And this I require you, that I need not to be bold when I am present, with that same confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which esteem us as though we walked [a]according to the flesh.

[b]Nevertheless, though we walk in the flesh, yet we do not war after the flesh.

(For the weapons of our warfare are not [c]carnal, but mighty through [d]God, to cast down holds.)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 10:2 As though I had no other aid and help than that which outwardly I seem to have: and therefore Paul setteth his flesh, that is, his weak condition and state, against his spiritual and Apostolic dignity.
  2. 2 Corinthians 10:3 Secondly he witnesseth, that although he be like unto other men, yet he cometh furnished with that strength, which no holds of man can match, whether they resist by craft and deceit, or by force and might, because he warrioreth with divine weapons.
  3. 2 Corinthians 10:4 Are not such as men get them authority withall one of another, and do great acts.
  4. 2 Corinthians 10:4 Stand upon that infinite power of God.

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