2 Corinthians 10:8

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

for even if also anything more abundantly I shall boast concerning our authority, that the Lord gave us for building up, and not for casting you down, I shall not be ashamed;

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Cor 13:10 : 10 because of this, these things -- being absent -- I write, that being present, I may not treat `any' sharply, according to the authority that the Lord did give me for building up, and not for casting down.
  • 2 Cor 13:2-3 : 2 I have said before, and I say `it' before, as being present, the second time, and being absent, now, do I write to those having sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare, 3 since a proof ye seek of the Christ speaking in me, who to you is not infirm, but is powerful in you,
  • 2 Cor 13:8 : 8 for we are not able to do anything against the truth, but for the truth;
  • 2 Cor 1:24 : 24 not that we are lords over your faith, but we are workers together with your joy, for by the faith ye stand.
  • 2 Cor 7:14 : 14 because if anything to him in your behalf I have boasted, I was not put to shame; but as all things in truth we did speak to you, so also our boasting before Titus became truth,
  • 2 Cor 12:6 : 6 for if I may wish to boast, I shall not be a fool, for truth I will say; but I forebear, lest any one in regard to me may think anything above what he doth see me, or doth hear anything of me;
  • Gal 1:1 : 1 Paul, an apostle -- not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who did raise him out of the dead --
  • 2 Tim 1:12 : 12 for which cause also these things I suffer, but I am not ashamed, for I have known in whom I have believed, and have been persuaded that he is able that which I have committed to him to guard -- to 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 through the letters,

    10 `because the letters indeed -- saith one -- `are' weighty and strong, and the bodily presence weak, and the speech despicable.'

    11 This one -- let him reckon thus: that such as we are in word, through letters, being absent, such also, being present, `we are' in deed.

    12 For we do not make bold to rank or to compare ourselves with certain of those commending themselves, but they, among themselves measuring themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are not wise,

    13 and we in regard to the unmeasured things will not boast ourselves, but after the measure of the line that the God of measure did appoint to us -- to reach even unto you;

    14 for not as not reaching to you do we stretch ourselves overmuch, for even unto you did we come in the good news of the Christ,

    15 not boasting of the things not measured, in other men's labours, and having hope -- your faith increasing -- in you to be enlarged, according to our line -- into abundance,

    16 in the `places' beyond you to proclaim good news, not in another's line in regard to the things made ready, to boast;

    17 and he who is boasting -- in the Lord let him boast;

  • 2 Cor 13:10
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    10 because of this, these things -- being absent -- I write, that being present, I may not treat `any' sharply, according to the authority that the Lord did give me for building up, and not for casting down.

  • 2 Cor 7:14
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    14 because if anything to him in your behalf I have boasted, I was not put to shame; but as all things in truth we did speak to you, so also our boasting before Titus became truth,

  • 2 Cor 5:12-13
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    12 for not again ourselves do we recommend to you, but we are giving occasion to you of glorifying in our behalf, that ye may have `something' in reference to those glorifying in face and not in heart;

    13 for whether we were beside ourselves, `it was' to God; whether we be of sound mind -- `it is' to you,

  • 2 Cor 11:16-18
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    16 Again I say, may no one think me to be a fool; and if otherwise, even as a fool receive me, that I also a little may boast.

    17 That which I speak, I speak not according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this the confidence of boasting;

    18 since many boast according to the flesh, I also will boast:

  • 2 Cor 12:5-6
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    5 Of such an one I will boast, and of myself I will not boast, except in my infirmities,

    6 for if I may wish to boast, I shall not be a fool, for truth I will say; but I forebear, lest any one in regard to me may think anything above what he doth see me, or doth hear anything of me;

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    10 The truth of Christ is in me, because this boasting shall not be stopped in regard to me in the regions of Achaia;

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    7 The things in presence do ye see? if any one hath trusted in himself to be Christ's, this let him reckon again from himself, that according as he is Christ's, so also we `are' Christ's;

  • 2 Cor 9:3-4
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    3 and I sent the brethren, that our boasting on your behalf may not be made vain in this respect; that, according as I said, ye may be ready,

    4 lest if Macedonians may come with me, and find you unprepared, we -- we may be put to shame (that we say not -- ye) in this same confidence of boasting.

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    8 Wherefore, having in Christ much boldness to command thee that which is fit --

  • 2 Cor 8:20
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    20 avoiding this, lest any one may blame us in this abundance that is ministered by us,

  • 2 Cor 12:11
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    11 I have become a fool -- boasting; ye -- ye did compel me; for I ought by you to have been commended, for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles -- even if I am nothing.

  • 2 Cor 10:2
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    2 and I beseech `you', that, being present, I may not have courage, with the confidence with which I reckon to be bold against certain reckoning us as walking according to the flesh;

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    21 in reference to dishonour I speak, how that we were weak, and in whatever any one is bold -- in foolishness I say `it' -- I also am bold.

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    12 if others do partake of the authority over you -- not we more? but we did not use this authority, but all things we bear, that we may give no hindrance to the good news of the Christ.

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    17 I have, then, a boasting in Christ Jesus, in the things pertaining to God,

    18 for I will not dare to speak anything of the things that Christ did not work through me, to obedience of nations, by word and deed,

  • 2 Cor 11:30
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    30 if to boast it behoveth `me', of the things of my infirmity I will boast;

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    5 for I reckon that I have been nothing behind the very chiefest apostles,

    6 and even if unlearned in word -- yet not in knowledge, but in every thing we were made manifest in all things to you.

    7 The sin did I do -- myself humbling that ye might be exalted, because freely the good news of God I did proclaim to you?

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    12 and what I do, I also will do, that I may cut off the occasion of those wishing an occasion, that in that which they boast they may be found according as we also;

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    9 not because we have not authority, but that ourselves a pattern we might give to you, to imitate us;

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    8 not according to command do I speak, but because of the diligence of others, and of your love proving the genuineness,

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    19 Again, think ye that to you we are making defence? before God in Christ do we speak; and the all things, beloved, `are' for your up-building,

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    6 nor seeking of men glory, neither from you nor from others, being able to be burdensome, as Christ's apostles.

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    6 And these things, brethren, I did transfer to myself and to Apollos because of you, that in us ye may learn not to think above that which hath been written, that ye may not be puffed up one for one against the other,

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    10 we `are' fools because of Christ, and ye wise in Christ; we `are' ailing, and ye strong; ye glorious, and we dishonoured;

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    15 And I have used none of these things; neither did I write these things that it may be so done in my case, for `it is' good for me rather to die, than that any one may make my glorying void;

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    24 the shewing therefore of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf, to them shew ye, even in the face of the assemblies.

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    8 therefore thou mayest not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but do thou suffer evil along with the good news according to the power of God,

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    24 not that we are lords over your faith, but we are workers together with your joy, for by the faith ye stand.

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    8 Already ye are having been filled, already ye were rich, apart from us ye did reign, and I would also ye did reign, that we also with you may reign together,

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    4 great `is' my freedom of speech unto you, great my glory on your behalf; I have been filled with the comfort, I overabound with the joy on all our tribulation,

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