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    "chapter": 10
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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "2CO-10:1",
        "verseRef": "2CO.10.1",
        "text": "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:"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "2CO-10:2",
        "verseRef": "2CO.10.2",
        "text": "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."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "2CO-10:3",
        "verseRef": "2CO.10.3",
        "text": "For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh"
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        "n": 4,
        "refId": "2CO-10:4",
        "verseRef": "2CO.10.4",
        "text": "(for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the casting down of strongholds),"
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "2CO-10:5",
        "verseRef": "2CO.10.5",
        "text": "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;"
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "2CO-10:6",
        "verseRef": "2CO.10.6",
        "text": "and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience, when your obedience shall be made full."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "2CO-10:7",
        "verseRef": "2CO.10.7",
        "text": "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."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "2CO-10:8",
        "verseRef": "2CO.10.8",
        "text": "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:"
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "2CO-10:9",
        "verseRef": "2CO.10.9",
        "text": "that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by my letters."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "2CO-10:10",
        "verseRef": "2CO.10.10",
        "text": "For, His letters, they say, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "2CO-10:11",
        "verseRef": "2CO.10.11",
        "text": "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."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "2CO-10:12",
        "verseRef": "2CO.10.12",
        "text": "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."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "2CO-10:13",
        "verseRef": "2CO.10.13",
        "text": "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."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "2CO-10:14",
        "verseRef": "2CO.10.14",
        "text": "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:"
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "2CO-10:15",
        "verseRef": "2CO.10.15",
        "text": "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,"
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "2CO-10:16",
        "verseRef": "2CO.10.16",
        "text": "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."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "2CO-10:17",
        "verseRef": "2CO.10.17",
        "text": "But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "2CO-10:18",
        "verseRef": "2CO.10.18",
        "text": "For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth."
      }
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