

  • 2 Cor 9:3-4
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    3But I have sent the brothers that our boasting on your behalf may not be in vain in this respect, that, just as I said, you may be prepared,

    4so that I won't by any means, if there come with me any of Macedonia and find you unprepared, we (to say nothing of you) should be disappointed in this confident boasting.

  • Phlm 1:8
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    8Therefore, though I have all boldness in Christ to command you that which is appropriate,

  • 2 Cor 8:20
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    20We are avoiding this, that any man should blame us concerning this abundance which is administered by us.

  • 2 Cor 12:11
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    11I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for in nothing was I inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

  • 2 Cor 10:2
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    2Yes, 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.

  • 2 Cor 11:21
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    21I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet however any is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.

  • 1 Cor 9:12
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    12If others partake of this right over you, don't we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.

  • Rom 15:17-18
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    17I have therefore my boasting in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God.

    18For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

  • 2 Cor 11:30
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    30If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness.

  • 2 Cor 11:5-7
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    5For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.

    6But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things.

    7Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God's Good News free of charge?

  • 2 Cor 11:12
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    12But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we.

  • 2 Thess 3:9
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    9not because we don't have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.

  • 2 Cor 8:8
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    8I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

  • 2 Cor 12:19
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    19Again, do you think that we are excusing ourselves to you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying.

  • 1 Thess 2:6
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    6nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.

  • 1 Cor 4:6
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    6Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.

  • 1 Cor 4:10
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    10We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

  • 1 Cor 9:15
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    15But I have used none of these things, and I don't write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.

  • 2 Cor 8:24
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    24Therefore show the proof of your love to them in front of the assemblies, and of our boasting on your behalf.

  • 2 Cor 1:12
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    12For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

  • 2 Tim 1:8
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    8Therefore don't be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,

  • 2 Cor 1:24
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    24Not that we have lordship over your faith, but are fellow workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith.

  • 1 Cor 4:8
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    8You are already filled. You have already become rich. You have come to reign without us. Yes, and I wish that you did reign, that we also might reign with you.

  • 2 Cor 7:4
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    4Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction.

  • 1 Cor 9:2
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    2If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

  • Rom 15:15
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    15But I write the more boldly to you in part, as reminding you, because of the grace that was given to me by God,