2 Corinthians 10:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ Now, even if I boast a little too much of our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for tearing you down, I will not be ashamed of it.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ For even though I boast rather freely about our power and authority, which the Lord gave for your upbuilding and not for demolishing you, yet I shall not be put to shame [for exceeding the truth],

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ 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:

Common English Bible

⁸ Even if I went on to brag about our authority, I wouldn’t be ashamed of it. The Lord gave us that authority to build you up and not to destroy you.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ And if I were even to glory somewhat more about our authority, which the Lord has given to us for your edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ For if also I should boast somewhat more of our power, which the Lord hath given us unto edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed.

2 Corinthians 10:8 Krydshenvisninger

2 Corinthians 1:24

I do not mean to imply that we lord it over your faith; rather, we are workers with you for your joy because you stand firm in faith.

2 Corinthians 10:4

for the weapons of our warfare are not merely human, but they have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments

2 Corinthians 10:9

I do not want to seem as though I am trying to frighten you with my letters.

2 Corinthians 12:19

Have you been thinking all along that we have been defending ourselves before you? We are speaking in Christ before God. Everything we do, beloved, is for the sake of building you up.

2 Corinthians 12:6

But if I wish to boast, I will not be a fool, for I will be speaking the truth. But I refrain from it, so that no one may think better of me than what is seen in me or heard from me,

2 Corinthians 13:10

So I write these things while I am away from you, so that when I come I may not have to be severe in using the authority that the Lord has given me for building up and not for tearing down.

2 Corinthians 13:8

For we cannot do anything against the truth but only for the truth.

2 Corinthians 7:14

For if I have been somewhat boastful about you to him, I was not put to shame, but just as everything we said to you was true, so our boasting to Titus has proved true as well.

2 Corinthians 7:4

I am being completely frank with you; I have great pride in you; I am filled with consolation; I am overjoyed in all our affliction.

Galatians 1:1

Paul an apostle—sent neither by human commission nor from human authorities but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead—

2 Timothy 1:12

and for this reason I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know the one in whom I have put my trust, and I am sure that he is able to guard until that day the deposit I have entrusted to him.