10:1 Now I Paul myself entreat you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am of good courage toward you:
10:1 Now I, Paul, myself urge you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ-- I who am meek when face to face with you, but bold toward you when absent!

10:2 yea, I beseech you, that I may not when present show courage with the confidence wherewith I count to be bold against some, who count of us as if we walked according to the flesh.
10:2 I ask that when I am present I may not be bold with the confidence with which I propose to be courageous against some, who regard us as if we walked according to the flesh.

10:3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh
10:3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh,

10:4 (for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the casting down of strongholds),
10:4 for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses.

10:5 casting down imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;
10:5 [We are] destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and [we are] taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ,

10:6 and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience, when your obedience shall be made full.
10:6 and we are ready to punish all disobedience, whenever your obedience is complete.

10:7 Ye look at the things that are before your face. If any man trusteth in himself that he is Christ's, let him consider this again with himself, that, even as he is Christ's, so also are we.
10:7 You are looking at things as they are outwardly. If anyone is confident in himself that he is Christ's, let him consider this again within himself, that just as he is Christ's, so also are we.

10:8 For though I should glory somewhat abundantly concerning our authority (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down), I shall not be put to shame:
10:8 For even if I should boast somewhat further about our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for destroying you, I shall not be put to shame,

10:9 that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by my letters.
10:9 for I do not wish to seem as if I would terrify you by my letters.

10:10 For, His letters, they say, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account.
10:10 For they say, "His letters are weighty and strong, but his personal presence is unimpressive, and his speech contemptible."

10:11 Let such a one reckon this, that, what we are in word by letters when we are absent, such (are we) also in deed when we are present.
10:11 Let such a person consider this, that what we are in word by letters when absent, such persons [we are] also in deed when present.

10:12 For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with certain of them that commend themselves: but they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.
10:12 For we are not bold to class or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves; but when they measure themselves by themselves, and compare themselves with themselves, they are without understanding.

10:13 But we will not glory beyond (our) measure, but according to the measure of the province which God apportioned to us as a measure, to reach even unto you.
10:13 But we will not boast beyond [our] measure, but within the measure of the sphere which God apportioned to us as a measure, to reach even as far as you.

10:14 For we stretch not ourselves overmuch, as though we reached not unto you: for we came even as far as unto you in the gospel of Christ:
10:14 For we are not overextending ourselves, as if we did not reach to you, for we were the first to come even as far as you in the gospel of Christ;

10:15 not glorying beyond (our) measure, (that is,) in other men's labors; but having hope that, as your faith groweth, we shall be magnified in you according to our province unto (further) abundance,
10:15 not boasting beyond [our] measure, [that is,] in other men's labors, but with the hope that as your faith grows, we shall be, within our sphere, enlarged even more by you,

10:16 so as to preach the gospel even unto the parts beyond you, (and) not to glory in another's province in regard of things ready to our hand.
10:16 so as to preach the gospel even to the regions beyond you, [and] not to boast in what has been accomplished in the sphere of another.

10:17 But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
10:17 But HE WHO BOASTS, LET HIM BOAST IN THE LORD.

10:18 For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.
10:18 For not he who commends himself is approved, but whom the Lord commends.