2 Corinthians 10
10
Tearing Down Strongholds
1Now I, Paul, appeal myself to you by the meekness and gentleness of Messiah—I who am humble when face to face with you, but bold toward you when far away.
2I beg of you that when I am present I won’t need to be bold with the courage I consider showing against some who judge us as walking in the flesh.
3For though we walk in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh.
4For the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly but powerful through God for the tearing down of strongholds. We are tearing down false arguments
5and every high-minded thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God. We are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Messiah—
6ready to punish all disobedience, whenever your obedience is complete.
7Look at what is before your eyes. If anyone is confident in himself that he belongs to Messiah, let him reconsider that just as he belongs to Messiah, so also do we.
8For even if I boast a little more about our authority—which the Lord gave for building you up and not for tearing you down—I will not be put to shame.
9Not that I would try to terrify you by my letters—
10for they say, “His letters are weighty and strong, but his presence in person is weak and his speech of no account.”
11Let such a person consider this, that what we are in word through letters when we are absent, we also are in action when we are present.
12For we do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But when they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they have no understanding.
13But we will not boast beyond limits, but within the limits of the area that God has assigned to us—to reach even as far as you.
14We are not extending ourselves too far, as if we did not reach you—for we did come even as far as to you with the Good News of Messiah.
15Neither are we boasting beyond limits based on the labors of others, but we have hope while your faith is growing for our area among you to be greatly enlarged—
16so that we may proclaim the Good News even to regions beyond you, not boasting about what has been accomplished in another’s area.
17But “let him who boasts boast in the Lord.”
18For it Is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends.
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2 Corinthians 10
10
1Now I myself, Sha'ul, appeal to you gently in Moshiach and in his anavah (humility) I who am peh el peh (panim el panim, face to face) “lowly” among you#10:1 1C 2:3 but have “chutzpah” with you when absent.#10:1 1C 2:4; 7:8
2Now I beg of you that when I am present I may not have to show enough chutzpah to oppose certain persons,#10:2 1C 4:21 the ones considering us to act according to the standards of the basar of the Olam Hazeh.
3For though walking in basar, we war not according to the basar,
4For the weapons of our warfare are not of the basar,#10:4 Ep 6:13-17 but full of ko'ach through Hashem to the overthrowing of strongholds, reasonings,#10:4 Jer 1:10; 23:29
5And every high minded thing rising up against the da'as of Hashem, and leading captive every machshavah (thought) into the mishma'at of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach,#10:5 Isa 2:11,12
6And prepared to discipline all disobedience whenever your mishma'at (obedience) is completed.#10:6 2C 2:9
7You look at things according to outward appearance. If anyone has persuaded himself that he belongs to Moshiach, have zikaron (recollection) of this: as he is of Moshiach, so also are we.
8Now even if I should glory a little too much#10:8 2C 12:6 in our samchut (authority)#10:8 2C 13:10 [as Shlichim of Moshiach] which Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu gave for building you up and not for tearing you down, I will make good my claim.#10:8 Jer 1:10
9I did not intend to seem as if my iggrot were meant to frighten you.
10For they say, “His iggrot indeed are weighty and strong but his physical presence is weak and his shprach (diction), as far as rhetoric is concerned, is despicable.”
11Let such a one consider this: that the dvar we speak through iggrot when absent will become action we will very well do when present!#10:11 2C 13:2,10
12For we dare not to make a geder (classification) for ourselves or to compare ourselves with some of the ones commending themselves,#10:12 2C 3:1; 5:12 but when they measure themselves by the standard of one another or compare themselves with one another, they do not show seichel.
13But we will not boast out of our depth, but will be shomer to keep within the sadeh (field) Hashem has apportioned to us#10:13 Ro 12:3 which reached out even as far as you.#10:13 Ga 2:7 8
14For we were not getting out of our depth when we reached even as far as you. We were the chalutzim (pioneers) who came with the Besuras HaGeulah of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.
15We do not boast out of our depth, that is, in the labor of others; but tikvateinu is that, as your emunah grows, our sphere of Shlichus (Divine mission) among you will also be enlarged,
16So that we may abundantly proclaim the Besuras HaGeulah to the regions beyond you, without boasting in someone elseʼs Messianic chalutz accomplishments.
17But HAMMIT HALLELYIT HALLEL; (“The one boasting let him boast” in the L-rd);#10:17 Jer 9:23,24; Ps 34:2; 44:8; 1C 1:13
18For it is not the one commending himself that has the haskama (approval), but it is the one to whom [Moshiach] Adoneinu gives the haskama.#10:18 1C 4:4-5
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