2 Corinthians 10:8

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Perhaps I boast a little too much about the authority that the Lord gave me to help you and not to hurt you. Yet I am not embarrassed to boast.

Cross References

2 Corinthians 1:24

We are not bosses who tell you what to believe. We are working with you to make you glad, because your faith is strong.

2 Corinthians 10:4

or fight our battles with the weapons of this world. Instead, we use God's power that can destroy fortresses. We destroy arguments

2 Corinthians 10:9

And I am not trying to scare you with my letters.

2 Corinthians 12:19

Have you been thinking all along that we have been defending ourselves to you? Actually, we have been speaking to God as followers of Christ. But, my friends, we did it all for your good.

2 Corinthians 12:6

Yet even if I did boast, I would not be foolish. I would simply be speaking the truth. But I will try not to say too much. That way, none of you will think more highly of me than you should because of what you have seen me do and say.

2 Corinthians 13:10

I am writing these things to you before I arrive. This way I won't have to be hard on you when I use the authority that the Lord has given me. I was given this authority, so that I could help you and not destroy you.

2 Corinthians 13:8

All we can do is to follow the truth and not fight against it.

2 Corinthians 7:14

We had told him how much we thought of you, and you did not disappoint us. Just as we have always told you the truth, so everything we told him about you has also proved to be true.

2 Corinthians 7:4

I trust you completely. I am always proud of you, and I am greatly encouraged. In all my trouble I am still very happy.

Galatians 1:1

From the apostle Paul and from all the Lord's followers with me. I was chosen to be an apostle by Jesus Christ and by God the Father, who raised him from death. No mere human chose or appointed me to this work. To the churches in Galatia.

2 Timothy 1:12

That's why I am suffering now. But I am not ashamed! I know the one I have faith in, and I am sure that he can guard until the last day what he has trusted me with.