\subsection{II Corinthians 10} \VS{1} So I myself Paul call upon you through the gentleness and fairness of Christ, [I] who in presence [am] humble among you, but being absent I am bold toward you: \VS{2} But I request that, being present, [I] not be bold with the confidence with which I reckoned to be courageous towards some who reckon us as walking according to the flesh. \VS{3} For [though] walking in [the] flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. \VS{4} For the weapons of our warfare [are] not fleshly, but powerful through God towards tearing-down of strongholds, tearing-down reasonings, \VS{5} and every exaltation rising up against the knowledge of Christ, and taking captive every thought to the obedience of Christ, \VS{6} and having in readiness to avenge all disobedience, when your obedience is made full. \VS{7} You look according to appearance. If any is persuaded to himself to be of Christ, let\fnImperative{} him be reckoning this again upon himself, that just as he [is] of Christ, thus also [are] we. \VS{8} For if I boast something more concerning our authority, which the Lord gave for upbuilding and not for your down-tearing, I will not be shamed, \VS{9} in order that I now seem as if to be frightening you through letters. \VS{10} For the letters on the one hand, they say, are weighty and strong, but on the other hand his bodily presence [is] weak and [his] word despicable. \VS{11} Let\fnImperative{} such [men] be reckoning this, that such as we are by word through letters being absent, such also [are we] being present in deed. \VS{12} For we dare not to be classing or comparing ourselves with some commending themselves, but they measuring themselves among themselves and comparing themselves with themselves are not understanding. \VS{13} But we will not boast to [things] immeasurable, but according to the measure of the limits of [the] measure which God distributed to us, [a measure] to reach even to you. \VS{14} For not as not reaching to you do we stretch beyond ourselves, for even to you have we arrived in the good-news of Christ, \VS{15} not in the unmeasurable [things] boasting in another's labor, but having hope, your faith increasing in you, to be greatly enlarged according to our limits \VS{16} to good news the [regions] beyond you, not in another's limits for the ready boast. \VS{17} But the [one] boasting, let\fnImperative{} him be boasting in [the] Lord. \VS{18} For not the [one] commending himself is approved, but whom the Lord commends.