1 Now I Sha’ul [desired] myself beseech (to call upon; appeal; beg) you by the meekness and gentleness of Moshiach [Messiah], who in presence [am] base among you, but being absent am bold toward you:

2 But I beseech (to call upon; appeal; beg) [you], that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, which 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 (of the flesh, sensual), but mighty through God-The Father to the pulling down of strong holds;)

5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God-The Father, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Moshiach [Messiah];

6 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.

7 Do you2f look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Moshiach [Messiah]’s, let him of himself think this again, that, as he [is] Moshiach [Messiah]’s, even so [are] we Moshiach [Messiah]’s.

8 For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord - Kurios has 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-The Father has 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 (joyful message) of Moshiach [Messiah]:

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 (joyful message) 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 glories, let him glory in the Lord - Kurios.

18 For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord - Kurios commendeth.