2 Corinthians 10:7-12

English Standard Version

^7 (A)Look at what is before your eyes. ^(B)If anyone is confident that he is Christ's, let him remind himself that just as ^(C)he is Christ's, ^(D)so also are we. ⁸ For even if I boast a little too much of ^(E)our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for destroying you, I will not be ashamed. ⁹ I do not want to appear to be frightening you with my letters. ¹⁰ For they say, “His letters are weighty and strong, but ^(F)his bodily presence is weak, and ^(G)his speech of no account.” ¹¹ Let such a person understand that what we say by letter when absent, we do when present. ¹² Not that we dare to classify or ^(H)compare ourselves with some of those who ^(I)are commending themselves. But when they measure themselves by one another and compare themselves with one another, they are ^(J)without understanding.