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   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
   Day 337, 3 December 2025 - 10th Day of Advent   
      
   1) 2 Corinthians 10 ,  2 Corinthians 11 ,  2 Corinthians 12 ,  2 Corinthians 13   
      
   2 Corinthians 10   
      
   Paul Defends His Ministry   
      
   1 (Mt 11:29; 2Co 10:10) Now I, Paul, who am lowly in presence among you but   
   bold toward you while absent, appeal to you by the meekness and gentleness   
   of Christ.   
   2 (2Co 13:2; 13:10) I beg you that when I am present, I might not have to be   
   bold with that confidence by which I intend to be bold against some, who   
   think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.   
   3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh.   
   4 (Jer 1:10; 2Co 6:7) For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but   
   mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds,   
   5 (Isa 2:11-12; 1Co 1:19) casting down imaginations and every high thing that   
   exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into   
   captivity to the obedience of Christ,   
   6 (2Co 2:9; 7:15) and being ready to punish all disobedience   
   when your obedience is complete.   
   7 (2Co 5:12; Jn 7:24; 1Co 14:37) Do you look at things from the outward   
   appearance? If any man trusts that he is Christ's, let him consider again   
   that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's.   
   8 (2Co 13:10) For even if I should boast somewhat more of our authority,   
   which the Lord has given us for edification and not for your destruction,   
   I shall not be ashamed,   
   9 lest I appear to frighten you by my letters.   
   10 (1Co 1:17; 2Co 11:6) "For his letters," they say, "are weighty and   
   powerful, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible."   
   11 Let such a person consider this: that as we are in word by letters   
   when we are absent, we will also be in deed when we are present.   
   12 (2Co 3:1; Pr 26:12) For we dare not count or compare ourselves with those   
   who commend themselves. They who measure themselves by one another   
   and compare themselves with one another are not wise.   
   13 (Ro 15:20) But we will not boast beyond measure, but within the boundaries   
   which God has appointed us, which reach even you.   
   14 (1Co 4:15) For we are not overextending ourselves as though we did not   
   reach you, since we have come to you, preaching the gospel of Christ.   
   15 (Ro 15:20; 2Co 10:13) We are not boasting of things beyond our measure   
   in other men's labors. But we have hope that when your faith is increased,   
   our region shall be greatly enlarged by you,   
   16 to preach the gospel in the regions beyond you and not to boast in another   
   man's accomplishments.   
   17 (1Co 1:31; Jer 9:23-24) But, "Let him who boasts, boast in the Lord."   
   (Jer 9:24.)   
   18 (Ro 2:29; 1Co 4:5) For it is not he who commends himself who is approved,   
   but he whom the Lord commends.   
      
   [1] Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ,   
   who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you:   
   [2] But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that   
   confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as   
   if we walked according to the flesh.   
   [3] For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:   
   [4] (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God   
   to the pulling down of strong holds;)   
   [5] Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself   
   against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to   
   the obedience of Christ;   
   [6] And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your   
   obedience is fulfilled.   
   [7] Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to   
   himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as   
   he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's.   
   [8] For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord   
   hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be   
   ashamed:   
   [9] That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.   
   [10] For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily   
   presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.   
   [11] Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters   
   when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when we are present.   
   [12] For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with   
   some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves,   
   and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.   
   [13] But we will not boast of things without our measure, but according to   
   the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure to reach   
   even unto you.   
   [14] For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached   
   not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel   
   of Christ:   
   [15] Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other men's   
   labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be   
   enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly,   
   [16] To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in   
   another man's line of things made ready to our hand.   
   [17] But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.   
   [18] For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord   
   commendeth.   
      
   2 Corinthians 11   
      
   Paul and the False Apostles   
      
   1 (2Co 5:13; 11:4) I would to God you could bear with me a little in my folly.   
   Indeed, bear with me.   
   2 (Isa 54:5; Hos 2:19-20) For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy. For   
   I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin   
   to Christ.   
   3 (Rev 12:9; Ge 3:4; Jn 8:44) But I fear that somehow, as the serpent   
   deceived Eve through his trickery, so your minds might be led astray   
   from the simplicity that is in Christ.   
   4 (1Co 3:11; Gal 1:6-8) For if he who comes preaches another Jesus,   
   whom we have not preached, or if you receive another spirit, which   
   you have not received, or another gospel, which you have not accepted,   
   you might submit to it readily enough.   
   5 For I think I am not in any way inferior to the most eminent   
   of the apostles.   
   6 (1Co 1:17; Eph 3:4) Even though I am unpolished in speech, yet I am not   
   in knowledge. All things about us have been thoroughly revealed to you.   
   7 (2Co 12:13) Did I commit a sin in abasing myself that you might be exalted,   
   because I preached to you the gospel of God free of charge?   
   8 I robbed other churches by accepting wages from them to serve you.   
   9 (1Th 2:6) Furthermore, when I was present with you and was lacking,   
   I was a burden to no one. For the brothers who came from Macedonia   
   supplied what I lacked. In all things I have kept myself from being   
   burdensome to you, and so will I keep myself.   
   10 (Ro 9:1; Ac 18:12) As the truth of Christ is in me, no one shall stop   
   me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.   
   11 (2Co 12:15; 12:2-3) Why? Because I do not love you? God knows.   
      
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