2 Corinthians 10:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord has 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 has given me for edification, and not for destruction.
  • 2 Cor 13:2-3 : 2 I told you before, and foretell now, as if I were present the second time; and being absent now I write to those who have sinned in the past, and to all others, that if I come again, I will not spare: 3 Since you seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, who toward you 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 that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy; for by faith you stand.
  • 2 Cor 7:14 : 14 For if I have boasted anything to him about you, I am not ashamed; but as we spoke all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found to be true.
  • 2 Cor 12:6 : 6 For though I would desire to boast, I shall not be a fool; for I will speak the truth. But now I refrain, lest anyone should think of me above that which he sees me to be, or that he hears of me.
  • Gal 1:1 : 1 Paul, an apostle, not from men nor by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead,
  • 2 Tim 1:12 : 12 For this reason 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 what I have committed to Him until that day.

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

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

    11Let such a person consider this, that as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when we are present.

    12For we dare not count ourselves among or compare ourselves with those who commend themselves; but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.

    13But we will not boast beyond our measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God has distributed to us, a measure to reach even to you.

    14For we do not extend ourselves beyond our measure, as though we did not reach to you: for we have come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ:

    15Not boasting beyond our measure, that is, in other men's labors; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly,

    16To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man's line of things made ready to our hand.

    17But he who glories, let him glory in the Lord.

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

  • 2 Cor 7:14
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    14For if I have boasted anything to him about you, I am not ashamed; but as we spoke all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found to be true.

  • 2 Cor 5:12-13
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    12For we do not commend ourselves again to you, but give you an opportunity to boast on our behalf, so that you may have an answer for those who boast in appearance and not in heart.

    13For if we are out of our minds, it is for God; or if we are of sound mind, it is for you.

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

    17That which I speak, I speak not according to the Lord, but as if foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.

    18Since many boast according to the flesh, I will also boast.

  • 2 Cor 12:5-6
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    5Of such a one will I boast, yet of myself I will not boast, but in my weaknesses.

    6For though I would desire to boast, I shall not be a fool; for I will speak the truth. But now I refrain, lest anyone should think of me above that which he sees me to be, or that he hears of me.

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

  • 2 Cor 10:7
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    7Do you look on things after the outward appearance? If anyone trusts that he is Christ's, let him think this again in himself, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's.

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

    4Lest if those of Macedonia come with me and find you unprepared, we (not to say you) should be ashamed of this same confident boasting.

  • Phlm 1:8
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    8Therefore, though I might be very bold in Christ to command you to do what is fitting,

  • 2 Cor 8:20
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    20Avoiding this, that anyone should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us;

  • 2 Cor 12:11
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    11I have become a fool in boasting; you have compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you. For in nothing am I behind the very chief apostles, though I am nothing.

  • 2 Cor 10:2
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    2But I plead with you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence by which I think to be bold against some who think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.

  • 2 Cor 11:21
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    21I speak concerning reproach, as though we were weak. But in whatever anyone is bold—I speak foolishly—I am bold also.

  • 1 Cor 9:12
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    12If others are partakers of this right over you, should not we even more? Nevertheless, we have not used this right, but endure all things lest we hinder the gospel of Christ.

  • Rom 15:17-18
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    17Therefore I have reason to glory in Christ Jesus in what pertains to God.

    18For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ has not accomplished through me, in making the Gentiles obedient by word and deed,

  • 2 Cor 11:30
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    30If I must boast, I will boast in the things concerning my weakness.

  • 2 Cor 11:5-7
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    5For I consider that I am not in any way inferior to the very chief apostles.

    6Even though I am unskilled in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been thoroughly revealed among you in all things.

    7Did I commit a sin by humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you the gospel of God freely?

  • 2 Cor 11:12
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    12But what I do, I will continue to do, that I may cut off the opportunity from those who desire an opportunity to be regarded just as we are in the things of which they boast.

  • 2 Thess 3:9
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    9Not because we do not have the right, but to make ourselves an example for you to follow.

  • 2 Cor 8:8
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    8I speak not by commandment, but as a test of the sincerity of your love by the diligence of others.

  • 2 Cor 12:19
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    19Again, do you think that we excuse ourselves to you? We speak before God in Christ, but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edification.

  • 1 Thess 2:6
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    6Nor did we seek glory from men, neither from you nor from others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.

  • 1 Cor 4:6
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    6And these things, brothers, I have applied to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that you may learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, so that none of you be puffed up for one against 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 are honored, but we are despised.

  • 1 Cor 9:15
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    15But I have used none of these things, nor have I written these things that it should be done so to me; for it would be better for me to die than that anyone should make my boasting void.

  • 2 Cor 8:24
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    24Therefore show to them and before the churches the proof of your love and of our boasting on your behalf.

  • 2 Cor 1:12
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    12For 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 conducted ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

  • 2 Tim 1:8
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    8Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me His prisoner, but share in the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;

  • 2 Cor 1:24
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    24Not that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy; for by faith you stand.

  • 1 Cor 4:8
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    8Now you are full, now you are rich! You have reigned as kings without us—and indeed, I wish 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 of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceedingly joyful in all our tribulation.

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

  • Rom 15:15
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    15Nevertheless, brethren, I have written to you more boldly in part, to remind you, because of the grace given to me by God,