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2 Corinthians 10:1

Bible in Basic English 1965

Now I, Paul, myself make request to you by the quiet and gentle behaviour of Christ, I who am poor in spirit when with you, but who say what is in my mind to you without fear when I am away from you:

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And go nobly on in your power, because you are good and true and without pride; and your right hand will be teaching you things of fear.

Be full of joy, O daughter of Zion; give a glad cry, O daughter of Jerusalem: see, your king comes to you: he is upright and has overcome; gentle and seated on an ass, on a young ass.

Take my yoke on you and become like me, for I am gentle and without pride, and you will have rest for your souls;

Say to the daughter of Zion, See, your King comes to you, gentle and seated on an ass, and on a young ass.

Now the place in the book where he was reading was this: He was taken, like a sheep, to be put to death; and as a lamb is quiet when its wool is being cut, so he made no sound:

And Isaiah says without fear, Those who were not searching for me made discovery of me; and I was seen by those whose hearts were turned away from me.

For this reason I make request to you, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you will give your bodies as a living offering, holy, pleasing to God, which is the worship it is right for you to give him.

But I have, in some measure, less fear in writing to you to put these things before you again, because of the grace which was given to me by God,

And I was with you without strength, in fear and in doubt.

We are made to seem foolish for Christ, but you are wise in Christ; we are feeble, but you are strong; you have glory, but we have shame.

What is your desire? is my coming to be with punishment, or is it to be in love and a gentle spirit?

For his letters, they say, have weight and are strong; but in body he is feeble, and his way of talking has little force.

Yes, I make my request to you, so that when I am with you I may not have to make use of the authority which may be needed against some to whom we seem to be walking after the flesh.

Give attention to the things which are before you. If any man seems to himself to be Christ's, let him keep in mind that we are as much Christ's as he is.

I say this by way of shaming ourselves, as if we had been feeble. But if anyone puts himself forward I am talking like a foolish person, I will do the same.

If I have to take credit to myself, I will do so in the things in which I am feeble.

On account of such a one I will have glory: for myself I will take no glory, but only in my feeble body.

Having then such a hope, we keep nothing back,

So we are the representatives of Christ, as if God was making a request to you through us: we make our request to you, in the name of Christ, be at peace with God.

We then, working together with God, make our request to you not to take the grace of God to no purpose.

My words to you are without fear, I am full of pride on account of you: I have great comfort and joy in all our troubles.

But you have knowledge that with a feeble body I was preaching the good news to you the first time;

See, I Paul say to you, that if you undergo circumcision, Christ will be of no use to you.

For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles,

I then, the prisoner in the Lord, make this request from my heart, that you will see that your behaviour is a credit to the position which God's purpose has given you,

Let your gentle behaviour be clear to all men. The Lord is near.

If you keep yourselves safely based in the faith, not moved from the hope of the good news which came to you, and which was given to every living being under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

These words of love to you at the end are in my writing, Paul's writing, and this is the mark of every letter from me.

I, Paul, writing this myself, say, I will make payment to you: and I do not say to you that you are in debt to me even for your life.

Still, because of love, in place of an order, I make a request to you, I, Paul, an old man and now a prisoner of Christ Jesus:

My loved ones, I make this request with all my heart, that, as those for whom this world is a strange country, you will keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh which make war against the soul;

I, John, your brother, who have a part with you in the trouble and the kingdom and the quiet strength of Jesus, was in the island which is named Patmos, for the word of God and the witness of Jesus.




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