2 Corinthians 10

¹And I, Paul, myself, do call upon you — through the meekness and gentleness of the Christ — who in presence, indeed [am] humble among you, and being absent, have courage toward you,

²and 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;

³for walking in the flesh, not according to the flesh do we war,

⁴for the weapons of our warfare [are] not fleshly, but powerful to God for bringing down of strongholds,

⁵reasonings bringing down, and every high thing lifted up against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of the Christ,

⁶and being in readiness to avenge every disobedience, whenever your obedience may be fulfilled.

⁷The 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;

⁸for 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;

⁹that 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.'

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